You may remember Sarah and Chris from their engagement photos and engagement guest book that I posted a few months back when there was still snow on the ground. I photographed their wedding a couple weeks ago on June 12th. It was such a lovely event! Sarah & Chris are so fun, excited and animated. All the pieces fell together perfectly for this wedding. The locations, weather, light, flowers, and of course people! Angela of Fresh Designs did the flowers and the reception was held at the beautiful Springhill Pavilion.

Thank you Sarah & Chris and Congratulations!
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I was trying to hold back tears right before the ceremony. The moments between Sarah and her Dad were so amazing and touching!
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I LOVE these moments right after the ceremony! Pure Joy!
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Cali grabbed this shot of me photographing a group.
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This is Cali's shot of Stan, Sarah's dad. He looks so happy and proud in this moment. :)
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The light during toast was amazing! I went crazy shooting! So beautiful and touching!
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Angela Hessinger says:

Spectacular as usual :) You did such an amazing job capturing the pure joy between these two. They are such a stinkin cute couple anyways! And I love the shots of Stan - he was such a sweetheart!

(07.05.09 @ 4:34PM)
Carlie Breen says:

Beautiful Lauren! I had such a wonderful time observing and training with you at this wedding! They were such a fun couple and you definitely captured their bubbly personalities!!!! :)

(07.08.09 @ 8:50AM)
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On day 1 of the Joe Bussink workshop we were invited to hang out in the afternoon at Gary and Melissa Fong's Twin Creeks Ranch. They have an infinite pool that looks like it flows right over the edge to the Okanagan Valley. Its a stunning view. At any rate, a lovely couple Joel and Cora-Lee Cudmore photographers from the area attended the workshop and were enjoying the pool & view as well. They brought their little girl, Ava who, as you can see had a wonderful time playing in the pool. There was an area that is the perfect debth for her to sit, splash and roll around in. I couldn't resist her playful smiles and giggles. Here's what I grabbed of her in about a 5 minute shoot.

Which brings me to my next point, I love photographing lifestyle portraits of babies, children, pregnancy and families. I consider a lifestyle photo session a more relaxed, casual portrait shoot, often outside that captures the nature of you and your family at that point in time.

I am taking lifestyle portrait session bookings all summer so please contact me if you would like to schedule!

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Meggan Carrigg Davidson says:

What a cutie! Lovely portraits Lauren!

(06.08.09 @ 7:21AM)
Meggan Carrigg Davidson says:

What a cutie!!

(06.08.09 @ 7:37AM)
Joel Cudmore says:

Awesome work Lauren! She really had a great time up at the ranch (as you can see :) ) Love the triptych!

(06.10.09 @ 12:19PM)
Joel Cudmore says:

Awesome work Lauren! She really had a great time up at the ranch (as you can see :) ) Love the triptych!

(06.10.09 @ 12:23PM)
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So we photographed 2 models in the afternoon on day one of Joe Bussink's, Defining Moments workshop. His ideas and concepts are to capture the moments as they are unfolding and capture it quickly so you don't miss it and capture it before the subject notices you are photographing them. As we took turns directing the models, were were trying to capture the models not being "camera aware", so not looking at the camera; hopefully when their true self showed through, not necessarily when they were posing. Great practice, but a bit tricky working with models.

Here are a whole bunch of my favorite shots from that afternoon. We chose our 5 best and presented them at critique the next day. Can you guess which 5 I chose?

As you will see, the Twin Creeks Ranch had lots of great locations to shoot! Thanks again to Gary and Melissa for hosting this awesome workshop!

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Larry says:

Breath taking! You never fail to rock the house.

(06.05.09 @ 9:34PM)
Lauren Brown says:

thanks Lar! Right back atcha! Thanks for getting me motivated to go to the workshop. It was a breath of fresh air

(06.06.09 @ 2:25PM)
jennie lynn says:

love all of them! my absolute favorite is no. 3. love the compositions that you created. i like how you took advantage of the lines of the veils, dresses, and girls' bodies. gorgeous!

