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...
I get to photograph some of the coolest people. Rosemary lives up in Mt Hood, above Hood River, and goes to Hood River High. At 18, she’s already a trained volunteer fire fighter. Can you believe that? This girl has spunk, and it shows. She likes the outdoors, Toyota trucks, and her dad’s choppers. She...
Kelsey lives in Woodland and goes to Woodland High School. She was telling me that she didn’t want the same standard senior portrait photographs that all her friends have, so she called me. She wanted someone who approached high school senior portraits more as an artist. I think I did her proud by creating some...
Rose loves to laugh! In fact, it was hard not to take a photograph of her not smiling or laughing. As a senior at St Mary’s Academy, Rose has been a varsity volleyball player, until a recent injury put her on the sidelines. But that hasn’t kept her from a tour of Europe with her...
Last year I began offering Model Portfolio Photography packages, as a way to help budding models build a quality portfolio which they can show to agencies, reps, and photographers. This past week, we created a lovely set of images for Shakira Williams, a new model in Portland. After an hour with our in-house hair and...
Starlinda (such a beautiful name!) goes to De La Salle High School, in Portland. As we emailed each other over the past couple weeks, planning for her senior portrait session, we decided on an urban setting, and headed to the Pearl District. With the assistance of her inseparable friend Sky (Star and Sky…what a beautiful...
Nicole told me she was bored with the senior portrait photographers she found in Salem, her home town, where she goes to Blanchet. So when she and her mom started searching for more creative, artistic portrait photographers, they decided on me. They drove up from Salem to Portland in the pouring rain, and we had...