Model Portfolio Update Photos
These two local models contacted me looking to expand and update their portfolios. I asked if they’d mind going down to the docks and hanging out until dusk so I could play with my new portable flash. Outdoor lighting is a new thing for me, this year. In the past I’ve done almost 100% available [...]
Dynamic Toddler Photo Session
Toddlers are certainly forces of nature. When I head out to a toddler portrait session, I prepare myself for all possibilities. Depending on the day and time, a photographer might encounter anything! Some toddlers are so shy that mom’s hand or leg is in every shot while others are so eager to get moving that [...]
Urban Sweetheart Couples Session
I had a fabulous time with the sweetheart sessions booked through my Valentine’s Day free session promotion. I’ve just got to share this one as it was so much fun! These guys were up for anything, including standing on a giant pedestal in downtown Portland and letting me set up lights and put them literally [...]
Past Maternity Session Reminds Me Why I Take Photos
Every portrait session is unique in its energy, its purpose, and its style in the moment. I love sitting down and looking through the photography that I’ve captured, but it’s just that much more rewarding when the photos find their way back to me again. If you’ve had doubts about why it’s important to allow [...]
Free Sweetheart Session!
Getting couples together for a portrait session not only results in a beautiful keepsake, but helps those two people to see their relationship, each other and their emotions from an outside perspective that they don’t see for themselves every day. And that can be quite a gift to give. Be sure to post this link [...]
First Birthday Cake Photos
Kids change so much during their first years, and the first birthday is an exciting one because the whole experience is brand new! Last weekend I had the joy of documenting little Kaylee’s first birthday cake encounter. She took it like a champ, and was very thoughtful about the whole thing. I was expecting a [...]
First Birthday Cake
Kids change so much during their first years, and the first birthday is an exciting one because the whole experience is brand new! I was expecting a bit more mess, honestly, but she ate like a princess… for the most part. I did manage to capture some frosting on her darling face, though, and we [...]
What To Wear For Your Portrait Session
Many people ask me what to wear to their portrait session. Fortunately, or unfortunately, there is not a simple answer to this question! Different sessions call for different styles and color pallets. Let me show you what I mean… Maternity sessions are a prime example. It’s easy to go with the basic which is black. Simple [...]
Cape Cod Wedding Photos
I adore casual wedding assignments. This wedding was a beautiful traditional Jewish wedding on the shoreline at Cape Cod in Massachusetts. The family prepared everything, the food, flowers, cake and decorations. The bride and groom welcomed me into their day and treated me like family and as a result I was allowed to capture some [...]
New Year Maternity Session
I had the pleasure of taking portraits of this beautiful woman in the last stages of her pregnancy. Her due date was January 1st, but as far as I know she’s still waiting on the little one to show up! I love doing these late-term pregnancy pictures, because I know they will be so fun [...]
Holiday Party Photo Booth Mania!
I had a great job this past weekend at a holiday party. The hostess said “I just want some fun pictures”, so I suggested setting up a sort of photo booth in the basement. I brought lights and encouraged people to have fun with it, and the results are some really spectacular photographs that are [...]
Being Visible: Serravision Video Production!
Today I had a multi-purpose photo session! I took some ridiculously adorable photographs of these two little ones while I was filmed and a few other former clients were interviewed in order to produce a short promotional video for Serravision Photography. As a photographer who’s used to being able to come home and look at [...]
Photography Is For The Dogs
My Halloween was spent in the park shooting holiday card portraits with this lovely couple and their two gorgeous dogs! These guys were just the nicest clients one could hope for, and I love the outfits they chose. I always say my clients dress better than I ever could have told them to if I’d [...]
School Dance Photography
I don’t do a lot of large events, but I’ve been working with Jonah Gilmore of Rocket Science Photography on some high school dances this year, and it’s been a whole lot of fun! I don’t know about you, but I remember my school dance pictures and I am almost embarrassed to think about them. With my [...]
Studio Head Shots
I did my first in-home-studio session yesterday. They’re just standard business head shots, but I’m excited because you’d never know I wasn’t in the studio!
Solstice Wedding Photography
After their many happy years together already, I was honored to capture this couple’s absolutely perfect wedding day, many, many more years of happiness await you both.
Engagement Photos Around Portland
This beautiful couple is getting married this summer, I had so much fun taking them down to the waterfront for engagement photos! We walked all around and managed to do a variety of urban settings. I couldn’t include nearly as many as I would have wanted to since they all came out so well! I [...]
Nature-Based Head Shots
I believe that business head shots should really represent an individual, and should say something about their business itself. So when I was asked to take some head shots for my neighbor, who does healing, community building and gardening, it was an obvious choice to go to her garden.
Mesh Pro Band Publicity Photos
I did a promotional shoot yesterday with Mesh Pro, a local Portland-area indie hip hop band. I love working with groups and being creative. Having 5 adults in a shot is not always easy and I had to get inventive with ways to put them on different planes and levels. It was fun playing with [...]
Senior Portraits At The Willamette
Senior Portraits are so funny. Sometimes the student is excited and wants to make the session go really well and other times it’s all for the parents. I got lucky with this young woman, a senior whose portraits I took last month. I took her out to the river and really loved how her colors [...]
Senior Portraits in the Studio
It’s so much fun, and such a challenge, to meet a young person and in 10-15 minutes deduce who they are, who they want to portray themselves as, and build enough rapport that they trust you not to embarrass them. I met this senior and instantly liked her. She had that tough persona but such [...]
Urban Esplanade Model Portfolio Pictures
Having just moved to the Portland area, I wanted to explore new locations to shoot. The bridges, railroads, river, skyline and industrial architecture made for some very interesting frames. I love having the freedom to shoot creatively and capture photographs that are unusual in content and composition. Much of the time, when I’m doing portrait [...]
Baby Photography Is All About Toes Today!
There is something delightful about toes to a baby, and about a baby playing with his or her toes to a parent. Photographers are not immune to this! One of my favorite ages to photograph a baby is just after they discover their toes. Many parents do newborn pictures and then they do first birthday [...]
Children’s Photography In The Park
I like to play in these situations and take more traditional shots with everyone smiling and looking at the camera as well as more non-traditional shots that are more like a slice of life and then put them together.
