colleen merrill photography

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!

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.

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!

Tim, Olivia and I made it to the mountains only a few times this summer/fall.  One of these times was at the end of September when we tried to hike a trail near Brainard Lake.  The weather was gorgeous, the aspens were at their peak, and unfortunately every body and their brother decided it was the perfect day for a hike too!  We couldn’t find parking at the trail head, so we settled for a walk around the lake.  We ventured into the surrounding forest a bit, just so that we could feel adventurous (my cowboy hat added to the adventurous spirit!)  The scenery was worth the trip, and Liv had a blast learning how to skip stones on the lake with daddy.

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, 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.)

Ann and I have been friends since we were 4 and 5 years old!  We were classmates through college – we both got degrees in Architectural Engineering from CU Boulder.  So, it was my pleasure to take some family pictures of her with her husband Daniel and their adorable little girl Libby.  We had fun wandering around a little pond near where we grew up, finding neat spots to stop and pose.