The Knot - Best of Weddings 2010

Andrea Moore Photography has been named a 2010 pick for "Best of Weddings." Check us out online or in print!

Number One on the A-List

Andrea Moore Photography has been named the Best Photographer in Denver by Channel 7's A-List. Check us out!

Thank you to everyone for your support!

Cady and Josh... Baby on Board

Cady and Josh are dear friends in addition to clients, and I was so happy to spend a beautiful Saturday afternoon up in Fort Collins taking these maternity photos for them. We began the morning with a Blessing Way ceremony hosted by some of the women integral to Cady's life, and the ladies decorated her belly with henna. Josh joined us later for the shoot.

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Henna belly!

Cady and Josh enjoy the sun

See here for baby

Listening for any clue to the baby's gender

Goddess suns herself on rock! I admit it -- I'm really, really excited about this shot.

It was a beautiful afternoon in the foothills, and probably our last amazing day of full sun. Thank you to Cady and Josh for the opportunity to play outside, and I can't wait to get the "it's time" phone call. My thoughts and prayers are Loveland bound....

Reece and Sisters

Working with repeat clients is such a treat, and this family ranks among the most vibrant, interesting, and downright wild I've had the pleasure to watch grow up. I've taken photos of older sisters Cameron and Maddy twice before, but it was finally time to focus on little Reece, the capricious and fearless baby. So that makes three gorgeous, red-headed girls for mom Melissa to chase around the park on a beautiful October afternoon.

Reece followed up our introduction with leaping into my arms for a big hug, and I turned into a puddle in the parking lot. If I could grow up again and pick a gang of imaginative, creative, brilliant girls to run with, I would choose these girls hands down. They are treasure hunters and pirates, climbers and tricksters, and probably geniuses. Seriously, they speak in complex sentences. Any girls that lay waste to their photographer, leaving her literally smeared in goose poop, leaves, and cattail fuzz, are girls I want to hang out with, again and again.

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Reece collapses on the grass by the pond's edge after chasing the geese into the water

Perched above the marsh

Cattails aren't exactly a recipe for tidy clothing, but they are great for adorable photos

Sweet backlighting, how I love thee

Down into the pile of leaves!

Wait a minute, whose idea was this?

Right, saw that one coming

Maddy locks and loads

My heart literally hurts from this photo. Sister power forever!

These girls never stay serious for long

You've got to click on this sequence to see it a little bit bigger. Just to be clear, I am not above bribery. When focusing is required, introduce lollipops.


Mom and the girls

When, oh when, can we do this again? I need a day or two to recover from the exhaustion, but then I need another dose of my sirens. I'm waiting with bated breath for round 4....

Olivia and Family

Olivia is a baby on the move, and I had to shoot quick before she crawled right out of the frame, time and time again. But fortunately she had a high tolerance for being picked up and set back down, so we just kept scooping her up and plopping her back in the "studio." I also did baby photos of Olivia's older sister Emily a year and a half ago, so we took the opportunity to capture some shots of everybody in the growing family.

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Why, hello there!

Olivia likes it when her mom Michelle sings and dances her tail off


Sister Emily and duck


Emily plays peek-a-boo


Emily and Olivia


Olivia with daddy's fire fighter hat

A very serious Olivia with very serious plastic rings

Baby on the run!

Chris, Emily, Michelle, and Olivia

Olivia and Mommy


Olivia and Daddy

Walking back to the truck

Attack the photographer!

Emily out for blood in the leaf war

Olivia and pumpkin buddy

Thanks to the whole family for a wonderful shoot on a beautiful autumn day!

Ski Bums and Ski Bunnies... on Wheels

I would tell you where and under what circumstances I took these photos, but that would be breaking the rules of the organization that runs the event (Rule #1 and Rule #2 are both DON'T TALK ABOUT [the event]). So in lieu of all the details, I'll just share the mayhem. If you're the kind of person who simply must know what this is all about, I'm sure you're sleuth enough to figure it out.

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Andrea's Africa Photos - One Night Only!

Come to my art show! It's one night only - click on the top image to enlarge the flyer and see all the details. It's open from 6pm - 9pm, but you can come for any part of that time; the photography will be looping all night.

It's family-friendly and FREE!

Before & Afters - Fix 'n Flip!

