Last week Mollie and Tom, accompanied by their 2-year-old daughter Lili, eloped to the charming Hacienda Dona Andrea de Santa Fe for a wonderful sunset ceremony.

One week after my trip to Oklahoma I traveled to San Angelo, Texas and once again I had the opportunity to shoot a beautiful wedding, this time it was Leslie and Matt's!

It's been a while since I lasted posted, but I wanted to put up a few shots from last month's union of Heather and Todd. It was a bit of a drive from Santa Fe to Tulsa, Oklahoma, but Heather and Todd made it a wonderful wedding to remember!

I've just returned from a week in Las Vegas where I attended the Digital Wedding Forum convention and the Wedding & Portrait Photographers International convention and trade show. The speakers were excellent, and included celebrity photographer Joe Buissink and Seattle-based nature photographer Art Wolfe and many others. It was an amazing experience, and I even picked up a Canon 5D.
Joining me in Vegas were two Santa Fe photographers, Ben Chrisman and Michael Cody. Ben also works in San Francisco and Michael has a New York office, and they both are a source of constant inspiration for me. Thanks guys!


Sunset in the desert during the DWF photography demonstration by John Michael Cooper and David Beckstead



John Michael Cooper sets up his "anti-bride" shot



David Beckstead shooting from above


Las Vegas Boulevard

They call it "The Big One" and Jackson Hole did not disappoint. My brother Jan and I descended a total of 85,000 vertical feet during three days at the resort.

Check out a few photos from the beautiful wedding of Mary Jane and Jeff which took place in Santa Fe's Loretto Chapel.

Wearing their Lucha Libre wrestling masks, Albert and his groomsmen strolled through the Santa Fe Plaza on Saturday for a pre-ceremony photo shoot. Later that evening, Albert and his beautiful bride Chela were married on Santa Fe's Museum Hill.

My first two Wedding Photojournalist Association contests resulted in a seventh place in the Emotion category and an eighth place win in Engagement Portraits, while in the recent Fall contest of The Artistic Guild of the Wedding Photojournalist Association I was honored with a first place in the Engagement Portrait category. Check out the winning entries from the beautiful weddings of Lindsey and Roland and Erin and Kueyson :

One of the most amazing mt. bike trips I've been on was this year's pilgrimage to Moab with my brother Jan and friends Larry and Severn. Jackson's Ladder portage, Hurrah Pass, Porcupine Rim and Slickrock--epic riding, to say the least!