Portraits: The Carters

Last time I was on the East Coast visiting my family, I had the chance to photograph the family of an old friend I’ve known since middle school.  She’s all grown up and has a husband two kids now, with a third on the way.  We went to the playground I always went to as a kid (hello, Macomb Street Playground!) and goofed around for a while taking photos of her adorable little girls.

The Outtakes

I was recently looking through a portrait shoot from last fall and it struck me that sometimes the outtakes are my favorite part…

Yesterday in the Park

Came across this pack of hula hoopers in Cal Anderson Park yesterday just before dusk.

Wedding: Tiffanie & Keith

Tiffanie & Keith found me through last year’s Get Hitched, Give Hope fundraiser—Tiffanie had won my wedding package in the silent auction—so I felt like this was a very special wedding for me to be doing. Their wedding was a very small one, just immediate family, and it was at the Timberline Lodge right by Mt. Hood in Oregon. It was a beautiful, sweet, and tiny wedding, with a ceremony that took place right in front of a blazing fire, and a blanket of snow outside that went halfway up the building. Here are a few of my favorites from the wedding.

Thanks, Tiffanie and Keith, for supporting Get Hiched, Give Hope, and for including me in your wedding.

The Other Side of the Camera

So I’ve been off the blog for a few weeks because I went and got married and spent two weeks hanging out in Scandinavia with my brand new husband. I’ll be posting images from some of my recent shoots soon, but in the mean time you can check out the awesome photos from the wedding that my own wedding photographer, Sean Flanigan, posted on his blog here. It was a new experience for me–being on the other side of the camera–and it definitely gave me some fresh insights into my own photography.

3 Weeks Away

I’m off to get married this weekend, and then I’ll be honeymooning for two weeks after that. So I’ll be back and blogging again starting on June 1st…see you then!

Engaged: Emily & Sam

This was one of those engagement sessions where it was basically impossible to pick which photos to post—I have way too many favorites.

We started out taking photos at a sweet little park in Queen Anne with Emily & Sam and their dog Coco. After the park we cruised around downtown hitting the Sculpture Park and Pike Place Market, where Emily and Sam got engaged. But my absolute favorite images from the shoot were the last ones we took, just after sunset, on a bridge near the International District. I’d been eyeballing the bridge for a while but I’d never shot on it before, and Emily & Sam were totally game to check it out—they were game for everything, really—and I just love the photos we got there. The dreamy twilight, the sparkling city lights, a sweet sweet couple in love… But enough words. Here are the photos from the session.

When life gives you giant foot graffiti, you make weird photos like this…

Emily & Sam, thank you for being SO great to work with—I had a blast and I can’t wait until February of 2010!

Jennie, Kris, and Jesse

Right before Christmas last year, I took some photos for my good friends Jennie, Kris, and their adorable daughter Jesse. (You might remember Jennie  and Kris from the getting ready photos I took before their wedding a few years back.) Here are my favorites from the day!

Moments like this crack me up:

Thanks to all three of you for being such great portrait subjects!

Wedding: Angela & Jack

At the end of last year I had my first wedding at the Shafer Baillie Mansion, a splendid bed & breakfast in a big sprawling Tudor mansion in Capitol Hill.

The building is stocked with grand, ornate furniture worthy of its beautifully detailed woodwork.

It was the perfect setting Angela and Jack’s small evening wedding.

Waiting for the ceremony to begin…

The toasts at Angela & Jack’s wedding were some of the most touching I’d heard.

Angela’s dad’s was especially sweet.

Thanks to Jennfier Richard for her beautiful work as my second shooter, and thank you to Angela and Jack for having me document your wedding.

Photographer: Chino Otsuka

Chino Otsuka photoshops her adult self into photos from her own childhood. You can see  a few of the images here on Wallpaper; I wish there were more to see!

Via Kottke.