Portland Oregon Photographer and Artist

FritzPhoto Wins 2012 Wedding Wire Bride’s Choice Award

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Portland Oregon Award Winning Wedding Photographers

{Portland,OR} – January 24, 2012 – WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding Marketplace, is excited to announce Fritz Photography has been selected to receive the prestigious WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2012 for Photography!

The esteemed annual awards program recognizes the top local wedding vendors from the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism within the wedding industry. While many industry awards are selected by the organization, Fritz Photography was selected based on its stellar reviews from past newlywed clients.

Fritz Photography is recognized as part of the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire local vendor community, comprised of over 200,000 wedding professionals throughout the United States and Canada. The Bride’s Choice Award recognizes the best local wedding vendors across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, based on their overall professional achievements throughout the past year.

“WeddingWire is thrilled to honor the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community,” said Timothy Chi, CEO, WeddingWire. “Since the launch of the Bride’s Choice Awards™ program four years ago, thousands of outstanding wedding professionals have been recognized by the bridal community for their supreme service and dedication to the wedding industry. It is with great pleasure that we congratulate Fritz Photography for their continued professionalism and commitment to enriching the wedding planning experience for engaged couples.”

We are happy to announce that Fritz Photography is one of the very best Photographers within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Project Wedding, Brides.com, Martha Stewart Weddings, and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for taking the time to review our business on WeddingWire. Thanks to their positive feedback we were able to receive the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ for 2012!

Posted in Wedding Photography

by fritzphoto

no comments

add a comment

link to this post

email a friend

Love In Action

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Doesn’t that lady have one of the best smiles in the entire world? That’s my wife.

Some of my favorite work involves photographing children in orphanages. These kids have had rougher lives by age 4 than most of us have in a lifetime. So having a day or a week to play with, talk with, encourage, and photograph them is a blessing. I love to make them laugh.

These photos are taken at Love In Action, a home for orphaned, abused, and homeless children in Chapala, Mexico. My good friend Summer Phillips (below) lives and works there, and it’s been an absolute pleasure to support her this week. She works so very hard for these kids in an orphanage that is regularly understaffed and underfunded. But she loves it, and she makes a difference. A big difference.

I’d encourage you to support Love in Action. You can visit them on the web at www.loveinactioncenter.org.

Some of my favorite photographs of myself involve me being strangled by kids. I have photos like this from all over the world, and they make me smile every time I see them:

Visit Love in Action’s website (soon to be revamped with my photographs, and a new site design), and support them with a donation: www.loveinactioncenter.org.

Posted in Documentary Photography, Mexico, Travel Photography

by fritzphoto

no comments

add a comment

link to this post

email a friend

Introducing Model Teresa Havens * Modeling Portfolio Photography

Friday, November 25, 2011

We had a great time working with new model Teresa Havens, creating a new portfolio for her budding modeling career. After working with our hair and makeup artist, we went on location in Portland for a photo shoot, with a variety of outfits and looks. Teresa is a lot of fun to work with, and those lovely eyes (photographed above with a Lensbaby) are so striking.

We love creating model portfolios and model test shoots, in Portland, Oregon, and around the world. (See some of our work with model portfolios on the Florida beaches.) We photograph for modeling agencies and private models; models we’ve photographed at the start of their careers are now working models in New York, Los Angeles, as well as Portland. Contact us today to schedule your modeling photography session!

Posted in Model Photography

by fritzphoto

no comments

add a comment

link to this post

email a friend

A Beautiful Wedding Day at Lakeside Gardens

Thursday, November 10, 2011

On a simply perfect summer day these beautiful friends came together with their nearest and dearest to celebrate and share their love at Lakeside Gardens in Portland. The bride was stunning in pin curls and orange roses while the groom did his best blue steel (he says he doesn’t smile much…but I came to find out that’s kind of a fib…). When he’s happy he smiles a ton. And he was very happy.

It was a honor and a joy to share your wedding day with you… blessings and happiness in your new life together!

~Gretchen

We love to tell love stories.

www.fritzphoto.com

Posted in Gretchen, Lakeside Garden, Wedding Photography

Hayden’s Senior Portraits * Portland Senior Pictures

Sunday, November 6, 2011

I had a great time photographing Hayden Richardson’s senior photos in the October sunshine this past week, in Northeast Portland. Hayden’s a lot of fun to work with and talk with, and has an interest in photography, among other things. And man, did we luck out with the perfect fall weather for a senior portrait photo shoot!

I love photographing senior portraits. See more of my Portland senior portrait photography on the website!