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The beginning of the 2019 Down Syndrome Community Buddy Walk at Woodland Park Zoo.

2019 Down Syndrome Buddy Walk at Woodland Park Zoo

Down Syndrome Community Buddy Walk 2019 Yesterday I was the photographer for the 2019 Down Syndrome Community Buddy Walk.  This is an annual affair, and I have been the lead photographer at this event for 20+ years.  It is always a lot of fun, and this year was no exception. In past years the Buddy […]

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Top 100 wedding photography blogs in 2019

Tom Ellis Photography Blog Rated in Top 100 Blogs

Tom Ellis Photography Blog in Feedspot Top 100 Wedding Photography Blogs A few days ago I received an email from someone whose name I did not recognize, Anuj Agarwal from Feedspot.com.  The header on the email was what I have written above, “Tom Ellis Photography Blog in Feedspot Top 100 Wedding Photography Blogs”, and contained […]

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Busy dance floor at the 2019 Down Syndrome Community Sweetheart Dance

2019 Down Syndrome Community Sweetheart Dance

Down Syndrome Valentine’s Day Sweetheart Dance Last weekend I was the photographer for the 2019 Valentine’s Sweetheart Dance put on by the Down Syndrome Community.  The dance had originally been scheduled to be held two weeks earlier, but the rather crazy amount of snow on the ground at the time necessitated rescheduling the date.  I […]

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Santa with two friends at the 2018 Special People's Holiday Cruise

Special People’s Holiday Cruise Santa Photos 2018

Special People’s Holiday Cruise 2018 – Santa Photos This past Sunday I was once again the Santa photographer for the 2018 Special People’s Cruise, held at Meydenbauer Yacht Club in Bellevue.  I say “once again” because I have now been the official Santa photographer at this event for ~25 years.  I first started in this […]

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Steve cuts hard toward the wake whjile waterskiing on Lake Sammamish

Waterskiing on Lake Sammamish

Waterskiing Fun on Lake Sammamish This morning I met up with long-time friends Steve Loper and Hobie Stebbins at Steve’s house on Lake Sammamish for some of our first waterski runs of the season.  When I say “long-time friends” I really do mean long-time; we have know each other since junior high school, almost 50 […]

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Family photo taken at the Down Syndrome Sweetheart Dance

2018 Valentines Day Down Syndrome Sweetheart Dance

2018 Down Syndrome Community Valentine’s Day Sweetheart Dance Last Saturday I was the photographer for the annual Valentine’s Day Sweetheart Dance, put on by the Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound.  The event was held at the Highland Center in Bellevue, and as best I can tell this was at least the 20th straight year […]

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Close up photo of bride at Indian wedding ceremony, as she sits with her eyes closed and hands clasped in front of her face

Sneak Peek – Indian Wedding at Hindu Cultural Center

Sneak Peek – Sree and Josh get married at the Hindu Cultural Center This wedding was actually a two-part affair; first a full Indian wedding ceremony at the Hindu Temple and Cultural Center in Bothell, followed by a much more conventional (at least for Westerners) ceremony at the Seattle Municipal Courthouse.  Both ceremonies took place […]

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Santa poses with young woman with Down Syndrome at the 2017 Special People's Holiday Cruise

2017 Special People’s Holiday Cruise

The 2017 Special People’s Holiday Cruise On December 4 I was the “Santa Photographer” at the 2017 Special People’s Holiday Cruise, held at the Meydenbauer Yacht Club.  This is an annual event, and has been going on for many years.  As many of my clients know, my daughter Kerri has Down Syndrome.  I first got […]

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Photo of totality during the August 21, 2017 solar eclipse

Eclipse 2017 in Corvallis, Tom Ellis Photography

Photos of the August 21, 2017 Solar Eclipse Yesterday I was extremely fortunate to be able to view and photograph the total solar eclipse.  When I first heard about the coming eclipse sometime last spring, I thought that it would be a lot of fun to travel to a location where it would be possible […]

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Bride and groom photographed against a background of the sun setting behind the Olympic Mountains during their Seattle area wedding at Ray's Boathouse

Updated wedding videos – Seattle wedding photographer

Updated Wedding Video Slideshows now on my YouTube page For the last couple of days I have been working on updating some of my Wedding Video Slideshows, to take advantage of the improvements to the software that have taken place since I first created many of these shows.  The difference is really remarkable; I thought […]

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