Kelly & Sean are getting married soon. But first, we created some engagement portraits at the Washington Park Arboretum! It was great to get to know them better and take some photographs in the sun!
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Marta and Steve met on a climbing trip. They then went on many more adventures featuring Steve’s van. So, naturally, we featured the van during their wedding day as well. After taking some portraits around Seattle and the waterfront, we ended up back at Occidental Square for a pop-up wedding with friends!
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Leo and Shawn had a small wedding at the very cool Manresa Castle in Port Townsend. It is a beautiful place that is also supposed to be haunted. They were married by a rabbi that has just finished a book on Jewish mysticism and magic. Just before the wedding there was a beautiful corona around the sun. Happy wedding day to Leo & Shawn!
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CDK Global hired me to go to Honda of Burlington to photograph the Service Manager. CDK sells software that dealerships use to do things like add photographs of parts that need to be repaired to their service estimates, among countless other details. Brandon at Honda of Burlington is one of their featured clients.
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Carnation Farms is a nonprofit dedicated to improving how people eat. They grow sustainable food and teach the next generation of farmers. I had the pleasure of taking some photographs for them for their marketing of the team and some of their many facilities on their 800-acre venue.
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Anti-Racist Communities: Bothell held a rally with speakers to stand up to hate and support Asian and Pacific Islanders at Bothell Landing. I was only able to attend for the first hour, but I was happy to go and create some images for them. There were also two people running for Bothell City Council there. Han Tran, who was one of the organizers and speakers, and Jenne Alderks who was there in support.
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I really love creating portraits of people. When I create marketing portraits for businesses, I try to help my subjects relax so they can have their natural, friendly smile. Appearing warm, real, and relaxed helps to make them look like people you would want to work with. Check out these business portraits and headshots I did for Graham Construction last week. They will be using these in the proposals and bids as well as for press releases, website, and other marketing.
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Yay for weddings! It has been a long time since I last had the opportunity to photograph a wedding. Michele and Mark were married at Willows Lodge with their immediate family in attendance. It was a gray and slightly sprinkly late winter day. They laughed a lot and the love amongst their family was obvious. Willows Lodge arranged for them to get married in the small library upstairs. After the ceremony, I did some portrait sessions for family members that wanted some couple portraits. Thanks for having me there!
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Vivianna is graduating from the IB program at Inglemoor and going to Northwestern University next year. I met her and her mom at the Bellevue Botanical Gardens for her senior portraits. I love the footbridge over the ravine!
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One of my clients is running for mayor of Seattle! Go visit her website at JessynForMayor.com and see some more of my portraits of her. It is fun to see my work used for her campaign.
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Connor Alexander is a game designer and the creator of a new game called Coyote & Crow that is currently killing it on Kickstarter with over $500,000 raised. Since his original goal was $18,000, he is at 25 times his initial goal. The game obviously speaks to some people out there!
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I went down to the headquarters of Abbott Construction in Seattle to create new executive portraits of their CEO, Troy. They have a great office to work with. Over the course of the hour I was with Troy, we did several different settings including some studio headshots to give him a variety of images to work with. We varied from fully buttoned up to business casual so that he would be able to use the images for different purposes. I was quite please with this set of images.
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Josh Binda is an amazing young man and I find him inspiring. It is easy to go to protests, but it is hard to organize and lead them. It is easy to say you want to change things, but it is hard to come up with a plan to make change and to do the work to make it happen. When the opportunity presented itself with the Black Lives Matter movement, instead of shrinking to the back, Josh stepped forward and led marches all over Snohomish and parts of King Counties.
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Mahlet is a realtor in Seattle. I went to her office in the Wallingford neighborhood to create some portraits of her for self-promotion and all the things realtors do. I first set up a studio space and then we walked around the neighborhood! We even did a few with her in her Ethiopian dress. Cool stuff!
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Jean Wu of The Bread Booth. Jean has a system where she, her partners, and her volunteers “connect people with food and love others well.” They do that by gleaning food and giving it out in the community every Monday evening at 6:00 as well as building their community with a Facebook Group.
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My most recent shoot for the Spotlight Series is Frank and Jason of Shower to the People. They provide facilities for homeless people in Everett to shower as well as a few other services that help them feel valued and cared about as well as clean.
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I met Cecelia and her mom at the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle for her senior portraits. She wants to major in history and loves some of the same nerdy podcasts that I like to listen to. It was a beautiful, but cold day that looked great in the photographs.
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I really love photographing construction projects. Building big things is amazing. With my son Kyler working on a minor in urban policy, I have also become a bit of an urban policy enthusiast. The latest project that I photographed for Graham is the Alexan Central Park in Redmond. I love what Redmond is doing with its urban planning. They have created urban areas around a central park area that allows people to walk, bike, or use public transit easily to get to work as well as easy access to great food options. It really is great planning. Here is the new apartment complex the Alexan Central Park. These are project completion photographs for Graham. I think of them as light architectural photography.
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2020 was a strange year to be a wedding photographer. It started out with all of these plans for a couple of dozen big weddings. Some of those plans changed, others got postponed, and some people went for an elopement. The term for elopement also kind of morphed into "micro wedding" for some people that wanted an awesome event with fewer people.
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Seattle is a beautiful place with almost limitless places to take amazing portraits. For me having too many options can make it really difficult to make a choice, so I have created a list of some very cool places in Seattle to take engagement portraits.
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