Senior Portrait
What girl doesn’t love dress-up? The shoes. The accessories. The picking-out-of-the-dress. The makeup colors. The twirling. The spinning. The high heels. The bright red lip stick. Being an adult is basically playing dress up every day, yes? Dressing up for the important meeting. Dressing up for an important date. Dressing up for church….
It all started on a beautiful spring evening. A walk in the woods. A camera. A beautiful dress. Then my lovely assistant saw an opportunity. Ran back to the car (through thorns and poison ivy, mind you). Returned with the perfect prop. And there it was: the Alice in Wonderland pocketwatch. Except her name isn’t…
You shouldn’t need a Geek Squad to decipher the Geek Speak. Especially not when trying to decide what camera to purchase; a camera that will document your child’s first year of life, your twentieth anniversary adventure, your mountain hike, your girl’s night out. Your camera is about to fill a very practical function, and each of…
Josie got the short end of the stick. Halfway through a week of shoots at Gown and Glove with no rain at all (nearly miraculous for a Bellingham winter), we were just about ready to call it another successful rain-free day and then – kersplat – the first of the raindrops started falling. Josie is…
My senior photos were the opposite of personalized. I went to a Wal-Mart photo studio where a grumpy lady told me how to sit, where to look, how to position my chin…all with the goal that my photos would look exactly like every other portrait session ever to come through Wal-Mart’s studio. Too bad I’m…
Tiffany was heading toward me and the spot in I’d picked for our next series of shots. I was walking backwards (it takes talent, let me tell you) and explaining the concept of the hairbrained idea I had (it involved Taylor Swift – don’t ask) and why we were walking across the parking lot to the corner of a field….