Portland Oregon Portrait and Wedding Photography Blog
As Grace embarked on her senior year of high school, she wanted to commemorate this milestone with a special photo session that would capture her personality and the beauty of her surroundings. To ensure we captured artistic senior portraits, we chose George Rogers Park, located in Lake Oswego, Oregon, as the picturesque background. George Rogers Park offers stunning natural backdrops…
Kathryn and Justin’s engagement portrait photography session was such an adventure. We wanted to do their session at Wahclella Falls, in the Columbia River Gorge. But as we started the hike we quickly realized it wasn’t possible with all of the snow! So we quickly thought about what we could do. We decided to drive around on the historic highway…
It’s always fun to photograph dancers. Not just when they’re dancing, but…pretty much any time. We also love photographing senior portraits. So when we get to shoot a senior portrait session with a dancer, it’s even more fun! Emma is a senior at Portland’s Cleveland High School. She’s a trained dancer who loves ballet. However, after a life-changing experience of serving…
There is nothing like fall light in Portland for photographing senior portraits. It’s warm, low, and spectacular. Combine beautiful sunlight with a beautiful young lady with purple hair, and you have one fantastic senior portrait photography session! It was 45 degrees at Peninsula Park in NE Portland, where we took Casey’s senior photos, but that didn’t stop us from…
Madison and her mom drove over from Bend to Portland for her senior portraits–it’s always a high compliment to us when people travel several hours just to work with us for their portraits. And it was worth it! As you can see in the pictures, we had a great time together. Madison is also looking at colleges, and toured Portland…
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…
Mariah called me from Molalla, asking about unique senior portraits. She said she didn’t want pictures that looked like those of all her friends at school; I told her I could help her out with that. And it wasn’t hard–she’s pretty, funny, and laughs a lot, which makes taking beautiful, unique portraits that much easier!She also wanted some portraits with…
We spent a day recently on a lake, in a boat, with Shannon and her husband, creating some photographs for her modeling portfolio. We ended up with a lot of great images photographed on their boat, on their classic red motorcycle, in the trees, and in the water. Rather than share the whole set of images, I just wanted to…
The day hadn’t started out very well for Lois… First of all, there was the suit. When Lois asked Clark if he was going to wear a suit for the wedding, he said, “Yes.” She didn’t know he meant the suit. She’d argued with him: If Clark wanted to get married, why not just wear a tux like a normal…
The current issue of Oregon Bride Magazine features several of our wedding photographs. One of them is featured in the Best Wedding Photos of the Year section, and this is the story behind the photograph: Dayn and Mandi are a very creative, fun-loving couple. They held their wedding in a county park outside of Portland, and it was one of…
Let me start off with a story, from the Rhythm Traders website: A drummer since the age of eight, company founder Brad Boynton set off in 1990, for a nine month trip to West Africa, with a degree in Anthropology and his backpack. He chose Africa because it appeared to be the epicenter of rhythm itself. Whether it was American…
Five years ago, I had the privilege of photographing the wedding of Jason and Judy Pearce. I’d known Jason from the musical group he was part of, Rescue, whom I’d photographed for one of their albums. Jason was marrying this beautiful woman, Judy, and at the same time inheriting three beautiful children. Well, believe it or not, the middle child…