Kayla is graduating with high honors from Lewis Clark State College as a nurse and we had to celebrate her massive accomplishment with a college graduate photo session. We shot Kayla’s session on her family farm while she was home for break. The weather forecast was SUN but as I was driving to her farm on the mountain a spring […]
I photograph the Williams’ family every year. This year we added the boys’ grandma for a couple of photos and of course Rizzo, their big furry boy. When we scheduled this year’s shoot neither of us could believe a full year had already gone by. It truly feels like a handful of months ago we were shooting their 2020 family […]
Gwen + Mike + Four Cool Kids = one really cool blended family. We shot their family photos on their farm on the first rainy day Oregon has seen in months. We thought we had dodged the rain showers, but as soon as I pulled into their driveway, it started raining again. We waited indoors for about 20 minutes then […]
The weather forecast for the Hall’s family photo session was rain showers and cold. We chatted about rescheduling, but Oregon fall weather is so unpredictable, so we decided to go for it. It was definitely not ideal conditions for a photo session with a toddler and a preschooler, but the Hall family were such troopers. Jason and Melissa came prepared […]
Two days before Christmas I met the Fritz family – all 17 of them – in downtown Portland for a photo session. It was the start of a big winter storm with damp cold, wind, and intermittent rain showers and sun. Totally winter in Portland, but there was no cancelling this session. Four grown sons, their wives and kids, and […]
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 […]
I met Tara and her daughter Taylor through the kids program at our church. They served regularly in my daughter’s Sunday school class. They chose to love her, even when she was naughty, and it endeared them to me forever. Taylor now lives in Asia so it was pretty special to get the Tuepker’s together for some family photos when […]
