Annabelle Denmark Photography

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How photographs can help shed new light on the past

Spoiler Alert : Pictures of me as a kid :) How photographs can help shed new light on the past

I just came back from a trip to Europe where I spent ten days in Denmark and Scotland, and a week in France. When I go to France I mostly visit my family, it is always an intense experience of picking up where we had left off, accepting that since my last visit everyone has changed and grown. We try to quickly get used the multiplying grays and wrinkles and find our common ground again. I see my…

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Passage of time For the past couple of lifetimes. And every day as it seems. Everything has a sharp edge to it.

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Still water runs deep

Protected: Still water runs deep

“Do you know how it feels when someone passes a pencil eraser on your scalp?  I used to love it.  My life feels like this to me.”

Louie is sitting on an Alpaca rug, digging his finger through the soft wool.

“What would you say to yourself from 10 years ago?”

“That the juice is worth the squeeze”. He looks at me, waiting. “That’s it,” he says. Time stops for a moment as his sense of…

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The Snow

Third Law opens the summer series at the Arvada Center

3RD LAW OPENS  THE ARVADA CENTERS’ SUMMER SERIES One Night Only on June 1

Snow is falling from the ceiling. Dancers, dressed in white, move delicately, dancing in and out of the lights. The music is gentle, simple. The space feels eerie. I feel the emotions rolling back and forth from the stage to Katie Elliott, who is sitting four rows behind me. I wonder what she is thinking as she watches her…

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Abby

Abby is a singer and songwriter with Bon bon Vivant. During the session she had a different story to tell.

“Abby, tell me, how do you feel about hose pictures?”

There is an open photo album sitting on my lap with the memories of Abby’s teenage years. The serious and awkward looking teenager on the pictures contrasts starkly with the woman sitting next to me. She is tall with wild black hair and piercing blue eyes. She speaks with  a smokey voice, her tattooed hands dance around the music of her…

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The Rivers

The Rivers, an Iluminar Aerial production

There is a place for art in everything we do, every breath we take. However at times we need a refill of passion and inspiration that takes us to new spaces in our heads. Iluminar is my pool of inspiration and this week end, floating between dress rehearsals and going through 1000s of images, I have had one foot in the world and one foot in the “other” space. Even my family knows that I can’t…

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To the Ends

To the Ends, an Iluminar Too Youth Company production

Presented by Iluminar Aerial’s Too Youth Company

Emmy Moon has a gift that goes beyond her incredible strength, grace and technique as an aerial dancer. She is a woman with a vision that takes the form of story telling on stage. Her latest creation, To the Ends, is inspired by the classic story, Orpheus and Eurydice. It takes you on a dark journey into the Underworld.

Be prepared for epic…

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Sabrina / Selena

Sabrina/Selena, an empowering session with Sabrina Montoya. Makeup by Daja Vu Makeup and Flowers by Blumenhaus Denver.

“I am both Native American and Latina, I love to empower minority women to love themselves inside and out” – Sabrina Montoya

This authentically feminine and empowering session started with natural make up (@dajavumakeup) for Sabrina – a model, actress, and singer based in Denver, CO.

For second half of the session, Sabrina embodied Selena Quintanilla, a Mexican-American singer and…

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Mark

Mark's portrait session

“I create because it allows me to move between worlds. Ever since I was a young child I’ve been aware of an other world that can be experienced outside our physical and five senses. My art allows me the ability to travel into this world, experience all it has to offer, and bring it into a physical form.”

Mark is an artist based in Boulder, CO

Check out his incredible work : ht…

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Duet Series

Duet Series, a performance created by Soulskin Dance and Miriam Barbosa Dance

Miriam Barbosa Dance + Soulskin Dance

When I photograph dancers I feel like a moth attracted to the light . They are magical beings to me, telling me a story with their body. After 7 years I haven’t gotten over this feeling of wonder. I will write this in French because English doesn’t give it justiceM

Je suis constamment émerveillée par ces danseurs magnifiques

Duet Series took place…

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The Grimm Forest Tale

The Grimm Forest Tale, An Aerial production featuring Iluminar Aerial's Adult Student Company and Flyers Youth Company.

An Aerial production featuring Iluminar Aerial’s Adult Student Company and Flyers Youth Company

This production allows for the Flyer and ASC to showcase the incredible skills they have collected since August. It takes place at the Iluminar’s training center and the audience is brought face to face with the performers and the large crew surrounding them.

Some of the photographs displayed…

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Summit

Summit: Lorraine and Aaron's 11 yellow lab

Summit is Lo and Aaron’s 11 year Labrador Retriever extraordinaire.

He loves his humans and he loves dog cookies. Also he is a really good looking fellow.

Headshots are not just for humans, message me to book your loved ones’ pictures!

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Obstinate Pearl

3rd Law Theater with Venice on Fire, a Collaboration with the Boulder Bach Festival present Obstinate Pearl at the Dairy in Boulder, April 5,6,7.

3rd Law Dance Theater with Venice on Fire

A Collaboration with the Boulder Beach Festival,

April 5,6,7 at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder CO

Boulder Bach Festival artistic Director : Zachary Carretin

3rd Law Artistic co-directors : Katie Elliott & Paul Fowler

Dancers include:

Jennifer Aiken, Patrick Blaisure, Case Bodamer, Jennifer DePalo-Peterson, Danielle Hendricks, Page…

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Luna

  “I tell stories through movement because words are often not enough.”

“I share my thoughts and emotions through my style because it keeps my heart clear and could encourage others to share themselves as well.”

Luna Minuit is an aerial and ground dancer for Iluminar Aerial and In the Wings in Colorado. She is a goth of color, speaker, song writer and civil right defender.

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Rushi and Dan's colorful Wedding at the Gatehouse

Rushi and Dan’s colorful Wedding at the Gatehouse

Rushi and Dan’s wedding was a marvel of textures and colors, from the beautiful buildings at the Lion’s Gate event center in Lafayette, CO to Rushi’s traditional gown, her Jewelry, her wedding party. Everyone of Rushi and Dan’s friends and family gracefully took part of this amazing wedding, enjoying each other culture and traditions.

Rushi, Dan, thank you so much for having Brian and I over to…

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Epic engagement session at St Mary's Glacier

Epic engagement session at St Mary’s Glacier

Amy and Russ’ engagement session

“You guys, it is cold, we have a steep hike ahead of us, this is going to be a crazy adventure. Amy do you have hiking shoes? no? just ballerina shoes? that should work too”

St Mary’s glacier trail is a step and quick 20 minutes hike. I was carrying a heavy camera backpack, Amy sported her ballerina shoes, athlete hikers were glaring at her, torn between laughing…

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A romantic engagement session in the mountain

Love + bravery + long white dress = epic and romantic engagement session in the mountain

Nick and Ashley look like they have lived their entire lives in Colorado. They embrace the hiking-rock climbing adventure seeking lifestyle that I have rarely seen in even the most outdoor loving couples I have worked with and yet….they are both from Louisiana 🙂  Ashley and Nick have chosen Colorado as the…

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