Matt Theilen Photography

julie + marc at heavenly

Matt — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:19:13 +0000

TJaye and I got to photograph Julie and Marc’s wedding at Lakeside Beach in South Lake Tahoe and then we rode the tram up to the top of Heavenly for the reception. Beautiful!

Thank you guys so very much for having us photograph you. Here’s a few of our favs from the day.

val + brandon at North Lake Tahoe Events Center

Matt — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:39:27 +0000

I met Val last year when she took one of my photo classes. A great photographer in her own right–she asked me to photograph her and Brandon’s wedding. TJaye and I were honored to be guests at their rehearsal dinner and also to photograph their wedding–they are an amazing couple.

Thank you guys so much for having us! We had a fantastic time!

m+t

sonia + wayne

Matt — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:24:55 +0000

I met Sonia and Wayne this past winter when we were lucky enough to schedule our engagement session right after a snowstorm…that was just the beginning of serendipitous weather for us

The wedding day started out with some clouds building over Tahoe and I knew we were going to have some good light in the evening. Tjaye and I met Sonia at the Embassy Suites in South Lake where the traditional Indian ceremony was going to happen in the atrium. Indian ceremonies are some of the best wedding ceremonies to photograph–this one was especially amazing because Sonia and Wayne are…well…amazing! We then had a Chinese ceremony during lunch and then moved to the MS Dixie II for a more traditional Western ceremony out on Lake Tahoe. The clouds kept building and building and then it rained and hailed and then the sun poked out right before it went down over the mountains–the light doesn’t get any better than that.

This was truly a multi-cultural and multi-ceremonial day–Beautiful, just beautiful!

Thank you guys so much–we were honored to be there.

Here’s a sneak peek…

brandon + liz

Matt — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:51:37 +0000

TJaye and I met Brandon and Liz last year and we went out for a hike to do some engagement photos near Brandon’s family cabin in Christmas Valley. The late spring this season left us with more green than usual for their awesome wedding at the family cabin. We then moved to the Tahoe Paradise for their intimate reception on Lake Tahoe.

Here’s a couple photos:

natalie + renee’ — edgewood

Matt — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 23:02:50 +0000

Two of the most beautiful people in the world. TJaye and I were witness to so much love and connection last weekend. We met Nat and Renee’ in the early spring and made some family/engagement photos and then they made their way up to Tahoe to have their ceremony at the end of July. If I could just describe the whole thing in one word, it would be: Wow. We’ve made some life-long friends once again

Thank you guys so much for having us photograph you — here’s a couple of our favorites:

above photo by TJaye

A day off…

Matt — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:58:09 +0000

Yesterday, Riley and I took a lightning trip to Tuolemne Meadows to run out and climb Matthes Crest. 11 miles round trip hike with a one mile long climb. This was Riley’s first back country peak. Of course we toted cameras along just for fun. Here’s a few shots–my legs are a little tired

naomi + john

Matt — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:38:21 +0000

I met Naomi and John last summer and we met for an engagement session up at Lake Alpine–where they have a cabin in the woods. The week of the wedding, Naomi surprised John with a hot air balloon ride out in Fernley, Nevada. Riley and I went out to make some photographs and got a lucky ride in the balloon and made some fun photos and some video of our crash landing. Two days later, TJaye and I got to photograph their wedding at Round Hill Pines. These two are beautiful!

a couple of squares

Matt — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:34:35 +0000

Since we moved to Washoe Valley in March of 2008, I’ve been making an effort to make photographs of this beautiful place for a future exhibit and possible book. It has so much character: a lake, streams, sand dunes, desert, forests, mountains, boulders, ranches, cattle, horses, and I haven’t even begun to photograph on the East side of the lake…

I made these two images on my new Hasselblad camera. The images were made on Kodak Tmax 100 and Fuji NPC 160.

A quick thought about film and prints:

Film and paper prints are made from organic materials (pretty much) and digital images are “virtual” and don’t really exist anywhere until they are processed onto a tangible object like paper. As an artist who began making photographs before digital was viable, I have a greater appreciation for what the image looks like on paper than what it looks like on a computer screen…perhaps I’m just old school

Square and Film are In

heather + chad

Matt — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 04:30:04 +0000

We had the honor of photographing Heather and Chad’s wedding at Montreaux in Reno, Nevada this past weekend–what a beautiful couple and an awesome ceremony. Planning was done by Premiere Events and Design , who were so awesome to work with! The day was simply amazing…here’s a sneak peak…

PS: you guys rule!

christina + eric

Matt — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 04:30:23 +0000

Tara and I made our way up to King’s Beach to photograph Christina and Eric’s wedding. These two are some of the coolest and most laid back peeps. Check out a few shots