Here are a few of the images from a wonderful night at last weekend’s  Morgan Adams Artma 2012 event.  This event is one of the fundraisers the Morgan Adams Foundation holds each year and it is a unique, funky, fabulous art auction and is embraced by those who believe deeply in the healing power of art. At each highly anticipated event, Artma hosts over 1,000 guests and sells over 200 pieces of art to benefit the Morgan Adams Foundation. I was honored to help photograph the event again this year. I have sort of attached myself to this awesome organization – the children we help, all the supporters and all the volunteers are so inspirational. Together we all will help find a cure for children’s cancer. For more information visit The Morgan Adams website.

These are just a few of the images from Tim and Pegeen’s wedding at The Evergreen Lake House in Evergreen, Colorado at the end of September. Such a beautiful Colorado location for a wedding.

Here are just a few of the album page designs I’m working on for Jess & Kenyon who were married at Mount Princeton Hot Springs Resort  in the southern part of Colorado in Nathrop on 9-10-11. What an awesome weekend of fun and celebration for everyone it was! For more information on wedding photography availability for 2012, contact the studio. 303-768-0381 or email me juliekemerling@comcast.net.

Lone Tree,CO – January 23, 2012 – WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding Marketplace, is excited to announce that Julie Kemerling of A Fine Photographer has been selected to receive the prestigious WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2012 for Photography! The esteemed annual awards program recognizes the top local wedding vendors from the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism within the wedding industry. While many industry awards are selected by the organization, A Fine Photographer was selected based on its stellar reviews from past newlywed clients.

A Fine Photographer is recognized as part of the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire local vendor community, comprised of over 200,000 wedding professionals throughout the United States and Canada. The Bride’s Choice Award recognizes the best local wedding vendors across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, based on their overall professional achievements throughout the past year.

“WeddingWire is thrilled to honor the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community,” said Timothy Chi, CEO, WeddingWire. “Since the launch of the Bride’s Choice Awards™ program four years ago, thousands of outstanding wedding professionals have been recognized by the bridal community for their supreme service and dedication to the wedding industry. It is with great pleasure that we congratulate A Fine Photographer for their continued professionalism and commitment to enriching the wedding planning experience for engaged couples.” We are happy to announce that (click to see reviews here) A Fine Photographer is one of the very best Photographers within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Project Wedding, Brides.com, Martha Stewart Weddings, and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for taking the time to review our business on WeddingWire. Thanks to their positive feedback we were able to receive the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ for 2012.

How are the winners determined? The WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards ™ recognizes the top local wedding professionals from the WeddingWire Network that demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism. Unlike other awards in which winners are selected by the organization, the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ are awarded solely based on the reviews from over 1.2 million newlyweds. Awards are determined by a combination of four factors: Overall rating (quality), total number of reviews (quantity), review performance from 2011 (recency), and consistency of reviews from year to year (consistency). This year’s recipients represent the top 5% of WeddingWire’s vendor community, across all service categories and all regions throughout the US and Canada.

About WeddingWire, Inc. WeddingWire™, the nation’s leading marketplace serving the $70 billion wedding industry, is the only online wedding planning resource designed to empower both engaged couples and wedding professionals. For engaged couples, WeddingWire offers the ability to search, compare and book over 200,000 reviewed wedding vendors, from wedding venues to wedding photographers. WeddingWire also offers a comprehensive suite of online planning tools for weddings, including wedding websites and wedding checklists, all at no charge. For wedding professionals, WeddingWire is the only all-in-one marketing platform for businesses online and on-the-go. WeddingWire offers one simple solution to build a professional network, improve search visibility, manage social media and reach mobile consumers. Businesses that advertise with WeddingWire appear on WeddingWire.com, ProjectWedding.com and other leading sites, including MarthaStewartWeddings.com (NYSE: MSO), Brides.com and Weddingbee.com. ###

Here are some of Britany and Nate’s images from their wedding at Cielo Pines in Castle Rock a couple of weeks ago. It snowed heavily that day but the sun came out just in time for some photos! These two got engaged while snowshoeing so of course I had to bring some snowshoes for them to make them laugh. It was a perfect prop for them with all the snow. Flowers were beautiful by Parker Blooms and DJ On Demand provided the music and dancing entertainment. The food was catered by Exquisite Taste. Delicious.

Below are some of my vintage-inspired images from last week’s family portrait session. I photographed Kristen and Dillon’s wedding last year in December and they have since moved to Virginia but were back for the holidays! The bride’s family and I have become great friends, so we kid around a lot which made for such a relaxed and fun photo session in spite of the frigid temperatures that day! Here in Colorado we had a white Christmas this year as you can see in these photos, but today its in the 50′s again. Typical Colorado weather of course and thank goodness. I love the beauty of the snow and skiing, but I’m not a huge fan of cold weather, even after all these years.

Here are just a few of all the great glamour clothes and attendees as they entered The Wedding Connectors Hollywood Glam Holiday party on December 12th at The Cable Center in Denver, Colorado. Proceeds from the event went to the B.R.I. Foundation to help with teen suicide prevention. What a spectacular night it was. Thanks to T’Da Design for the transformation and beautiful party atmosphere, complete with peacock feathers and huge HOLLYWOOD lettering, and lounge furniture. The Red Door Photo Booth provided entertain for guests and The Food Guy provided delicious food, desserts and hot drinks. There were too many sponsors to mention them all here but thanks to everyone including The Perfect Wedding Guide and Linda Murri Photography was the official event photographer. Also, special thanks to Hair & Makeup in Motion for providing special looks for The Wedding Connectors. The photos below are from some of my “paparazzi” photographers that I brought in to help as attendees entered the event via the red carpet. It was such fun.

Here’s a few images from my shoot with Sarah and Mac and their family last weekend. I’ve done their family photos since their kids were born and I can’t believe how much they are growing. So fun to see them every year! This year Grandma came along and we both had a laugh too.

Here are some of the images from Lindsey and Erik’s intimate and authentic Hawaiian wedding in Kauai near Princeville on the beach last month. The ceremony included a traditional sea salt ceremony, which was a completely new one for me, and it also included part of the vows in Hawaiian.  They didn’t blow conch shells, but if they did, I would have been there to photograph it. Hey that’s funny right?  Well we laughed about it when Erik and Lindsey viewed their collection of polished images.  Always gotta have fun at the wedding and just take in the magic - each one is so unique and each couple’s story is one of a kind.