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    Thank you for taking the time to check out the blog of Mandalay Images Photography. I am a wedding and portrait photographer living in Denver, Colorado. This is where you'll find the latest and greatest of what's going on. You'll find my most recent posts on weddings, portraits...and maybe one or two posts of my trusty doggy sidekicks :)

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Golden Newborn Session: Magnolia

I love getting to see client’s families grow; especially when you first do a maternity session and wonder what the little person growing inside will look like.  I caught up with Jennifer and Josh and sweet little Magnolia recently and she is quite something.  We started off with some of them just hanging around the house, which are in all honesty some of my favorites.

Oh to be that flexible again!  Pregnant or not, I can barely bend over to touch my toes let alone get them up to my mouth:)

I’m a sucker for dads with their babies…especially daughters.  They spent some time out in the living room with the cabinet Josh and Jennifer’s dad built to house Magnolia’s toys and the light streaming in was just perfect.

Next we headed up the road to Red Rocks for something a little more nature-y and to get the dogs included too.  I love when people include their pets in a session…they’re family too:)

If there was a competition for World’s Best Spit Bubble Blower, Magnolia would win…hands down.

I had a fantastic time with you guys yet again and can’t wait to see how this little lady grows up!:)

Aren’t I cute?

Remi and Finley couldn’t be more different.  It’s funny how 2 dogs of the same breed can be such polar opposites in the personality department.  It’s been extremely nice here lately and Remi has taken to whining at the door to go out whenever he’s inside.  Not to actually go to the bathroom…but just because he loves being outside.  Birds to point, sticks to chew, sprinkler heads to dig up (really).  Finley on the other hand, goes out to do her thing and wants back inside immediately if her people are inside.  She wants where we want.  Remi could care less where we are:)  Either way, we’re all enjoying the nice weather.

Newness abounds

This has been a project several months in the making.  Yes, months.  I’d been struggling with trying to make my website more ‘me’ and less cookie cutter.  Figuring out what makes ‘me’ me was the problem.  How do you incorporate a love of things cool and funky and supreme dorkiness into a website?:)  I realized that I probably needed to steer away from my love of pink chandeliers (which I still do love) but try and make things a little more crisp and clean…and I think I’ve got a good start on that.

And to give a little tidbit of my dorkiness…

Yes, I love Friends and of course had to include my pups:)

Sneak Peek: Magnolia

Blessed

Blessed.  That pretty much sums up how I feel about my life.  I’m blessed with a wonderful husband, the ability to pursue my passion and dream at home, my health, living in such a beautiful state, a great and close family, etc etc…and I don’t take any bit of it for granted.  Not. One. Bit.  My life isn’t always sunshine and rainbows, believe me, but I’m getting better at not playing the ‘woe is me‘ game whenever things take a turn for the emotionally disastrous.  Where would that get me?  Nowhere but depressed and bitter.  Been there, done that.  When asked what I can attribute to the steady betterfication (yup, just made that one up:)) of mine and my husband’s lives, the answer is pretty simple.  God.  I believe that is the only thing/person/item/being that holds the cards to our lives and while not everyone I know may hold those same beliefs, I do…and they’re very important to me.  The last half of 2011 and first part of 2012 were pretty rough and in a word, sucked, but I don’t for a second believe that those things happened to humble me.  Heck no!  Yes they were gut wrenchingly hard and sad but the best thing that came out of each one was the incredible peace, believe it or not.

I’m taking a completely new approach to my business strategies this year (as of today) and I’m extremely curious and excited to see what God has in store for it…and for me.:)