colleen merrill photography » portraits

taylor {senior}

Colleen — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 02:02:02 +0000

Taylor is such a sweet girl, who seems really wise for her years. We had a fun time walking around downtown near five-points looking for neat backdrops for her senior portraits. I think we successfully found some interesting areas, and I’m really pleased with the results! Have fun being a senior, Tay!

sabreena {senior}

Colleen — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:19:42 +0000

I have known Sabreena since she was a baby. So, it’s really hard to believe that she will be graduating from college this year! She is a super laid back and fun person, so this shoot was a lot of fun. She has grown into a beautiful young woman and I am so excited for her to epxerience her senior year of high school and get out into the “real” world!! Good luck Bree!

elina {baby}

Colleen — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:47:26 +0000

Little Elina was such a treat to photograph. She’s such a mellow, good-natured baby, and was happy to just chill out and let me take her picture. Her mom and dad are pretty mellow and good-natured so that must be where she gets it from.

keeping up with the joneses {family}

Colleen — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:57:26 +0000

I had the pleasure of spending a crisp Sunday morning keeping up with the Joneses: two adorable boys, two adoring parents, and two very well-behaved & photogenic doggies.

katherine {baby}

Colleen — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:16:32 +0000

What a sweet baby girl Katherine is! I’m pretty sure she has her mommy and daddy wrapped around her little finger, it’s obvious that they adore her. I had the pleasure of photographing them on two occasions in the past month!

matthew, sara beth, jack & noah {family}

Colleen — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:06:54 +0000

Sara Beth and I have been friends since about the 5th grade. We grew up in the same neighborhood and we had our children within 6 months of each other. I’ll never forget the first time I met little Jack and Noah, Sara Beth & Matthew’s twin boys. They were so tiny and precious! Now they are rambunctious preschoolers who have so much fun together! Sara Beth is a budding photographer herself, so I was honored to spend part of an afternoon photographing such a fun family.

meghan {baby}

Colleen — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:52:38 +0000

I had the pleasure of photographing an adorable baby the other day. Little Meghan has these precious big brown eyes surrounded by thick dark lashes, and such a sweet rosy cherub face. She was so easy to photograph and she really seemed to enjoy it. Hard to tell from these pictures, but she was squealing and kicking her legs the whole time!

pinder & brian {engagement}

Colleen — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:34:01 +0000

My dear friends, Pinder & Brian, tied the knot this past July with a gorgeous Indian ceremony in Bellingham, Washington. We had hoped to do engagement photos before the wedding, but decided that things would be less hectic after the big day. On a warm fall afternoon in September, I met the two of them at the Denver Botanic Gardens for our post-wedding engagement session. We had fun finding interesting backdrops, and enjoyed the final days of the summer foliage.

jake & justin {kids}

Colleen — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:05:22 +0000

Jake & Justin, two of my nephews, are always (well almost always) eager to let me photograph them. Actually, they are both becoming quite good models, with signature poses even! Too cute. At the end of September, we found this neat little wooded area in the heart of suburbia in which to frolick (because that’s what you do in wooded areas.)