Krista Watzel Photography

I’m not your mother’s photographer…and I mean that in the best way possible! My background in television journalism trained my eye to seek out situations that have created themselves. Posed family portraits are of course part of the package that I offer to all of my clients, but the candid moments that will only happen once are what I strive to capture. About 75% of what I shoot is journalistic, while the other 25% is posed. And this doesn’t go for just weddings. Whether I am shooting the maternity shots for your first-born child or capturing that same child three years down the road, I want to encapsulate all that makes the child unique. Your life is more than what I can pose it to be, and that is what I look forward to documenting for you.

My Background… If You’re Curious

It all eventually comes full circle. Twelve years ago I gave up a photography scholarship to the Art Institute of Colorado because I wanted the full college experience. I graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder four years later with a degree in English, and an itch to pursue a career in journalism took me to New York

…chasing down sirens and interviewing the grieving was not the life for me

where I was a television-reporting intern for about nine months. But one cannot deny the pull of the Rocky Mountains, so after a year and a half away from home I returned to become a regional reporter for a CBS affiliate in Northern Colorado. As it turns out, chasing down sirens and interviewing the grieving was not the life for me.

So to complete my circle, here I am — right back where I was over a decade ago, camera in hand.