The biggest compliment I get as a photographer is when my clients refer me to their friends and family. It’s a gift I don’t take likely. Pat and her family were referred to me and I very much enjoyed meeting them. Such a great group of grandkids and grown children. Everyone was so cooperative and fun to work with. Plus […]
I met Yvonne and Jeff through our sons. Their oldest son Gavin was a high level swimmer for Newberg High School when my son Grant started high school. His freshman year, Gavin was a junior and the captain of the swim team. A friendship was formed between our boys. I had never been to a swim meet before and found […]
This spring/summer we had the privilege of hosting our niece Alexa for eight weeks. Alexa is thick into her second year of Physician Assistant (PA) school at a university in Minnesota. Since my husband Curt is a PA and works in PA education, he was able to secure two clinical rotations for her out here in the Pacific Northwest. It […]
Our daughter Katie celebrated her sweet sixteen birthday this month. I’d been asking her for weeks what she wanted to do to celebrate, but she never formulated any specific or concrete plan. On the Saturday before her birthday, my husband and I looked at each other and asked, “Do you think we could pull off a surprise party in two […]
We moved to Newberg, Oregon, from the greater Chicago area the summer before my son Grant entered second grade. I signed our kids up for swimming lessons, hoping they would learn to swim and make some new friends. The local pool was old, but adequate, with giant record boards touting one water polo state championship after another. I had never […]
We met the Waldal’s a few years ago when their son Nathan switched from baseball to our water polo family. It has been fun to get to know them over the years. When you work together at the scoring table, organize food for tournaments, and cheer each other’s kids on, you can’t help but become friends. It was my privilege […]
The weather forecast the day of the Jacobs’ family portraits was perfect. Sun and and 70’s. And it was sun and 70’s all day… until just before their session time. An unexpected summer storm rolled in just as we got started. We found cover and waited out the rain. The post-storm lighting was magical as was the remnant of rain […]
The Buisman family won an Offering I donated to the Visible Grace auction. It was a blessing to meet them and photograph their darling family. Life with toddlers and babies is so moment to moment, hands on, snuggles, love, chasing, comforting, protecting, cajoling… It’s messy and lovely, exhausting and filled with big emotions. I’m removed enough from our Years in […]
These Jordans… they love each other and it radiates from them to the world around them. Our boys have played water polo together since they were in 6th grade so we’ve spent a lot of time shoulder to shoulder in hot, humid pools all over the Pacific Northwest. Down to earth, generous, and fun are some of the first words […]
My friend Nanci of Nanci Imagery is a talented photographer. We tentatively launched our businesses around the same time and thankfully had a Village that believed in us and our untapped talent. Over the years, we have honed our skills and developed our niches. Nanci loves the technicality and perfection of staged newborn photography and is INCREDIBLE at posing and […]
