We finally got Kate’s birthday pictures taken…AFTER her birthday. That has never happened but she is a busy girl! We are so proud of this newly minted adult.  (I’m kind of choking on that word for my baby.). She has had the weir high school experience.  We moved to a temporary house during her freshman […]

Ellie and I had big plans to check out some of the murals in downtown Seattle before she want home to Boise. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your perspective) we had a lot of snow…and we got lazy. It wasn’t until Ellie’s friend Jessica called and asked if Ellie would like to go downtown to […]

Mother Nature has been HORRIBLE to PNW photographers this year. It feels like almost all the fall weekends have been full of rain. Spencer was supposed to come in mid-October but that weekend was full of rain (and homecoming) so we decided to push it until November. I’m not sure it was even possible, but […]

One of the things I love to do with senior sessions is highlight a passion of theirs…if they will let me! When Max’s Mom Kirsten said he’d been restoring a vintage Volkswagen Bug I KNEW we needed to included it. And he was totally up for it! In fact, he worked non-stop for two days […]

Some of you know that I have been in business for 20 years, but did you also know that I started by doing sessions in my kitchen.  Literally in my kitchen.  I made this rough wooden frame that my couch would hold up and I’d clip navy blue hotel blankets to it with binder clips.  […]

Normally I write my senior blog posts about my senior subject (Hi James!) but this time I just have to write it about his mom, Angie. Angie were good friends in high school (too many years ago to mention…so don’t ask!). And we both went to the University of Washington and went through rush together. […]