It’s easy to get caught up in our jobs, work, lives,  and everything that’s not going quite right, but it’s not so easy, to stop and look around and realize just how good we have it.  I hope you’re all having a great week and have lots to be grateful for…

You can ask a dog to stay a million times, but when you finally give up and stop asking, that’s when they do exactly what you want…  Thank you Olive, you really are the best…

I am so honored to have Cici and Ben’s engagement session featured on the COUTUREcolorado wedding blog.  A big thank you to Laura of COUTUREcolorado for the feature, and an equally big thank you to Cici, Ben, and Rupert for being such amazing models…  Just click the image to be taken to the feature on the COUTUREcolorado blog…

The older and wiser I become,  the more I think that Mothers and Fathers Day should be more than just a day.  I mean,  what are we really celebrating.  We’re celebrating not just a person, but a person who, with no prior training or certification, no idea what they were getting into, raised us,  from the size of a football, a pooping, eating, screaming football, and helped us grow into the relatively well-adjusted adults we’ve all become.  I don’t think there are enough thank you’s or flowers in the world to convey just how grateful I am.  My mother always said, “I hope that when you grow up you have a kid just like you, then you’ll know what I had to put up with.”  As I look back on my life and what my parents have done for me, I really hope that wish doesn’t come true…  I love you mom, but you should seriously take that wish back…

Elizabeth and Matt flew Bridget and I out to New York City to photograph their Manhattan wedding, and were nice enough to put us up in their Brooklyn loft for the week.  It was an experience we won’t soon forget.  We stood in Times Square staring up at the jumbo-tron, and we stood on top of the Empire state building looking down on the city under a nearly full moon.  We wandered Central Park awestruck by how beautiful it is, and how removed you can feel from the hustle and bustle of the city.  We got on the wrong subway and ended up in Queens, and just as I was beginning to like the city, a pigeon promptly pooped on me and a rabid squirrel tried to rip my finger off to get at an Oreo.  Needless to say, New York City is an incredible place, full of opportunity and a butt load of people.  Which makes it all the more impressive that Elizabeth and Matt found each other in that sea of humanity.  I first met Elizabeth two years ago at her brother Will’s wedding that I was photographing in Chico California.  So when I got her email asking if I would come out and photograph their wedding, the first image that popped into my mind was Elizabeth on the dance floor at Will and April’s wedding.  After that, it was a no-brainer, I knew I had to find a way to photograph this wedding.  I met Matt for the first time on his wedding day.  I knew just from the way the two of them looked at each other that I was lucky to be photographing their wedding.  Elizabeth is definitely the more outgoing one in the couple, Matt is a little quieter, which I can relate to, but he took us all by surprise when his wedding vows that started with a very quiet “I love you” turned into a full on James Brown impersonation with him yelling at the top of his lungs “BABY,  I NEED YOU!!!”  I couldn’t be happier for you two.   I know you have a long and exciting life together ahead of you, and we can’t thank you enough for taking the time to fly us out to New York to photograph your wedding.  We wish you both nothing but happiness…

above right hand photo by Bridget Babcock

above right hand photo by Bridget Babcock

above photo by Bridget Babcock

above photo by Bridget Babcock

above photo by Bridget Babcock

above photo by Bridget Babcock

above photo by Bridget Babcock

above photo by Bridget Babcock

above photo by Bridget Babcock

I was born in California, the love child of an ex-cop and a nurse, both of whom were Canadian, born and bred.  It wasn’t until a couple of years ago when the Canadian government changed their rules on who qualifies as a citizen that the door was opened to my sister and me.  Well I can proudly say that as of today Canada has one more thing that makes it awesome…  ME.

Spring is different things to different people.  To us here in Durango it’s a time to head to the desert before it becomes a blast furnace, it’s a time when we walk the neighborhood taking notice as the fruit trees blossom, it’s paddle-boarding the river and watching as it rises a foot overnight, it’s refilling the propane cylinder so we can start barbecuing again.  What’s spring mean to you?  We’d love to hear about it…  Happy spring everyone…

left hand photo by Bridget…

Rather than get a bunch of toasters for your wedding why not register to get your honeymoon paid for…  I love this idea…  Click the photo below and head on over to Once Wed to find out more…

This past weekend Bridget turned 29.  It ‘s hard to believe, because when we go out she always gets carded while I look increasingly like I might be eligible for the senior discount.  She decided that for her birthday she wanted to go camping, so we headed to the desert, and some of her closest friends joined us to celebrate.  We had six people and 4 dogs, a slack-line, smores, two surprise cakes,  and enough alcohol to kill an elephant, not that you’d want to kill an elephant but you could have.  We had near perfect weather with only the occasional sprinkling of rain.  The rest of the time the sky was it’s typical Colorado bluebird.  If you follow this blog at all you know that Bridget is my better half, and instigator of most of our adventures.  In the time we’ve been together she’s gotten me outside and away from my computer more than I ever would have on my own.  She’s helped me clear my head and realize what’s truly important in life, and for that I can’t thank her enough.  She’s stuck with me even when I got moody, on more than one occasion.  The people who really know Bridget,  know she’s the kindest most genuine person on earth, possibly the galaxy.  I still wake up every morning amazed that I am lucky enough to be waking up next to her.  I am so excited to see what this year holds for us…  I love you MuMu..

above photo by Bridget…

above photo by Bridget…

It’s Easter…  That special time of year when you can buy a chocolate jesus the size of your head, and a giant bunny wanders the neighborhoods laying hard-boiled pastel colored eggs.  Hope you’re all having a great weekend and enjoying the ridiculously warm weather we’re having…It’s all fun and games until someone falls down and busts their nose open…