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The Makerie, A Creative Retreat | Boulder, Colorado

juliav — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:30:46 +0000

Who doesn’t want to get their hands dirty with paint, learn how to letter press, or take more compelling photos of their life? Carving out creative time and space, can be difficult between loads of laundry, cooking dinner, and picking up toys. I can’t usually even find my fabric scissors, let along find 3 hours to sew. Escaping to Chautauqua for a dedicated creative retreat where your right brain can be the boss, is the best therapy. My recommendation, grab your mom or your best friend and sign up for the 2012 weekend.

Last year I documented The Makerie and my photos recently appeared in two magazines: Mollie Makes and Uppercase. Seeing your work published never seems to get old.

Emily + Scott | Denver Engagement Session, Wash Park

juliav — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:09:24 +0000

Winter has rolled into Colorado again this afternoon. Luckily, I met up with Emily and Scott at Wash Park last Sunday for their engagement session and Colorado sunshine was bright and warm. Our furry companions, Bear and Cooper, were fun additions to the session.

Emily and Scott are planning a beautiful summer New Hampshire wedding in June. Her mom has been buying antiques to decorate the wedding and an old wooden boat will be driving Emily to the island for the ceremony. Doesn’t it sound like a fairytale? I just can’t wait.

The Mackintosh Family | Boulder portrait photographer

juliav — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:06:49 +0000

Thinking ahead to the next holiday, Valenetine’s Day, the Mackintosh family requested a Boulder urban shoot. As design creatives who own indiegraphic, a web/print/logo/icon/ui/development business, their visual style is fresh and unique both professionally and personally.

With a vision in mind, we created family photos with room for text for their Valentine’s Day cards. Dimples, an elf hood, innocent brown eyes, big toothy grins, and messy sibling hugs flooded my camera on Saturday.

Thanks for having me be apart of your Valentine’s Day surprise! I loved creating these photos with you.

Alice + Chloe | Boulder twin photographer

juliav — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:23:06 +0000

My love of photography began with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Helen Levitt and Margaret Burke-White to name a few. They inspired me capture real life as it happens to find the decisive moment. In the middle of Alice and Chloe’s portrait session, Isabelle strolled into the frame. Life happened and I love what happened.

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And here are some more super cute shots of Miss Chloe and Alice.

TDA for 5280 | Boulder, Colorado Photographer

juliav — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:33:23 +0000

TDA’s new home created by Surround Architecture and Treeline Home is a photographer’s dream shoot. Tons of natural light, hip people to use as models, and unique details reclaimed materials like the wing of a plane and salvaged glass from a Frank Lloyd Wright synagogue.

Elliot Family | Boulder family photographer

juliav — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:57:26 +0000

Family is the definition holiday season. For me, I can loose track of the important things during the holiday season. I will blame it on the extra wine and cookies, a total sugar coma.

On Christmas day, I received an email from the Elliot family wanting to schedule a winter portrait session with grandparents, parents, brother, sister, and cousins. Here are a few from our Boulder winter wonderland.

Stella and Dot Headshot | Boulder Portrait Photographer

juliav — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:47:13 +0000

Have you heard about Stella and Dot? It is beautiful affordable jewelry that you can wear everyday and everywhere. Heather Williams is a new Colorado Stylist for Stella and Dot and last week we worked together to create some gorgeous portraits for her Facebook page. Luckily, we got a day with no wind as I prefer to shoot outside for head shots! The boulder winds were just wild last week.

To view more head shots, you can visit my site. THANKS!

White Truffle Dinner at Frasca | Food photographer in Boulder, Colorado

juliav — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:52:31 +0000

Every December, Frasca hosts an annual white truffle dinner, an amazing 7 course dinner with wine pairings. I had the honor of photographing the event for the second year in a row. To see more images from the dinner, please visit my new editorial/commercial site juliavandenoever.com.

Happy New Year! Wishing you great things for 2012.

xo, j

My brother’s first Christmas | Family photographer in Boulder, Colorado

juliav — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:19:51 +0000

Sifting through an old box of photos, I dug up this photo from Christmas 1978 of me and my brother in Chappaqua, New York.

Happy holiday!

The Oremus | Boulder newborn photographer

juliav — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:49:38 +0000

The biggest compliment a photographer can received is to be hired again and again by the same family. When Kim was pregnant with with Sydney, I documented the start of their family in Boulder. So much as changed as Sydney is now 3 and is a big sister to her baby brother, Beckett, 7 weeks old.

I had a blast playing with Sydney making her photos. I helped her pick out her pretty pink outfit and we went from room to room jumping on bed, rolling around with her dog, and even unrolled the toilet paper in the bathroom.

On a business note, I have a personal goal to get 500 fans on my Facebook page. Starting in Janaury, I am going to be raffling off 25 handmade letterpress calendars created by Bird Dog Press and 10 $50 gift certificates for sessions. Once I reach my goal of 500 fans, I will raffle off a free session and all you have to do to enter is like my page. I will be traveling to New York City, Los Angeles, Georgian Bay, Vermont, New Hampshire in 2012 so just because you don’t live in Colorado doesn’t mean you can’t win. Share with friends and family far and wide! A million thank yous!

http://www.facebook.com/JuliaVandenoeverPhotography

Now on to the photos of the Oremus family!