Thursday, September 17, 2009

Slide Show News

We've upgraded our slide shows! Bought into the commercial side of animoto (love these guys!) and can now offer you such cool slide shows. See our first show below! DVDs of your day for only $99 with Collections A & B. I am jazzed about this!

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Friday, September 04, 2009

a long, hot summer






Conner celebrated the end of summer vacation with a plunge at Larrabee!

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Class of 2010







I love summer seniors! No stress, no deadlines... just a lot of fun in the sun! Tonight's senior is Liz, from Squalicum. We crashed the beach and surrounding area in what I call "The No Tresspassing Zone."

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Seniors! Let the season begin...

As we launch into another year of high school seniors, I want to look back at some of our memorable spring sessions...








Thursday, April 09, 2009

Print Competition




Photo titles: "One Last Look at Home," "Generation X" and "Stormy."


Every spring I enter print competition with the Professional Photographers of America. Each of these three prints received a "worthy of merit" ribbon. In photographer's speak, we say "it hung," which means it qualified to be featured in a gallery of the best photos from Washington Photographers for the year. It's a short gallery - only open one day! It's really a peer thing, but it means a lot to each of us to see our images acknowledged and honored.

As a member of PPW, I spend a lot of time each year attending conferences and classes, always seeking to improve my skills and keep at the tip of the edge in technology and style in the swiftly changing field of photography. I hope my work reflects both my passion and my education. I'm doing this for you, my clients, to give you the best I can be. Thanks for trusting me with your portrait needs!

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

林 佩璇 from Taiwan with Pizazz





Lynden Christian High School always has a lot of exchange students - I love that! I was an exchange student in Germany 30 years ago. I still keep in touch with my host family. We also had a German exchange student 9 years ago - Karsten. He is our dear friend. We visited Karsten and his family and my host family when we traveled Europe in 2003. Karsten and his brother Matthias came to visit us, and Karsten ended up studying at U Victoria for a year. These are wondrous bonds with friends far away and from different cultures.
Lisa is from Taiwan, and one of about 30 exchange students in the LC school system. She's been here since 8th grade and I was privileged to take her senior pictures. She is full of life and the glow from within is so bright it spills out all over! You can guess I loved taking her photos!

Monday, February 23, 2009

A Fresh Start




Samuel jumped the gun on his entrance into the real world, but he's strong, healthy, and taking the world by smiles.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

LOVE is in the air






We've had the studio up and running for over a year now, and I've been tossing around the idea of doing studio specials. Well, I'm actually doing one these next three days! I will be photographing "Be My Valentine" photos. Details are on my regular web site - I'm posting here the sample Valentines I put together. The studio shots will be a blast - I went crazy buying hearts, pink princess dresses and cool red bandannas for the boys and "love" tattoos for their arms (something along the lines of "wild thing, you make my heart sing.") Gabe spray painted bows and arrows gold for me, in case I have any cupid wannabees! Come on by and get yourself in a Valentine!