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Kristin + KyleSeattle EngagementSeattle, WA

September 29, 2011

Here are some frames of my dear Kristin + Kyle’s Seattle engagement session. I recorded Kyle’s band back in the day and was pleased as pie when he asked me to photograph his wedding. In fact, I can’t hardly wait to photograph them at The Sanctuary at Admiral.

Can’t wait because he’s a friend, his wife-to-be is a darling and I’ll be working with none other than Megan Keller from A Kurant Event, absolutely one of my favorite planners and wedding designers in the greater Seattle area.

We had fun tooling around the Eastlake neighborhood, which was where Kristin was living at the time they met and the backdrop for their courtship. With yummy start at Cicchetti (the new offspring of Serafina) and tooling our way down the shoreline of eastern Lake Union to the park under I-5, we found plenty of things to do, eat and see. Kyle is a brewer so

Please have a look. Feel free to comment at the bottom, vote for your favorites or share via Twitter, Facebook, StumpleUpon or Pinterest. There are also links at the bottom to where you can see the entire collection and order prints. Enjoy.

A couple beam at each other in silhouette against blue sky during a Seattle engagement session A cute couple nuzzle on the steps of Cicchetti during their Seattle engagement session

A man kisses a woman under an arbor found at a P-patch along Eastlake during a Seattle engagement session A young woman with freckles beams for the camera with her fiance in the foreground and out of focus during their Seattle engagement session

An engaged couple pose in front of an ivy-covered wall in Ballard during their Seattle engagement session
A couple embrace while surrounded in purple light after dark at the conclusion of their Seattle engagement session

April + RyanQueen Anne EngagementSeattle, WA

June 14, 2011

Please meet April + Ryan as I joined them for their Queen Anne engagement session. I’m sure you’ll love them as much as I do. I joined the lovely couple at their new home in Queen Anne, my much-loved and former stomping grounds. From there we cruised up and down Dexter Avenue to hit some spots that have long been on my radar from constantly jogging or cycling by.

There’s no muss or fuss here… The connection between these two was easy, breezy and palpable. Sometimes I need to interject some ideas of how to “pose” together whilst other times, as in this case, it’s as simple as letting a couple be together.

Please also let me share a MAJOR thank you to the Fabulous Fashion and Senior Portrait Photographer Michelle Moore for introducing me to these two. Michelle and April are BFF’s from way back in the day. I can’t wait to join these two in Spokane this August as their friends and families come together to celebrate their union.

Enagement photo of a couple casually posed in their Queen Anne apartment.

An artistic engagement photo of a couple casually posed in front of a window in black and white.

An artistic and creative black and white engagement photo. A romantic black and white photo made during an engagement session.

A fun Seattle engagment photo.
Artistic and creative black & white engagement photo.

A cute candid portrait made during an artistic Seattle engagement session. An intimate photo made during an artistic Seattle engagement session. A cute couple pose on an urban Seattle railroad track during an artistic engagement session.

Can’t wait to spend more time with these two as they get get hitched later this summer. Get at me to shoot a Queen Anne engagement any ol’ time.

Courtney + AllenCamano Island EngagementCamano Island, WA

May 26, 2011

I live in the Pacific Northwest. My job is to photograph weddings, engagements and portraits here. Due to the unrelenting rain and short sunny season, I often find myself in the uncomfortable situation of rescheduling shoots in deference of a sunny day that HAS to be looming on near future’s horizon. Hope sells… Ask Obama.

Enter: Courtenay and Allen. Our goal for this engagement session was to capture them in their element and nothing more. They are outdoor people. They are in love. There is a family cabin on Camano Island that is part of the fabric that defines them as a couple. Sometimes it rains. A lot of times it rains. We chose to embrace it.

Here is what a day with two lovebirds looks like during a typical rainy, spring day in the Pacific Northwest. We hit the Stanwood Cafe, some choice beaches on Camano Island and the family cabin. Clam shells, moss, rain-soaked wetness, North Face and Marmot anoraks, and a couple in love. It’s all here: Check out their Pacific Northwet, rainy Camano Island engagement session.

The wet and rainy road to a Camano Island engagement photography session.

A beautiful woman hams it up with her fiance in the Stanwood Cafe during a Pacific Northwest engagement photography session.

A candid view through the window of the Stanwood Cafe during a fun and artistic engagement photography session. Close up details of an engaged couple holding hands at the Stanwood Cafe. A photojournalism shot of an engaged couple through the window of the Stanwood Cafe.

A young engaged couple walk over timbers washed to the beach during a Camano Island engagement photography session. A loving couple having fun in the rain on a Camano Island beach during an engagement photography session.

