Frances Photography

Insta-glitch… 🤷🏼‍♀️

Well, here the images that were supposed to be in place of the cheetah image that duplicated itself 5 times in part 2.

Full ⭕️ circle. (Part 2 of 2)

As I look back over all the years; back though all of the blood, sweat and tears, I can say with absolute certainty… my career was AMAZING. I met incredible humans from around the world, I made life-long friends, and best of all, I saw and captured the kinds of love that can (and will) break your heart.

I laughed, I loved, and I cried right along with my clients for two full decades. I froze moments in time that will make up thousands upon thousands of pieces of family history. I gave everything I had, in every way that I knew how, to help people to remember how they felt during these precious and fleeting moments in time.

At the end of last year, I decided I was complete. 20 years, as it turns out, was enough for me. I have mastered my craft. I have seen everything I needed to see, and I have done everything I wanted to do in this space.

As I say my goodbyes to the wedding industry, I am also bring my artistry full circle. I started with a love of natural beauty and a desire to capture landscapes. After photographing my final wedding last fall, I flew to Kenya with my husband where I spent 12 days capturing the most wild natural beauty I never knew I needed for my heart. It was nothing short of pure magic. The images I brought home… well, they are treasures.

These photos, to me, represent the truest testament to the years I spent honing my craft. Because I am left with this- I am and always will be an artist. I am and always will be a photographer. As for weddings, it’s time to say farewell and pass the torch.

Thank you to the industry that raised me, that expanded me, that taught me so much about who I am. Thank you to ALL of my clients: To the ones I loved, (which is most of you), thank you for making my life brighter and motivating me to be the best I could be. And to the ones that challenged me, thank you for teaching me about boundaries and making me braver. I am better because of you too. 😉

So long wedding friends… That’s a wrap!

Full Circle. (Part one of two)

Back in mid-2000, I was freshly graduated from college and instead of going on to law school, I moved to Fiji instead. It was there, surrounded by truly wild, lush and vivid natural beauty, that I decided to become a photographer. I had a cheap point and shoot camera and I remember how disappointed I was every time I got a batch of film back because the photos never looked how I imagined they would. The extraordinary landscape around me that I so desperately wanted to capture was eluding me. I didn’t know anything, really, about photography.

Fast forward 6 months. I came back to the US and enrolled at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara where I deep dove into a formal photography education. I didn’t want to be a good photographer, I wanted to be a GREAT one! When I left Brooks, I was finally on my way to being the artist I always wanted to be. Simultaneously, I had to figure out how to make a living with the thing I fell in love with. And, photographing beautiful landscapes didn’t seem like a viable option.

So, in 2003, I opened my wedding photography business. In, 2004 I moved back to Denver where things took off like wildfire. For twenty years I grew as an artist; I grew as a business owner; I grew as a human. I honed and mastered my craft through hundreds of thousands of images taken over hundreds upon hundreds of weddings, engagements, and other photo jobs.

I photographed weddings in every scenario you can imagine from mountain tops to wine caves and every place in between. I shot massive weddings, tiny weddings, backyard weddings, celebrity weddings, ballroom weddings, beach weddings, rooftop weddings. And all of this in every kind of light and weather, running the gamut from incredible to horrific.

I had drunk guests hit on me, step on me, knock my light stands over, spill on me, and yes, even puke on me. I wore the hat of photographer, therapist, wedding planner, seamstress, guest wrangler, child whisperer, dog handler, friend, confidant, interference runner, and miracle worker. It was more than just an artistic endeavor, it was a multi-faceted juggling act…

(Cont’d in next post.)

Just a *little* obsessed with this. ☔️🤍
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These two!! Annie and Gus, you have officially stolen my heart. Thank you for being such a highlight of 2022! 🤍♾️🤍

The ultimate floral-on-floral table. Can't wait to collab like this again! 🌸🕯

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Candy is key 🍭 How cute is this happy flower girl?!

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Insert guests of honor here! 🐶

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We are family 🎶 Color or black & white? Which is your fav?! 👇

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To have & to hold 🖤

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Michael & Sylvain designed a personalized day that honored both their French and American cultures. “Since our wedding also involved the union of French and American families, we made sure to have elements of both cultures represented,” the grooms say, “sometimes individually and other times as clever hybrids—like our wedding cake, which married the traditional French croquembouche with the American tier cake.” Their cake was a showstopper to say the least but only second to the glowing grooms who got to commit to forever together on a day they’ll always cherish! 🖤

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