Cody & Chelsea

This was a fun Wednesday night. I heard Chelsea and Cody were going to be in town for a couple months passing through on their way to their new home - Omaha. Cody is starting dental school and they are enjoying time with family and friends. I grew up down the street from Cody and was best friends with Chelsea's older sister in high school. They are so fun and had some amazing ideas. Chelsea is in the process of starting her own photography business and is going about it the same was I did. Take tons of family and friends and continue to learn, learn, learn.

I got a hold of Chelsea to take my family photos since she was going to be in town and we decided it would be fun to exchange pictures. I was really excited to hear she wanted an urban session. I love taking photos downtown in alleys, sidewalks, next to neat old doors. I definitely would not call myself an urban photographer. I like the natural photo, I spend hours trying to get pictures as true to "real color" as I can, but with urban photography colors pop and photoshop is my best friend. There are probably way too many, but let me know what you think of the urban session.

I got to play around with the lighting and was so excited to get the sun flare just perfect.

This next series makes me smile. I love it, you both are way too cute.

I love this ring photo too.

Since Chelsea is a photographer she new places she wanted to go. This is the door she definitely wanted. This was a fun area to take photographs at. Hopefully I took what you wanted. . .


I like the photo below.

I love this picture below. Chelsea has the best smile and Cody can do a killer serious face.

Chelsea also wanted this Pepsi wall. I think this photo turned out great. I have never even noticed this wall, but another great spot to take pictures.

Well for my first complete "urban" session I had a blast. Next week Chelsea is taking photos of my family - still thinking of a location - I'll have to post a few. We took too many photos this evening, so I'm also leaving a slide show. Not what I usually do for a portrait session, but as a photographer she had too many ideas and I just kept clicking. Check out the slide show here.

Thanks so much for the great session. Look forward to seeing you next week. Hopefully Isaac is better for you then me!