(06.06.09 @ 2:50PM)
Meggan Carrigg Davidson says:

I absolutely love the reflection shot - so beautiful! I am so happy for you in attending this wonderful workshop! What a great experience!

(06.08.09 @ 7:23AM)
Becky Nicklin says:

Enjoyed the link to Joe Buissink's website. Man, that guy is good!

(06.08.09 @ 11:22PM)
Angela Hessinger says:

Ooooh! Great stuff as usual!!!

(06.15.09 @ 10:08AM)
Melissa Carl says:

UMMM I LOVE THESE! Nice work. It was so nice meeting you and Larry, I am so glad you guys came to the workshop. We are planning our Montana trip so I will let you know when we are in your neck of the woods. Let's float down a river or something :)

(06.15.09 @ 10:26PM)
Cindy Cieluch says:

aloha!!!! these images are RIDICULOUS!!!!!!!!!

my 5 faves are 1, 2, 3, 9, 15. way too hard to pick though. awesome awesome awesome!

remember when i said i hated my wedding pics and wanted you to do a trash the dress? yeah yeah...lets' do it baby!!!

miss you....have a rockin' time in Hawaii. i just got back from Alaska! :)

xoxoxoxo

(06.16.09 @ 6:46PM)
Jeremiah Spray says:

I've always admired his work. This is an awesome series. That must have been a cool experience.

(05.12.10 @ 9:56PM)
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So I've returned from a 5 day trip to Kelowna, British Columbia where Larry and I attended the world famous, Joe Bussink's, Defining Moment's workshop. It took place at Gary and Melissa Fong's Twin Creeks Ranch which overlooks the Okanagan Lake and valley. So beautiful! There were 15 of us at the workshop, many of us from long distances.

A little background: Joe Bussink is one of the top 5 photographer's in the world. He photographed Christina Agulara, Christina Applegate and Jennifer Lopez's weddings, just to name a few. He is an amazingly inspired, talented man with a gift for photography, speaking and marketing and most of all, he is completely passionate about what he does. Needless to say, it was the perfect kick start to my weddings season. I've brought back loads of new techniques, concepts and renewed passion.

Gary Fong, the owner of the ranch where the workshop was held is a world famous retired wedding photographer. He is the founder of Pictage.com, inventor of the Lightshere (a super flash diffuser) and entrepreneur turned millionaire. His wife, Melissa is also a retired wedding photographer. Both incredibly gracious and a blast to be around.


This is a shot of the group. I'm in the middle. See me?

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Gary and Melissa have an amazing entertainment room perfect for workshops!
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This is some of us learing to ride the segways, those cool crazy 2 wheeled vehicle thingys. I must say, there were super fun and intuitive. I would love to have one! Now I have to scrounge up the $8000!  I look really confused in this shot!
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This is Gary being silly! All us workshop attendies were busily shooting the models and this is Gary being a goofball pretending to shoot the models with his iphone.
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This is Joe making a really good point about something.
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Silly Gary again.
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If you want to see more pics, there are lots on Facebook (just friend me), Larry's blog and at Gary's blog.





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You guys remember Guss? Guss is Rhianna and Mike's puppy. These first two shots are Guss last November at our engagement session. He's a Great Dane and oh so handsome, not to mention, quite a handful.



This was Guss then:


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Rhianna was over at the studio last week editing her album and brought little :) Guss over as well. Mikes been wanting some pics of him so we did a really quick impromptu photo session in the snow (Yes, it snowed last week in Bozeman!)

This is Guss now:

He's at least quadrupled in size since I last photographed him, 5 months ago! His head is huge and stands well above my waist. It cracks me up though, he is so big but such a puppy, playful, curious, bull headed and still learning. Rhianna and Mike have done a great job with him! He's definitely their 1st child. :)
 
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