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!

It's too darn hot to do anything but take pictures

Yep, it's almost 2am but I'm having a hard time sleeping because it is so ridiculously hot here. We have to keep our windows shut too cause someone down the street is burning stuff...fantastic.
Anyway, today I had an awesomely fun day having a photoshoot with two of my closest friends at home: Katie and Caryn. We drove around various places in the neighborhood and had tons of fun, even though we were dealing with 90° temps and stinging nettles as well :) Here's a quick, unedited look!

My first paid senior portrait shoot!

Yesterday I got to take some senior portraits for a Mill Creek senior named Valerie. It was such a blast! She wanted to take some pictures with her horse, Dane, so I drove up to the barn in Snohomish. After an hour in the 80° sun, Dane started to get a little tired of it all, so we took some single shots of Valerie. They sort of turned out a little different than my usual style, as it was a new experience for me to work with animals and people as well as I was trying to capture her personality. Here's a little sneak peek at some of the pictures :)

Seattle for old time's sake

Eva and I went into Seattle today to hang out at her mom's work, go to Pike Place Market and the waterfront and of COURSE take pictures! So here are today's results:






I had Eva take one of me as well!

A Client Shoot of sorts...

Today I had a photoshoot for my friend Paige and her two boys, Casey (4) and Will (<1). She is planning on printing these and giving them as a gift. It was a lot of fun, and a great to actually get out and take pictures of kids over 10 years younger than me! It turns out it's easier to take pictures of babies because they don't move as much as kids do. These are some of my favorites.

A train ride and the fair

This weekend I got to go home to go to the Evergreen State Fair with Iris and Eva. Of course it turned into a photoshoot!!! And on the train ride home, I made Alicia pose for an awesome trainy photo.