Teaser

I did a beautiful portrait shoot this morning and only have one photo finished so far, but I thought I would throw it up for you to enjoy. Thanks Anne for making it down to Seattle and making the shoot happen so last minute!

A collection of highlights from the last 6 months

As a general rule, I don’t blog about weddings. They are their own separate entity, tons of fun, lots of work and really different from what this blog is trying to showcase. I did about 25 weddings in about four months and sadly failed to post any of my other work in my blog. There is so much delightful stuff I could show you from the last 7 months or so, so much to catch up on! I can’t unfortunately cover everything I’ve done in this modest blog, but I can give you some highlights

(perhaps one of the reasons I haven’t been posting is my inordinate obsession with tango…Way to much dancing in the last little while. These are my most recent pair of tango shoes, and I’m almost scared to wear them, they’re so pretty. This has become a favorite photo recently, inspiring jealous death threats, shoe fetish flavored teasing, and even a dance related photography job offer)

This is a photo I took for The Stranger, back before they stopped hiring contractors I thought this photo was so funny, both because of the difficulty of making chicken-fried-steak look appealing and also because of the lucky grab shot of the guy in the background. That guy is actually my dad, and he posed for fun, not intending me to actually take the picture. Beware! ye unsuspecting. For a week his photo was on the cover of the food section of the Stranger!

A friend and I organized a boudoir shoot just a couple months ago, mostly for fun and advertising material. We learned a huge amount and had a lot of fun.

We loved our models and felt blessed to get to photograph girls with so much personality and joy.

I also had a great time photographing Jasmyn, an aspiring model who introduced me to Point Defiance Park…

The shoot was fantastic, and we got some great stuff, but it was actually snowing on us the entire time we shot. Needless to say, we made frequent car ‘warm up’ trips throughout the afternoon.

And Finally, I spent on long summer day doing photos for Derby Salon http://www.derbysalon.com/  , getting to know their stylists and having fun with about 10 different models and looks.

The shoot reminded me how nice it is to have professional makeup and styling, and now I’m working on my own collection of makeup artists and stylists to work with. Thanks Derby!

Mayors Arts Awards 2008

I got the honor of photographing these award winning artists at the beginning of the season last year and I’m finally getting to put some of the photos up on line. These photos were taken for City Arts Seattle http://www.cityartsmagazine.com/ and the Mayors Office of arts and cultural affairs. It was a pleasure to see a couple of them used on Seattle Channel during the award ceremony but the best part of all was getting to meet the outstanding artists of 2008 that received recognition for their work in the community.  For more info on the artists, the awards, and to see the final photos that were picked, please visit http://www.seattle.gov/arts/community/arts_awards.asp

Cathryn Vandenbrink of ArtSpace;  http://www.artspace.org/

Hugo Ludeña, photographer extraordinaire and mentor for Latino youth

Beth Takekawa of Wing Luke Asian Museum; http://www.wingluke.org/

14/48 – the World’s Quickest Theater Festival

Coyote Central and Marybeth Satterlee; http://www.coyotecentral.org/

Steve Peter, Nonsequitur; http://nseq.blogspot.com/1990/01/brief-history-of-nonsequitur.html