wedding details

One of my favorite things to capture on a wedding day are the individual touches that sets each wedding apart. It may be the cake or the decorations, the church or some other aspect of the big event, but it's so much fun to capture the details and try to find a new way to photograph it. I gather inspiration from all types of magazines and from other photographers.

babies, babies

Kathi, my sister-in-law, and I got to do photo shoots for two adorable babies last month. We did Mikayla's one year portrait (Mikayla is Kathi's granddaughter). We also took baby Sophia's portrait at 9 weeks old. Both were sooo cooperative and so much fun to photograph. For Sophia, we experimented with a white backdrop and actually had our whites look really white! Usually, the winter in Oregon can have gray, dreary days, but we were lucky to have sunny days for both shoots. I also got to take photos of another little girl, Anna, in December. She came with her older brothers and while it was a challenge to get all 3 of them together, she was so good in front of the camera!

senior photos

The last few months have been filled with senior photos. It is so much fun to take their photos. I'm posting just a few of them here.

looking back

I've been putting my old negatives on cd. I started with photos of my kids and our best friends, the Robinsons, as a birthday present for my friend, Marian, but have kept on because it's so much fun to see my kids when they were young! I like having easy access to all my old photos now. It's nice to see that my photography has changed too (not as many blurry photos!). Here are just a few of those photos from years ago. The "dancer" is my oldest who is now 19. He was just two years old when he took tap and dance lessons with some of his friends from church. The dark-eyed baby is my oldest daughter. She's now 17 (almost 18). Don't you just love those big, dark eyes? The just-bathed babies in red jammies are my now-fifteen year old daughter (on the left) and a family friend.