I’m Stephanie, a wedding + lifestyle photographer based in Colorado Springs, Colorado and Warrenton, Virginia. Whether I’m by the mountains of Colorado or Virginia, my soul feels at home, surrounded by rural living and the raw beauty of nature. I genuinely love what I do, and feel so passionate to share the enthusiasm and joy of these celebrations with you!

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February 24, 2014

Weekend Recap

Ever since arriving back from Cali, I’ve been anxious to get my season started! It has honestly been nice taking a month off of sessions to focus on behind the scenes work …
* Created a daily planner
* Refined my website, blog, packaging,
*Pre packed all of my packaging to last me hopefully through the entire year
* Created a client post-wedding or post-session survey
* Submitted a couple albums to be published and looking forward to their debut
* Organized my personal and business paperwork and filed them
* This should have been done when I originally started if I had known the future … I am officially an LLC! I signed my business to be a sole proprietor June of 2012 having no idea that my business would grow so fast! So I’m thankful to have taken this leap to lead me to where I am today! This just made me realize that I will be hitting my 2 year anniversary this June! AH! 🙂
* Two styled shoots in preparation for the next coming up months!

Here is a sneak peek of Evan and Ally’s engagement session at the Richmond Capital Building! Ohhhh I cannot wait to share this session! Funny behind the scenes story: Evan popped the big question to Ally here back in December when a cop pulled them aside to background check them … we coincidentally ran into that same cop when we were taking photos! Lol! So just for fun, we got a photo with him. 🙂 At least it’s a memory that will ALWAYS be a memory to share with their future family!
2014-02-23_Evan_Ally_webHope everyone had a wonderful and safe weekend … wasn’t the 70 degree weather so unreal for a February day?! And I heard we are anticipating snow this week? For real?

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