Horsing Around!

A long awaited photo session took place with Mary today! Michelle and I drove down to the Canby Equestrian Center this morning (passing a really cool tree farm that looked like something straight out of Dr. Seuss land!). I had lots of fun hanging out with all the horses (and Indy too) and got some fun shots! Of course, we did some pictures of Mary and her mom, Lydia too! It was a good experience for me to work with people and animals again, as well as trying to hide a broken wrist :(!!! Thanks Mary for being a good sport and letting us take over the barn...and letting me boss you around to take pictures ;)! Below are some of my favorites, and you can see more pictures of the horses (and pals): here!

This was the horse I always wanted when I was little!:

Horse attitude:

Auntie Mary and Phantom:

Mission Accomplished

After spending a few hours assisting with the local professional photographer I've worked with before, I was inspired to get Emily's senior pictures completely done :) Now all I have to do is send this:

Emily also asked me to mentor her for her senior project, involving photography so I'm really looking forward to helping her out with that too! :)

Senior Pictures with Another Emily!

I was so excited to hear that Emily wanted me to do her senior pictures! I drove up to the Seattle area last Friday but had been scoping out potential locations all week. Finally, I decided to suggest a park that I used go to a lot as a kid. With a cool silo that had been converted into a bathroom, lots of barns, fields and woods, I figured we would have a lot of options. And we did!!! It was great to get to know Emily (she's into photography too--we don't just share a name)! She was up for anything including standing in a creek, field full of crickets and having her picture taken in front of a bunch of families out at the park. We even had some fun taking pictures in the "alien tree" we found in the woods.
I am not done with all of them (in fact this is pretty much it :-/), but I just wanted to share the few I've had a chance to retouch because Emily was great to photograph! I hope she enjoys these pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them!





Here is Emily and the alien tree! ;)

Another Senior Session...coming soon :D

So it's already September! Ahhhh! Schoolwork has pretty much blindsided me, but never fear, because I always have time for a photo session (or I make time at least). This past weekend I drove up to the Seattle area for another senior session with a Mill Creek senior named Emily! I had such a blast and am struggling to do homework and not to go through and retouch the 31 images I pulled out from the masses (usually I do 10 to 20 images, but Emily was a great subject and the location had so many options)! So I will leave you with this one preview image and the knowledge that a larger and much more detailed preview is on the way!