IT'S DONE. The lovely, wretched, wonderful little fix 'n flip project that I undertook with four friends -- under the aptly-named company Full House, Ltd -- is finally FINISHED and on the market. Huzzah! Here are the before, during, and after shots that make the whole thing seem totally worthwhile.

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The view into the house from just inside the front door. There used to be a wall with a door leading into the kitchen; that came down, and now the entire space is the living and dining room.

The view of the front door from inside the living / dining room

The window of what used to be the kitchen and what is now the dining room

Looking into the hallway

The old bathroom became the bathroom inside the master suite

The view into the hall from inside the master bedroom

The master bedroom

The old bathroom sink and toilet reinvented as the master bath shower

The view from the dining room towards the back of the house. It used to be a weird, meandering labyrinth ending at the back door, and it is now a totally renovated kitchen with brand new appliances.

Looking back into the house from the old back door. Now the door is on the side wall instead, so the view in the last shot is from the sink.

The basement laundry and maintenance room

The basement has been converted into a third bedroom (note the new egress window)

The basement bedroom

The basement stairs. We moved them back two steps so that you don't have to duck under the doorway to enter the basement.

We tore down a series of crappy additions on the back of the house and created an entirely new addition with a gabled roof.

It's been a remarkable experience, one that in the end probably was worthy of a televised reality show, and we've learned more than we ever expected. Now let's just hope the house sells! The asking price is $219,900 for this beauty, so if you're in the market for a new home... call our realtor!! :)

Soaking Wet Bride!

WEARING A WEDDING GOWN IN A LAKE? WHAT IS THIS BRIDE THINKING? Well, Tenly was thinking that there's no better way to celebrate your fifth anniversary than by trashing your dress good and proper on camera! Tenly and her hubby Kevin dunked into Wellington Lake for our Trash-the-Dress session, and as you'll see later on, so did their photographer....

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Attack of the killer veil!

The killer veil claims its second victim!

That dress is good and WET. At one point we heard people on the opposite shore of the lake screaming "There's a bride in the water!" The tone was akin to "There's a fifty-foot woman!"

Apparently she's still easy to carry over the threshold, even soaking wet.

It's perfectly natural to lounge on the shore in your wedding gown

It was not warm in the lake. One might say it was cold, even.

One of my favorites! I would love to see it alongside a portrait of their kiss from their wedding ceremony. Still in love!

We enlisted some 10 year-olds to give our bride and groom another dousing. The boys were THRILLED to oblige... I had to remind them that this was a one-time gig and not to splash just any passing bride.

My friend Ronnie took this shot of me at work. Sometimes you just have to get IN the water... even if your equipment is very, very expensive.

Bride down! We've got a bride down!

By that last shot, I'd say Tenly's dress was good and trashed. Mission accomplished! On the drive back to Denver I think she and Kevin tossed the gown in a dumpster... beats hanging unused in a closet for the next forty years!

So who's next? You want to try mud? Rain? Paint ball?

Very AltF Hits Denver!

I had the pleasure of attending John and Dalisa Cooper's one-day photography workshop here in Denver today, and it was pretty amazing to be in the presence of the "grandfather of dress trashing." Today marked the Cooper's last stop in a month-long jaunt around the country, during which they injected photographers nationwide with their elegantly irreverent philosophy about the business. Seeing as how I feel about irreverence, I'M SO GLAD I WENT.

Highlights from a day of highlights... click on any image to see an enlarged version.

Bride Heather runs for the train

The view from behind John's right shoulder

John was working on a conceptual image (actualizing his veryaltf logo), and I was able to catch the bride in mid-flight - I love the motion of her hair and dress.

Heather strikes a pose against John and Dalisa's RV

Speaking of dress trashing, I had an opportunity to shoot my first trash-the-dress session this July; my friend Tenly and her husband Kevin decided to celebrate their five-year anniversary by dunking Tenly's wedding gown in a lake. YES! Here's a preview of a longer blog entry to come:

Damn, that is NOT DRY!

Let's hear it for summer fun amid wedding season mayhem! We all have to stay sane somehow, and as you can see below, I'm barely hanging on....

Shot by fellow photographer Eric Bakken at a recent wedding. Will I eat my camera? Throw it? Guess its weight? Who knows!