I was recently going through photos from last year when these images from an engagement session caught my eye. It was a blustery day out on the pier by the aquarium (so blustery my light stand actually blew over!) but I love the gray skies and twinkling evening lights…
I had the pleasure of meeting Elizabeth at the end of last year, and what a beautiful baby girl! I took photos of her (as well as her parents, of course!) all around their home, front porch, and backyard on a pretty Sunday morning. Here are a few of my favorites from the session:
Sharlane is a friend and fellow wedding photographer and she’s in a really rough spot. Think cancer plus no health insurance plus young daughter to take care of, and you get the basic idea.
So some of her friends have put together a fundraiser, “We Heart Sharlane,” to help her out at this incredibly tough time. It’s happening at Sodo Park (3200 1st Avenue South, Seattle, WA. 98134) this Thursday the 4th from 7pm to 10pm. I’ll be there and I really hope you can come out as well! There’s a $10 suggested donation at the door, and there will be silent auctions as well, for art, chocolate, hotel stays, and more…see the whole list here. So come and help out a friend in need. And if you can’t make it tomorrow, you can donate online right here.
Gorgeous day, even more gorgeous bride, pink roses, doves, silly-hammy-fun family shots, champagne toasts, dancing, and a limo stop at Alki Beach for a final skyline photo…that’s what I think of when I look back at the photos from Aki & Joe’s awesome wedding at the Hall at Fauntleroy at the end of last summer. Here are a few of my faves.
A few months ago I photographed the student runway show of the New York Fashion Academy in Ballard. The students had worked incredibly hard for the big runway show, but my favorite part of the event was before the show began. I got to take behind-the-scenes photos of everyone getting ready, and it was fascinating. Here’s what was going on before the models stepped onto the catwalk.
I love watching families expand. I’ve photographed Emily, VK and Ela several times now and it was so fun to take photos with the new addition to their family, Ottie May! Here’s big sister Ela:
And new little sister Ottie May:
Since this session I did a very fun set of portraits with just Ela and Ottie Mae that was a surprise holiday gift to their dad! I’ll be posting that one shortly, so stay tuned…
This past year was a great one for me. I got married, traversed Scandinavia on my honeymoon, went camping, went to a bunch of baseball games, did some fun craft projects and some ridiculous baking, made candy for the first time (salted caramels!), started a second blog, helped Get hitched, Get Hope raise $37,000 for women with breast cancer, and marveled as my photography business had its biggest and best year yet.
After five years I continue to be completely in love with what I do, both the art of photography and the way I get to document some of life’s most important turning points: weddings, pregnancies, babies, kids growing up. There’s nothing quite like going over to a client’s house to photograph their newborn baby and seeing a wedding portrait that you took hanging on the wall. And so I want to thank all of you, my incredible clients, for making my photography a part of your lives.
I still have a few more 2009 weddings and portraits that haven’t yet made it onto the blog yet, and I’ll be putting them up in the weeks to come. But for today, here’s a look back at some of my favorites from the blog in 2009.
So the last time I photographed Abbey she was just six weeks old. Her six month shoot coincided nicely with Christmas photos, and here are the adorable results!
This cracked me up…at one point Abbey pulled her shoe off and started munching on it and her dad (who is a hilarious guy) took off his and pretended to munch on it too! Abbey was very curious about this.
And then everyone got in on the shoe eating fun! I love moments like this.
Thanks to all three of you for such a great shoot. And merry Christmas, happy holidays, and a wonderful new year to all my great blog readers!
Back in 2006 I had taken some photos for this family of their their son Oliver when he was a few months old; now there’s a new member of their family, Zora, and we took some new photos now that they’re four instead of three!
Emily and Ryan’s wedding day started out at the Alexis Hotel downtown…
…and they wanted to have their first look in the Bookstore Bar in the lobby of the hotel. It was a meaningful spot to them–they’d gone on several dates there when they first met. Ryan looked a little nervous…
…and then so excited to see Emily!
We took some portraits in the beautiful lobby of the Alexis…
…and restaurant…
…and then headed over to the Smith Tower. I don’t usually post formal family photos on the blog, but I thought this one of Emily, Ryan, and Ryan’s son Spencer was so cute I had to include it:
I love the view from the Smith Tower’s Chinese Room:
Then it was ceremony time:
And dancing time:
Believe it or not, Emily made that gorgeous fruit tart! Check out how flaky the crust was in the shot above…
DJ Austin Beaver kicked things into high gear and the dancing began for reals:
Emily and Ryan, thank you so much for having me photograph your wedding. And thanks also to Jennifer Richard, my second shooter extraordinaire.
