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Welcome to the Dreamtime Images blog - thanks for stopping by! Dreamtime is run by me, Nathan Welton, the guy in the tree over to the right. My wedding images have won nearly two dozen international awards and have appeared in numerous magazines and blogs. I've been fortunate enough to shoot weddings everywhere from Napa to the Florida Keys to Belize to Norway. A few years ago I was named an Our World Photographer for Sigma, one of the world's largest camera manufacturers, and the images I shot with Sigma-provided lenses were used in global advertising campaigns. Most importantly, I'm a profoundly lucky husband who recently married the love of his life.

My wife, who's Scandinavian, and I split our time between Norway and Colorado, and I'm currently booking weddings worldwide. In my free time, I shoot landscapes and outdoor sports. You can swing by my Outdoor and Lifestyle Photography blog to check out some of my latest images.

Feel free to drop a line to set up a time to chat or even Skype -- I'd love to meet you and hear all about your big day.

A PRETTY FRICKEN AWESOME DAY | Green Cards & Fearless Photos

April 23, 2012

Today’s been a pretty fricken awesome day. I’ve got the biggest smile on my face and a feeling of lightness in my body, and I have to tell the world.

I write from Stockholm, where we traveled for our green card interview for my wife, Rannveig. She’s now legal! A convoluted and extremely stressful year-long immigration process has now come to a close, and it feels like an enormous weight has been lifted from our shoulders. Seeing the consular officer bring out our three inch thick immigration packet was pretty emotional for me. I had flashbacks to the weeks on end I spent working on it, collecting every document on the planet, double, triple, quadruple checking every last tick box and signature line, and stressing out like I never have before should I screw something up and be separated from Rannveig by a really big ocean and a whole lot of red tape. It’s been the most epic process of my life.

The lady smiled at us, asked us a couple of questions, and wished us well as she sent us on our merry way. That’s it? I asked. We’re done?

It was so anticlimactic I started laughing, but DAMN!

THIS FEELS GOOD!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

The icing on today’s cake came after a wandering the streets of Old Town Stockholm with our heads in the clouds. I learned the results of the 9th Fearless Photographers awards contest. Fearless is a really awesome organization of about 900 wedding photographers, and the Fearless Awards are given out to super cool pictures. There are no placings and no lower or upper limit of awards per contest. Judges (a panel other Fearless members) simply pick photos they deem worthy, and the whole thing is blinded so nobody knows who shot what.

I joined Fearless about a month ago and and just heard the results of the first contest I participated in. About 5 percent of the submissions won an award, and five of those shots were mine. Pretty stoked about that.

If you want to check some super inspiring wedding photography, swing on over to the Fearless gallery from Round 9. The stuff in there wasn’t just mind blowing — it’s mind blasting. For Russell Peters fans out there, let me say it again: mind BLASTING!

Meanwhile, catch ya on the flip side. We’re going to Turkey for a week of celebratory rock climbing on some beautiful limestone, surrounded by pomegranate and apricot orchards.

HUATULCO WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS | Irina + Danny | Huatulco, Mexico

April 13, 2012

Irina and Danny came all the way from Canada to get married in Huatulco, an off the beaten little resort area on Mexico’s Pacific Coast. Flying in on a little prop plane over was huge mountains was awesome. They had a spectacular celebration at the Secrets Resort, and I was down there for three or four days to capture all sorts of fun moments on boat trips and beach days. It was a super fun wedding to shoot becuase of the super strong connection between everyone. Here are some favorites from the wedding day itself.

ENGAGEMENT PHOTOGRAPHY IN COLORADO | Sara + Nick | Estes Park, CO

April 11, 2012

Here are a couple of faves from Sara and Nick’s recent engagement session. These guys were total troopers, hanging out with me in a frigid parking lot well past sunset to get this first image. Fun times, though a bit cold. I’m super excited for the wedding this July — maybe we’ll re-create it in the summer when it’s above freezing!

AWARD-WINNING WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY :: WPJA Year End Contest

March 30, 2012

The Wedding Photojournalist Association just released the results of its most recent year-end contest for 2011 and I was thrilled with 7 awards in total, bringing the annual count up to 8, and my career count up to 27. Three images won blue medals by placing in the top five within a category, and two images won gold medals by placing in the top three. Pretty stoked about this. The competition has become absolutely fierce as the organization has expanded and matured in recent years. Check out all the winners here.

The first image here placed second in the Found Details category:

This one won a 20th place in Emotion:

And an 11th place in Found Details:

This image placed 5th in the Ceremony category. The bride and groom are my dear friends Kristin and Yishai, who run and operate an adventure racing company and a climbing gym in San Luis Obispo. It’s only fitting that the path to the cereony was cordoned off by climbing rope and they’re charging back to the reception, where, I should note, the centerpieces were made of climbing holds.

This image placed 3rd in the Groom Getting Ready category.

I love this shot from a wedding in the Bahamas last May, which was 10th in Creative Portraits.

And last, my 11th place finisher for the Food and Drinks category from Larry and Laura’s wedding in Tulum.

WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS TULUM | Mexico Weddings | Jaime & Ben

February 18, 2012

Wow, there are a lot of images in this post. Sorry if it takes a while to load, and apologies for being behind in blogging.

Anyway, here’s a beautiful destination wedding from Tulum, Mexico in late November, just a week after Larry and Laura had their wedding at Ana Y Jose.

I’ll let the pictures do the talking and try to keep it brief, but it was a really touching few days. Lots of really amazing connections between everyone, and a lot of emotion and love. And a curious lizard who thankfully didn’t run off with the rings (check out the second to last pic). It was a real treat to photograph.

I also had the privilege of working with Malisa, a former client (check out her wedding photos in Tulum) and intrepid traveler who now runs her own destination wedding planning firm. She is an incredible resource to anyone planning a destination wedding.