A few of our favorite clients called us to do another family shoot for them. Brenda who is one of my good friends had a chance to get all the kids together for the first time in a while. Derrick her oldest son now lives in Texas with his girlfriend Amanda. Chelsey is the middle child who has a voice thats as pretty as she is. Her youngest son Gage is a doll. Such a great kid sweet and full of personality. Here are a few photos of one of our favorite families.

Thanks guys for letting us have the opportunity to see this fun family in action again.

Sorry Dan and I didn’t post yesterday. We had to get up at the crack of dawn to get our spot in line for our flight. So that makes the 3rd morning in a row that I’ve been up before I am happy with.  So we got back in good ole STL about 10 a.m. Went to my mom’s to pick up Parker (our puppy) and headed home for a nice long nap before poor Dan headed out to work!

These photos are of our day on Block Island. This is a beautiful island not to far from Martha’s Vineyard. The scenery was breath taking and we took a million photos. Here are a few of our favorites.

This was our transportation on the island. They revoked my scooter license after taking a bit of a spill during a training session. It was decided that Dan would be my chauffeur.

I would highly recommend Block Island. If your planning a trip to New England this is a must see spot!

We decided to pop into Warwick, RI today to see the legendary home of the Ghost Hunters. We enjoy the show and thought it would be fun to get some shots of their new headquarters. We were hoping to catch some shots of the TAPS members (would that make us paparazzi???) but no such luck! Still, it was fun. Here’s some shots we took in front of their new digs…

Newport Ri is a really nice area. We went to the historic Fort Adams site. We took tons of pix of the fort but we decided on this one because it showed the beautiful ocean beyond the gate. Too pretty!

After the beautiful tour of Fort Adams we went to downtown Newport, RI. Talk about shopping heaven!!! We had lunch at a beautiful place right on the water and this was our view.

After this amazing place we went on to our favorite beach so far. East Point Beach in Groton, CT.  This is minutes from our hotel and we’ve caught the sunset here every night! This is a private beach and its just amazing.

This pix was was just too funny. I couldn’t help but put it up. Talk about ironic!

We will have photos up from Block Island tomorrow! Goodnight all~

Well we’re thousands of miles away for my best friends birthday. I felt really bad about leaving for our vacation with her special day being today. Well Kris…. Sorry we couldn’t be there but we wanted to say Happy Birthday and we love you.

This trip is a mid-season get away for Crystal and I. After an exhausting season of weddings, we needed a bit of time to unwind, so we thought we’d fly to New England for an extended weekend. The reason we chose New England is because when I was in the Navy, I lived on the Submarine base for 6 years and Crystal wanted to share in that part of my life. It has been a LONG time since I was here, so I was really curious about how it had changed.

We are excited about our trip but really tired. To catch our plane, we had to leave the house at 5:15am! We almost never see that time of the morning unless it’s from the night before!

We got to Hartford about noon, picked up our rental hot-rod and drove for another boring hour to Mystic Ct. Mystic is everything I remember and a LOT more!

We drove around my old haunts in Groton, New London, and Mystic. We couldn’t get on the Sub Base since I am not in the military anymore, which was disappointing, but we did go to the Submarine Museum.

We even went on-board the worlds first nuclear powered submarine, the Nautilus. That was a pretty cool history trip for me. While it wasn’t like my ship, the USS Kamehameha, it gave Crys a small idea of what submarine life was all about.

We went to thew world famous Mystic Pizza featured in the film of the same name and then ended our day as we watched the sunset at the Groton beach.

Well, we’ve had a busy day and we’re pretty tired, so it’s bedtime for me. We’ll put more on day two tomorrow!

Dan

Several of our portrait clients wanted the high key photography style. So Dan and I booked some studio time and got some great images of several original clients. We also spent some time getting a few studio shots of Katrina and Devanne for their senior portrait portfolio.

Here is some of our favorite images from yesterday.

Kris & Erin practically started our photography business, this was an adorable photo of them. Just loved it!

This is Joe. One of the sweetest, smartest kids I’ve ever met.

This is Sammy Jo. Joe’s little sister. Absolutely adorable!

