Portland Oregon Portrait and Wedding Photography Blog
Summer and Fall are portrait season, especially for high school senior portraits, and the phone has been ringing off the hook this past week for portrait photography sessions. I’m guessing it’s because we just redesigned the portrait section of our website. People are noticing our reasonable price, which is currently reflecting a $100 discount. They also notice how artistic…
Skamania Lodge holds a special place in my life. Not only is it a beautiful lodge set in my native state of Washington, overlooking the awe-inspiring Columbia River Gorge. But it is also the place my wife and I spent our wedding night, and it has been the site of several delightful family outings. (Their restaurant serves exceptional fare.) So…
I’m the oldest of 4 children, with three younger sisters. I’ve always liked having sisters, and, of course, I also liked being the oldest. For 7 years now, our family has had a sum total of one grandchild, my nephew Ryder. Well, all of a sudden it’s raining babies. My two youngest sisters, Beth and Evie, are both pregnant, and…
I have to say, I’ve never photographed a family that had 4 grown daughters, and all of them absolutely beautiful. But that was the case with Carla’s family. Must be something in the California water. She and Phil’s friends and family came together on Saturday to celebrate their marriage–and celebrate they did. It was a beautiful day for a wedding. …
Some people start their kids reading at a young age. Or counting. Or painting. But this little girl seems set on…gambling! Photographed at Portland’s Uptown Billiards, which turns out to be a great location for an indoor wedding, this little lady was quite the ham. She loved the camera. (Check here out in our PhotoBooth photos from this wedding!)…
We’ve sure been having fun with our PhotoBooth setup at weddings this year, and our customers have too! We shot a wedding this past weekend, and the Photo Booth was one of the main attractions. People start out stiff, and loosen up as we fire away. We even got the servers in on the action (and one of the girls…
Sometimes small and simple makes for beautiful results. Rachael and Jonathan’s wedding, at the Marshall House in Vancouver, Washington, sure proved this to be true. As a wedding photographer, the evening was ideal: beautiful location, beautiful light, and beautiful people. The results: one of the most beautiful sets of portraits I’ve probably ever created at a wedding. From the bride…
. Photographed a fun set of images of a couple of young women artists, at work and play in various art studios. Especially love the one of India pitching herself into the very very red-hot kiln. (Actually a cool kiln lit by a flash with a red gel over it, sitting inside, triggered by a radio slave….) Some lovely location…
Marjorie and Devlin are a couple who, in their own words, like to do things different. And they did. Getting married in downtown Portland, I have to admit they were the two most nervous people I’ve ever photographed before a wedding. But they had nothing to worry about: the wedding was beautiful, it was well coordinated by Rachelle Jacobs of…
. I pulled together a stock photography shoot recently with some great models, and a beautiful location. A friend has a beautiful little house in the Alberta Arts District, and she graciously offered to let me photograph there. So I had my assistant Dan, my kid-wrangler Beth, and models Diana, Sapphira, Sahar, and Shelby join me for an afternoon of…
Nicole and Fred are a lot of fun! We just booked their wedding this past Saturday, and they’re getting married in just 6 weeks. We’ll be photographing their wedding at her family home in Beaverton, Oregon. And I’m looking forward to it. Any beautiful woman that can laugh as easily as Nicole is a delightful subject for a photographer! We…
If you follow my blog, or know my photography at all, you know that I love photographing location portraits. I also really enjoy teaching. My upcoming summer photography class at Pacific Northwest College of Art, in Portland’s Pearl District, neatly melds the two: Location Portrait Photography can create stunning images of people in beautiful locations, from Bangladesh to your own…