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2015 Special Peoples’ Cruise
Santa photos at the Special Peoples’ Cruise On Sunday December 6 I was the photographer for the Special Peoples’ Cruise, run out of Meydenbauer Yacht Club in Bellevue. This is an annual event, and I have been the photographer at the event for more than 20 years. There were more than 120 participants, plus dozens of […]
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Happy Anniversary Clarissa and John!
Happy First Wedding Anniversary Clarissa and John! It was just one year ago today that I was the lucky photographer at Clarissa and John Barrett’s wedding ceremony at Calvary Fellowship Church in Mountlake Terrace. We started the day with photos in Mukilteo and had fabulous weather conditions, sunny and warm, more like early October than mid-December. […]
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Katrina & Christopher – Engagement Photo Session
Seattle area engagement photos – Katrina & Christopher in Snoqualmie Here are some photos from my recent engagement photo session with Katrina and Christopher. We arranged to meet for their photo session at Snoqualmie Falls, which is where they first got engaged a year ago. Unfortunately, while it was a beautiful sunny day almost everywhere […]
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Happy Anniversary Adriane and Lonnie!
Happy First Wedding Anniversary Adriane and Lonnie! I’d like to send wishes for a very happy first wedding anniversary to Adriane and Lonnie Mixon, who were married a year ago today. The wedding took place in Wright Park in Tacoma, in the Seymour Conservatory, and you can see photos of the day by clicking here. The wedding […]
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Seattle Area Venue Review – Pickering Barn in Issaquah
Wedding venue review – Pickering Barn in Issaquah The Pickering Barn in Issaquah was once one of Issaquah’s largest dairy farms, with more than 100 cows. Construction on the hay barn began in 1878, and the large dairy barn area was added in 1906. Today the barn is on the National Register of Historic Places. […]
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Family photos at Bellevue Park
The Allen Family – Family photo session at Bellevue Downtown Park I recently had the pleasure of re-uniting with Thomas and Shaina, whose wedding I photographed on July 11, 2013 at the Salish Lodge (and that you can see at this link). Thomas and Shaina now have a delightful little boy named Dean in their […]
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What to do when your venue isn’t very photogenic
Your wedding venue isn’t photogenic? Here is what you can do! At least a few times every year, I will have a couple tell me in advance of the wedding that the location where they are having their wedding simply is not very photogenic. But they still want to get good formal photos, not only of themselves […]
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Seattle area Senior Photos – Tyler
Seattle area senior photography – photo session with Tyler Ellis Tyler Ellis is a senior at Eastside Catholic High School on the Sammamish Plateau. Tyler is also my nephew, and I had been looking forward to this session for several months. We had planned to do the photos during the summer, but shortly before the […]
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Wedding photos before or after the ceremony?
Should you take your wedding photos before or after the ceremony? A question that many couples have when planning their wedding is whether they should take their formal wedding photos before or after the ceremony. For many couples this is a difficult decision because they are being told different things by everyone they talk to. […]
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Mary – Seattle area high-school senior photo session
Seattle area senior photos – Mary at Chism Park I have known Mary for several years. I took her sister Julia’s senior photos a few years ago, and I also am one of Mary’s coaches on the Bellevue High track team. Before choosing where she wanted to have her photos taken, we talked over the […]
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