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The Art of the Pitch | A marketing course by the Jetsetting Family

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  Photography is a highly marketable skill, particularly in this day and age with the insane prevalence of digital marketing.  While my bread and butter is photographing families and providing them with awesomely real photos + films, I also offer commercial photography/videography for brands craving the same authentic type of digital media to market their […]

Denver Family Films | Home is wherever I’m with you

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Denver Family Films. Who remembers last summer when Kayla came to visit and filmed my family? This Spring I traveled across the Atlantic to visit Kayla and her crew, with Chloe in tow.  You can see a few personal images with her in them from May’s 10 on 10. It was exactly what you would […]

24 Hours with the Reagans – Family Photojournalism

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I craved donuts every.SINGLE.day I edited this session.  I managed to only go get donuts 3 times in the last month, but I am not sure I got donuts 3 times in the last year before this.  Editing films where my clients are eating and/or baking is definitely bad for keeping my sweets to a […]

Day in the Life Photography – Take me to the river

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Day in the Life Photography – River Edition Last month I hopped on a plane to head to Missouri to photograph The Waddells.  2 hour plane followed by a 5 hour car ride, of course I was questioning my sanity by the time I arrived.  I shot a few images to document my travels, so […]

Boulder Lifestyle Photography | Project and Feature Updates

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Boulder Lifestyle Photography – Do you follow the lifestyle and storytelling photography projects I participate in?  Get caught up with the links below! A Day in the Life of Chloe on The Stories We Tell Let Them Be Little – Week 31 Cherish This Day – March 28th The Stories We Tell – March 2014 […]

life with chloe | stories from her childhood

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  I have shot many day in the life of Chloe in the last year.  It is one of my favorite shooting exercises, but that is not why I included it as a bonus assignment in the first run of  my workshop Telling Stories with Lifestyle Photography.  As an exercise in storytelling, it is one […]

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