We met Elvis! Las Vegas Photos #2

Our last night in vegas we decided to go out on the strip and play around! We got a group of photographers and friends together and went out to take some fun night photos. Ross and Kammi are photographers from the Denver area. I met them back in October during a big get together of Colorado photographers. During that same get together I also met Kevin. Kevin also brought a photographer friend along, Nathan, who's from Estes Park and it was great to meet him as well! Well during the convention, a few of us Coloradoans got together and met for breakfast. After talking, a few of us thought it would be fun to go out and shoot together that night!

Let me tell ya, Kammi is such a rockstar- after 2 kids and 7 years she still fits into her wedding dress. I won't even go into that because I am sooo jealous. ;) We managed to get Ross into some nice clothes as well so we could take photos of the two of them together. Brynn got into her new dress from the Betty Page Store, Nikki and I grabbed our gear and we went out wandering to meet Kevin and Nathan! Yes, to answer your question, Kammi did actually climb up onto the side of the New York, New York to get this image. We figured a nice staff member of the hotel would be out in SECONDS to ask us to get down, but it wasn't the case! We were actually shooting there for quite some time! We had the biggest crowd gathered, too. I really should have turned around and taken a picture of the people watching us, but I was so worried about getting the shot before we were asked to stop! At one point, there was even someone with their video camera- filming away excitedly! So I guess we are now featured characters in someones vacation home movie!

Boy oh boy, did we get some funny looks! Actually Kammi couldn't stop laughing at all the congrats she was getting from random people passing by! She's been married for almost 7 years now- but what are you going to say to people?! "Thank you, but we didn't get married in Vegas, we just got dressed up to take photos for fun. See we're photographers and... " you get the picture. ;) So she just left it at "THANKS!" and we'd all giggle. :)
While out that evening we ran into the king! Elvis is still alive and well in Vegas! Now we all assume this, but I can actually say that all the times I've been to Vegas, I actually have not seen one Elvis impersonator! I know- that's just wrong! This guy was definitely a hoot, that's for sure. And we got him to take a couple quick shots with Brynn before he moved on. Thank ya very much..... ;)

Kammi's shoes got a little, well..... disgusting. :) This is why you should never walk around Vegas barefoot! YUCK! hahaha!
Even in the elevator going back to the room, I thought Kammi was adorable. :) I really love the little group of Colorado photographers I have grown to know. Fun times indeed.

Video from Leavin Las Vegas Shoot!

Leavin' Las Vegas Shootout from Patrick Moreau on Vimeo.


So I'm not sure why, but for the longest time I wasn't able to make this work on here, but I got it! :) Awhile back I was showing some images from this shoot and one of mine made it into the video! I just wanted to share a little with everyone and show you what the day was like. Photographers everywhere, models everywhere! It was crazy, and I LOVED IT! Check it out!

Weddings images in Beautiful Colorado

I had the pleasure of meeting up with Anthon & Julia this past week to go out and take their wedding pictures! They were married last fall, but never got any wedding photos! So we took advantage of the beautiful weather and roamed around the Crystal River Valley taking images of the two of them in their wedding attire.
We started off here at the studio where we took some very traditional posed portraits of the two of them in traditional wedding attire from Indonesia. Julia's sister and her husband joined us for some photos as well.
I have to say that it was a lot of fun just driving around in the car, chatting with them, getting to know them better and not having to worry about the stresses of a wedding day. We stopped the car and got out wherever I wanted to and even chased the light a little as it dodged in and out from behind the valley walls as we drove along the river. The drive from Carbondale to Redstone along Hwy 133 is one of my absolute favorites and neither of them had ever been that direction, so I was excited to share it all with them. They are planning to go back again soon and were both amazed at the scenery pretty much the entire way. Good thing I used to be a tour guide in this area! I know all sorts of fun random information we could talk about while driving!! :) haha--- I am so grateful to have met these two. They are such a wonderful couple and I really enjoyed our time together. And I can't wait to try some of their sushi!

Custom Birth Anouncements and Graduation Anouncements

Cards, cards, and more cards! We have been doing so many of these! I'm sure there are other photographers out there doing way more of this than us, but I definitely feel like I have been keeping Crystal (my graphic designer diva!) completely busy with all the announcement designs we've been doing. I wanted to post up a bunch, because they are all so different. I wish my graduation cards looked like this!

Front (4.5x5 folded)

Inside (fold down the middle)

Front (5x7 flat)

Back

Front (5x5 square- folded)

Inside (fold down the middle)

Front (4.5x5 folded)

Inside (fold down the middle)

Back

Quite a few of the high school girls we've been shooting this year are all friends from Basalt High School. We really thought it was important to make sure their cards all looked different. Front (5x7 flat)

Back

Front (4.5x5 folded- horizontal)

Inside (fold across the middle)

Back

Outside (4.5x5 accordian- far right panel is the front)

Inside (the 3 fold marks are shown with lines)

Front (5x7 flat)

Back

Front (5x7 flat)

Back

Front (5x7 flat)

Back

Front (5x7 flat- these girls are twins! :) )

Back

Front (5x7 flat)

Back

So many of our clients don't even know we offer custom cards, so I figured it was one more reason to show a few off! :) As you can tell, there are just so many things you can do with these. Start thinking about your holiday cards!

Engagement Portraits

This past Saturday, I met Nicole & Mark in Grand Junction at Colorado National Monument to take some photos! Now the fun part of the story, is that I got lost trying to get there... (I hate google maps some days) and Nicole forgot her phone at home trying to rush out to meet me! So here I was desperately trying to find my way around and get a hold of them to let them know I was lost, and Nicole was just beside herself because she knew I was probably trying to get in touch with her! Oh what a mess- I told my husband I need a navigation system in my car! haha! But, once we got ourselves connected, it worked out perfectly. The sun came out, the light was great (actually much nicer than it was the hour before) and we had a great time hiking around and taking pictures. We went to some amazing places so I had to make sure to take a couple of images like the one below to show where we were standing. Do you see the tiny Nicole & Mark in this shot? :) Isn't the monument amazing? I could shoot here all the time. Everywhere I looked there was something new and exciting to use as a backdrop.These guys are just so much fun! It was easy to keep all of us laughing and smiling and these two are just so in love. I can't wait for their wedding this June! Thanks so much to both of you for coming out to play with me Saturday and I can't wait to show you the rest of the images!