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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!

DOCUMENTING LOVE'S UNSCRIPTED CHAPTERS FROM COUPLES & FAMILIES IN COLORADO + VIRGINIA

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The day started with everyone being super positive about the weather even though the forecast was predicting some pretty intense storms and flash flooding in the evening. No matter what happened, they were going to be married and celebrate! Everyone was all set to go, including Anthony and Ashley’s guests, when the rain decided to […]

June 23, 2015

This month marks Chris and Emily’s One Year Anniversary! Cannot believe it has been a year since their Early Mountain Vineyard wedding! So many great things have happened since then, one of the great things being that they are expecting a sweet little girl this summer! So of course for their One Year Anniversary portraits, we […]

I’m writing todays blog post in my living room as roofers are banging above me this morning installing a tin roof. This is going to be brief because it’s hard to concentrate today because A) it’s Monday and B) banging noises echoing throughout the house isn’t pleasant. 😉 I hope everyone enjoyed their Father’s Day yesterday! […]

Continuing this “What’s in my Bag Series” little by little over the weeks but today I am going over the Nikkor 35mm f/1.4G lens! So far, we have gone over the Macro Lens (105mm) and the Telephoto Lens (70-200mm) and now we are going to take a step back for a wider view. The 35mm is […]

It was my first time at the GORGEOUS Keswick Vineyards close to Charlottesville, Virginia and my mouth dropped when I arrived to the venue. I’m a sucker for mountain views so my heart was filled with excitement when it came to portrait time! The heat made things interesting as we tried to avoid the sun […]

I met Brittany YEARS ago from our swimming days at Liberty High School … Hard to believe that was probably 10 years ago?! I was ecstatic when I met up with Danny and Brittany and they asked if I could photograph their special day! They are incredibly sweet and not to mention so fun together … […]

Happy Monday! I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend! It was a HOT one for sure … in fact, it felt like a true July/August weekend. I actually even ended up with a heat rash from Saturday’s wedding! Talk about intense… Haha! Trying to dress up cute isn’t always the best choice when it is 90+ […]

June 12, 2015

I don’t typically blog on Fridays but I realized next week is slammed with portraits/wedding to be featured and want to stay on schedule. 🙂 I’m not sure if you were able to go outside on Tuesday evening but the sun looked so bizarre. I was on my way to meeting up with Kristy and her lovely family […]

I don’t think I have ever been in one space with so many different football fans around. During the best man’s speech, Daniel mentioned how Matt and him would hang out and watch football as their bonding time. Of course he started calling out different football teams and the room started to roar with cheers […]

It has been a while since I last did a “what’s in a bag“. I still have so much to go over so of course I didn’t forget. 😉 We learned all about the use of a Macro Lens last post and this time I’m going to go over the huge mack daddy lens, 70-200mm! […]

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!

DOCUMENTING LOVE'S UNSCRIPTED CHAPTERS FROM COUPLES & FAMILIES IN COLORADO + VIRGINIA

@stephaniemessickphoto

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