Just love this pix of the two of them. Too cute!

This is Grace. We’ve had her as a client since she was eight weeks old. We’ve got enough photos of this little angel to start our own modeling agency.

This Grace is an amazingly smart little girl. She too has been a client since she was a baby. Just adorable. Very smart little thing!

Emma Rose is my cousins little girl. just adorable and quite the handful. Her little brother Brady is pictured below.

Too cute with the little hand clap.

Usually I find it very difficult to shoot family members. Especially when it comes to my little sister. However, she did a bang up job yesterday. I think she is such a pretty girl.

such pretty eyes a part of our Dad I wish I could have inherited.

My favorite pix of the day! I think she looks so cute up against the red!

I love this photo of Devanne. She felt sooo silly doing this pose but it came out great I love it!

Thanks to all who made yesterday such a great sucess. We appreciate you all!

Dan & Crystal~

Colortouch was mentioned in a great new website St. Louis Wedding News. It’s a new up and coming site for the STL Brides! www.stlouisweddingnews.com has done an interview and wrote up a huge article about us. Dan and I where thrilled to do it. We are sure this will be a great resource for couples!

 Here is a link to the article.  http://stlouisweddingnews.com/wedding-photography/check-out-color-touch-photography-for-quality-and-style/

Hope you all have a good time reading it. It has lots of great stuff about Dan and myself and several of our most favorite images. We were happy to take part in this new exciting website.

We talked about this house in the first post about Wisconsin. Like we said its a house that is a macabre collection of collections. This is only a few of the photo’s and even photos can’t do it justice but we tried. Here is a link to the website http://www.thehouseontherock.com/

You really should visit if you ever get the chance. Not to mention it’s literally one of the most scenic drives I’ve ever been on. Dan and I love to road trip, so we’ve seen lots of scenery! Just bring a good pair of walking shoes when you go… You’re gonna need them!

This is the view from the ladies rest room in the reception building. This looks like it will be an interesting day!

There were thousands of these old dolls. They even had their own 3 story carousel!

This is the entrance to the circus collections section.

Me getting my fortune told!

As photographers, of course we were interested in the antique cameras. What's scary is... Dan says he's had some of these!!!

Now that's what I call pimpimg your ride!

These guys gave me the creeps. Not the only thing there to do it either! I still loved it all though.

What do you do when you have an old horse drawn coffin carrier, a bunch of musical instruments, and quite a bit of mechanical aptitude... This of course.

I loved this room! Nothing like a small orchestra played completely by machines!

Over 20,000 lights, hundreds of chandeliers, and not a single horse! Really amazing to see!

Three stories of a wooden elephant pyramid.

Dan thought this was funny. The perfect table setting for dinner and a duel to the death. Yup. Just plain weird. :)

This is Dan’s oldest sister and her family. We had a great time going up to do these and are very happy we could get a new great traditional family photo for above the mantle. I hope you guys enjoyed getting them done as much as we did taking them. We love you all.

Dan & Crystal~

Dan’s family near Chicago asked us to come up and take family photos. They wanted a new pix for above their mantle. So we were both thrilled to go up since we’ve got a small break here in August between wedding gigs! So we took the laptop because we’re still working the wedding we shot a week or so ago so we can work all 5 hrs up and down!

So we get into Illinois a good few hours and this beautiful road appears out of no where. I insist Dan pull over so I can take a few shots of this glorious day. Here is a very insignificant road somewhere in IL that was stunning.

Here is yet another shot. I was totally in love with this spot and wishing I had a couple to shoot on it!

My new favorite air freshener. I love Yankee Candles and this is my favorite sent. These new pump style air fresheners work great!

Yep after 5 hrs in the car I get a little bored. I noticed that the shifter has Dans reflection in it. I call this shot “When Togs Get Bored”.

It was a great trip and Dan and I love this scenic beautiful drive. We’ve got the James Family pictures that will be up tomorrow. Plus we went to an awesome place in WI called The House on The Rock. It’s a very eclectic and unique house that is best described as macabre collection of multiple collections. It ranges from giant mechanical orchestras to a gigantic orca. With literally everything in between. You just have to wait until you see the pic’s.