One of the best parts of being networked with other vendors in the wedding industry is getting to collaborate on fun photo shoots together! For this styled shoot, we worked with The Power of Love Rentals (http://www.powerofloverentals.com/) to add to our vintage citrus feel. Melanie Salazar at Delectable put together a “naked cake” for us...
Heritage High School in Vancouver is new, and massive. In the early morning light, the 3 baseball fields glisten with the dew on the grass and the fine layer of spiderwebs that cover every inch of the ground. Our breath glows in front of our faces as if we were smoke-breathing dragons. Into this scene...
I’ve known Grace since she was in the 7th grade. She was going to Portland’s DaVinci Arts Middle School while I was there working on a photographic project on adolescence. One day I looked out the classroom window and saw Grace down on the swingset, wearing a pearl necklace and jeans and Converse, looking a...
Well, I’ve only included one photo of Amanda with her cello here, but she does play one… I love creating unique, personalized senior portrait photographs like these, in Portland, Oregon, and beyond!
On Wednesday I had a portrait session scheduled with a young lady who is the younger sister of someone I had photographed a few years back. I waited at the Washington Park Rose Gardens for her to show up, enjoying the warm sunlight and the scent of the roses. After a while, her mom walks...
Portland high school senior portrait photography are just an excuse for me to take some really cool photos of cool young people, such as this young lady from Lake Oswego. That’s how I look at them, anyhow. Instead of me having to go and find models/subjects to shoot, they come to me….
High school senior portrait photographs can be rather dull and repetetive. That is, if you go to a studio that manufactures them like the Chinese manufacture plastic toys. I try to keep mine fresh and interesting, and try to do something different every time. This includes interesting lighting, which I got by the boatload yesterday:...