I have recently been working on the last of the albums from this past spring's weddings. Here are a few samples of the pages...

Coming up soon - Random images from around Denver...

I have recently been going back through my old images, dating way back to photography school... And I found some that might just be worth putting out there. Most of these were commercial pieces that I photographed at school, in the commercial studio, with a HUGE 4x5 camera - Those things are NOT the easiest to maneuver and use.

This first image was probably the easiest one of all of the ones I'm putting up today - It only took about three hours to get right...

This next one took a little longer -

And the goal of this one was to photograph "shiny metal." Mind you, our instructor told us NOT to use a teapot because they are notoriously hard to get right. My silly self decided to do it anyway. After MANY hours, it finally turned out alright...

My favorite, though, is the one that took the longest. This one started out as a black and white film image, for our "black on black" assignment. It took hours, and turned out awful. My advisor at the time gave me a little advice, and so I started again. This time, I photographed the mug with slide film, NOT black and white... Then scanned it and spent a few more hours cleaning it up in Photoshop. In any case, I think it turned out alright.

Hope you enjoyed these images... Coming up soon - the new website!

L. E. Luhn Photography wants to thank all of you who came out to the gallery opening last Friday! It was a COLD day, but it seemed to me that there was a pretty decent turnout. It was exciting and somewhat scary to have my stuff up there, hanging for all the world to see. I'm here are a couple of images of what it all looked like - NOT the best photographs, but enough for everyone to get the idea!

Alright, once again, I have been slacking on the blog thing... I have been busy with... Oh, I don't know... Life... Or something... Anyway, excitement is on the horizon! I have my very FIRST gallery show opening in about three weeks! *SHEER EXCITEMENT* It took me FOREVER to figure out what images to show, what images not to show, what images to enlarge and frame, and what images to just have available for purchase in smaller sizes... I STILL haven't figured out the latter. The opening is Friday, Dec. 4th, 6-10 pm at the NOW Artspace Gallery on Tennyson in Denver, if anyone is interested in attending, and the show will run through the last Saturday of the month. Here are a couple of the images I finally decided on...

I hope to see some of you there!

Laura & Will

On to the next wedding of the season... Laura and Will's wedding was a little different... They actually got married last summer, on a VERY rainy Saturday afternoon at Smith Gardens... Laura hid out in the car until her dad came by, and actually walked in to the ceremony under an umbrella!

The ceremony was nice, if a little damp, and at the end of the day, Laura and Will were Mr. and Mrs.!

Their reception was this summer, at the Country Club of the North. The details of the beach themed reception were just amazing!

And of course, you can't forget the mimosas!

It was a beautiful wedding and a great time!

Memorial Day Weekend in Moab, Utah

This year for Memorial Day weekend, we decided to go to Moab, Utah. We'd been there before, and we always meant to go back, we just hadn't had the chance. We used the excuse that I was turning 30 that weekend as a good reason to go... So, we lugged all of our camping gear across the country via airplane and landed in Moab...

We rented mountain bikes a couple of days, that's always interesting... But the highlight for me was getting to go back to the national parks around there, especially Canyonlands. There is an arch there whose beautiful photograph has eluded me in the past. Mesa Arch, it's called, and there have been BEAUTIFUL images created of it over the years... The last time we were in Moab, we got up early to catch the sunrise behind it, only to arrive about 20 minutes too late...!

This year, I was DETERMINED to get the shot. We got up at 4 on the morning of my birthday, and headed out. We arrived with plenty of time to hike in by headlamp, which we did (it's not a bad hike at all). I had just set up my camera and tripod when we started hearing voices out on the trail. Suddenly, there was a group of about 14 photographers, all lined up in a row with tripods, and as the sun came up, everyone was shuffling for the best spot. A few of the people there were taking pictures of the photographers instead of the sunrise...

Anyway, after much shuffling with other people, here is the best image I got from the infamous sunrise shoot.

I still want to go back again, maybe in winter, when there will be less people around, to see if I can get the sun in a better spot.

On the hike out, there were many, many different types of cacti in bloom...

The weekend went well, although that night there was a thunderstorm and lightning decided to hit the town's only transformer, knocking the power out to the WHOLE town. It was entertaining, and so we packed up and went in search of a microbrew and a hotel for our last night out!

Francie and John

Our first wedding of the season came mid-May, with Francie and John. They got married at St. Charles in Kettering. Although I'd spent my whole life growing up going to church there, I'd never photographed a wedding there. We had a great time with them. For a change, here are some of the album pages that I created for their wedding!

Colorado Spring Break

I'm not too sure how to start this post, so how about some photographs?

I took these over spring break this past March when I was out visiting friends in Colorado.  It was an ugly, cloudy day, kind of rainy, but one of my friends and I went out shooting, and we found some beautiful water to photograph in Clear Creek Canyon, off of the road that goes from Denver almost to Idaho Springs.  It worked out well for me, as I LOVE to photograph moving water...

*Just a reminder, all of my fine art and landscape images are available for purchase at:

www.lelphoto.smugmug.com, 

or via email for a signed and matted print at:

leluhnphoto@gmail.com

Next up, wedding season, as well as a trip to Moab, Utah!

Big South Fork NRRA

Okay, okay, so the next few days has turned into a month.  Crazy how that happens...  Much excitement, though.  My husband and I FINALLY were able to realize a crazy dream of ours that we've had for years now... More about that later, though!

In the meantime, I believe I owe some 

wedding and trip photographs that I have neglected, once again, to put up.  So...

Sometime in January, my husband talked me into doing a little colder-

weather camping.  It was going to be something like below zero in Dayton, so we decided to go a little further south.  We ended up at Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, on the Kentucky-Tennessee border, where it was just a LITTLE bit warmer...  Here are a few images from our (12 grueling mile) hike the first day we were out there...

I absolutely LOVE photographing moving water, so this hike was awesome for me.

The next morning (I know I mentioned "cold-weather" camping earlier...),

 we woke up to this...

About three inches of snow had fallen on us that overnight!  And we'd been lucky the evening before.  If I recall correctly, we had just finished cleaning out the dishes from dinner and crawled into our tent when, "drip, drip, drip..."  It was raining, then it (obviously) turned to snow, as you can see from the photograph...

It was a great trip!

Stay tuned!  More to come from spring break in Colorado and the season's first weddings, along with my first-ever "Trash the Dress" session...!

I know, I know, I have been terrible, neglecting my blog for the last six months...  Wow!  It HAS been that long...  Oops.  So I would like to apologize for my gross neglect.

What shooting I have done has been fun.  Matt and I went out to play one rainy afternoon at this wall of grafitti that we have biked past numerous times.  We always thought it would be cool, and we finally got there.  Here are a couple of images from our playtime.

We had a really good time that day, wandering around downtown with our cameras, photographing random subjects around town. 

I have a couple of weddings and trips that I will blog about here in the next couple of days...  Until then, enjoy!

Well, I'm back from my WONDERFUL vacation in Florida for the holidays.  I got to hang out with my family and do quite a few pretty cool things. I was able to take a ton of photographs, both of people and outdoor things.  I will have more up here over the next week or so from my trip, as well as on my flickr site, so check that out as well!  In the meantime, this is probably my favorite shot from my trip...  We went to an area of Everglades National Park called Shark Valley, where I had never gone before.  We didn't see any sharks, but we saw a ton of these guys!