An engaged couple jump off of a log on a Camano Island beach during a fun and creative photo session.
A couple ham for the camera on a Camano Island beach during an engagement photography session. An engaged couple goof for the camera on a Camano Island beach during a photo session.

An artistic and creative engagement photo of a couple in love kissing on a Camano Island beach. An couple brave the Puget Sound mud on a beach of Camano Island during their engagement photo session. An artistic black and white photo of an engaged couple in the mud of Puget Sound on Camano Island. A road marker of Madrona Beach Road and Sunset Drive on Camano Island from an engagement photography session.

Laughs and good times during an engagement photo session in a funky cabin on Camano Island.

A couple clown for the camera in straw hats inside a funky Camano Island beach cabin taken during their engagement session. A couple shelter in the rain outside a funky Camano Island beach cabin during their engagement shoot. A woman's long hair pops out of the hood of her North Face rain shell on a Camano Island beach during her engagement session.
A couple share a laugh strolling a Camano Island beach in the rain during their engagement session.

A black and white landscape of rainy Puget Sound taken from a Camano Island beach during an engagement photo session. A couple smooching on a Camano Island pier with Puget Sound in the background during an engagement session.

Belly laughs and fun on a Camano Island pier during an engagement session.

A cute engagement photo of a couple in front of their funky Camano Island beach cottage. An artistic black and white of an intimate Camano Island beach moment during an engagement session.

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A huge shout-out to the frighteningly talented Mr. Ben Blood. Without you sir, I would not know these two great folks nor would I be in the esteemed position to be photographing their wedding in Pendleton, Oregon. Thank you Ben.

And a debt of great thanks to the equally as talented Mr. Jeramie Shoda. Without his willingness to spend a rainy Sunday morning curled up with his girl and mine in his PJ’s and slippers, I would have had a serious logistical situation to contend with other than rain. Ella loved her time with you guys – Thank you so much.

Also, your comments matter – Courtney and Allen need 30 original comments to win a free 11×14 print of their choice from this session. Help ’em out if you’re feeling it.

Jenny + JuanUniversity of Washington EngagementSeattle, WA

April 22, 2011

Jenny + Juan and I rendezvous’d at the Quad on the lovely grounds of the University of Washington. It was an early spring day and we were hoping for cherry blossoms, but had to settle for some fun together instead. No worries.

We had a great time exploring the campus before heading over to my neighborhood of Ballard and ultimately ending at Golden Gardens along the lovely Puget Sound. They are a fun and lovely couple and I am licking my chops at the prospect of getting to photograph their wedding. Thank you for the fun times guys!

All these images were made on my Contax 645 medium format film camera with Kodak Portra 400, Kodak BW400cn in the Nikon F100 or Fuji fp-3000b instant film and were processed in Lehi, UT by the FIND Laboratory. Enjoy and happy Friday!

Kelsey + MackenzieCascade Mountains Engagement Photography

January 27, 2011

Hmmm. Where to start with this post? First off, let me say thank you to Kelsey and Mackenzie for being my guinea pigs. Guinea pigs you say? It all started when…

I began to fall in love with film. When I started becoming a photographer, digital is what I began with. Over the past year, I’ve been looking closely at the work of renown wedding photographers such as Elizabeth Messina, Jonathan Canlas and Jose Villa among others. There are a bunch of practical reasons pertaining to me and my life specifically that make film a nice medium to work with for the simplicity of the workflow, but there is a look to the work that soooo appeals to me on a level deeper. Don’t even get me started about the skin tones.

With the gospel of film spreading far and wide by the likes of Mr. Jonathan Canlas and his Film Is Not Dead (FIND) workshops [more on that later as I attend one in July, 2011], I’ve taken the bait hook, line and sinker; I have begun to immerse myself in the use of film for daily personal work and I am beyond smitten. Smitten with the results, smitten with the workflow and smitten with how it has affected my approach to shooting and honing my vision.

OK. Thanks for staying with me. I had been doing a fair amount of personal work with medium format cameras like the Contax 645, Hasselblad 500c/m and even a Holga as I’ve briefly touched on in the previous Exploring Film and Family Camping at Lakedale Resort on San Juan Island posts, but had yet to take the plunge and do a shoot on film for clients. Enter Kelsey and Mackenzie. I grabbed a bunch of Fuji 400h, some Kodak Tri-X with my Contax 645 and my friend’s Nikon F4 to head out towards Snoqualmie Pass one fine October day with the two cool cats and force of love called Kels and Mack. That shoot is below.

I’m happy with the work. I’m happy with the process. I’m not happy with the lack of sharpness in some of the images due to my 3.5 year old prescription in my glasses at the time and the resulting soft manual focus. Good news: I have new eyes and I have fallen in love all over again. Hello film. Let’s do this. You and me.

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