{"id":1203,"date":"2011-02-17T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonathanbetz.com\/blog\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2011-02-17T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:23:09","slug":"winter-family-portraits-at-cheyenne-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonathanbetzphotography.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/17\/winter-family-portraits-at-cheyenne-canyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Family Portraits at Cheyenne Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned in a prior post featuring sessions in Cheyenne Canyon that we had some snowy family sessions there as well, and here they are! \u00a0It&#8217;s amazing how frozen Helen Hunt Falls is this time of year! \u00a0We&#8217;ve had many more sessions late into the year and during the winter months so we&#8217;re seeing familiar places looking much different than usual for us! \u00a0Snow always makes for fun and different portraits, and we have handfuls of favorites from both these sessions that ended at the snowy and frozen falls and upper canyon areas.<\/p>\n<p>The Stanton Family&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Cheyenne Canyon-01\" src=\"http:\/\/jonathanbetzphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Cheyenne-Canyon-012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Cheyenne Canyon-02\" src=\"http:\/\/jonathanbetzphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Cheyenne-Canyon-022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Cheyenne Canyon-03\" src=\"http:\/\/jonathanbetzphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Cheyenne-Canyon-032.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Cheyenne Canyon-04\" src=\"http:\/\/jonathanbetzphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Cheyenne-Canyon-041.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" \/> The Williams Family&#8230;Amanda and I went back and forth on the phone the days before and day of the session. \u00a0She just wasn&#8217;t sure the weather was going to work for her family. \u00a0We always want the session experience to be fun and memorable for our families, and while I didn&#8217;t want to make the decision for her, outdoor sessions give so much more variety and memories than an indoor, studio session. \u00a0Plus, I knew that their whole photography experience prior to us had been commercial studio places where it was an in-out-done whirlwind &#8211; I really wanted them to experience something far different this time! \u00a0She decided to go ahead and give it a go in Cheyenne Canyon. \u00a0I was a little nervous since I obviously didn&#8217;t want to have swayed her to outdoors and then hear they were miserable in colder, somewhat snowy, weather, so I was thrilled when Jon shared how much they loved their session. \u00a0And at the end of the session when they finished above Helen Hunt Falls, Amanda yelled out, &#8220;We&#8217;re not Sears people anymore!!!&#8221; \u00a0I love that!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Cheyenne Canyon-05\" src=\"http:\/\/jonathanbetzphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Cheyenne-Canyon-051.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Cheyenne Canyon-06\" src=\"http:\/\/jonathanbetzphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Cheyenne-Canyon-061.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Cheyenne Canyon-07\" src=\"http:\/\/jonathanbetzphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Cheyenne-Canyon-071.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Cheyenne Canyon-08\" src=\"http:\/\/jonathanbetzphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Cheyenne-Canyon-081.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Cheyenne Canyon-09\" src=\"http:\/\/jonathanbetzphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Cheyenne-Canyon-091.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"800\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathanbetz.com\/portraits\">Jonathan Betz Photography<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pp-fb-like-btn-wrap\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/jonathanbetzphotography.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/17\/winter-family-portraits-at-cheyenne-canyon\/\" data-share=\"false\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-width=\"450\" data-show-faces=\"\" data-action=\"recommend\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned in a prior post featuring sessions in Cheyenne Canyon that we had some snowy family sessions there as well, and here they are! \u00a0It&#8217;s amazing how frozen Helen Hunt Falls is this time of year! \u00a0We&#8217;ve had many more sessions late into the year and during the winter months so we&#8217;re seeing familiar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[60,15,37,38,135,9,105,12],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-children-portraits","tag-cheyenne-canyon","tag-childrens-portraits","tag-colorado-springs-photographer","tag-family-photography","tag-family-photos","tag-family-portraits","tag-groupon","tag-jonathan-betz-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanbetzphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanbetzphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanbetzphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanbetzphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanbetzphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanbetzphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1213,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanbetzphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanbetzphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanbetzphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanbetzphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}