{"id":17077,"date":"2021-06-13T17:17:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T00:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/?p=17077"},"modified":"2021-06-13T17:17:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T00:17:33","slug":"seattle-family-photo-session-at-the-kobota-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/seattle-family-photo-session-at-the-kobota-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Family Photo Session at the Kobota Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Fantastic Family Photo Session with the Dreagers at Kubota Garden<\/h1>\n<p>Five years ago in Summer 2016 I was the photographer at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/seattle-area-wedding-at-jardin-del-sol\/\">wedding of Ashley and Justin at Jardin del Sol in Snohomish<\/a>.\u00a0 It was a wonderful wedding and reception, and I really enjoyed working with Ashley and Justin both during the wedding, and then again as we worked on designing their wedding album.\u00a0 Several year later I got another call from them; they had a new baby daughter named Addison and wanted me to do newborn photos.\u00a0 I was delighted to oblige, and you can see the results by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/seattle-newborn-baby-photos-meet-beautiful-addison\/\">clicking on my newborn session with Addison<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now Ashley called to tell me that she was pregnant with baby #2, and was due in about a month.\u00a0 She and Justin wanted to do a combination family\/maternity session.\u00a0 We talked over the possibilities and decided to do the session at the Kubota Garden, one of my favorite photo locations in the Seattle area.<\/p>\n<p>The day of the shoot the weather was just about perfect; warm but not hot, and mostly overcast.\u00a0 So nobody was going to get sweaty, and much easier to take photos without the crazy brights and darks that you get shooting on a sunny day.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep the story short.\u00a0 The session went about as perfectly as is possible when one of the participants is a not quite two year old!\u00a0 Addison did her best to take over the session, but proved to be a very good subject once I started letting her see the photos as I was taking them.\u00a0 We made our way around pretty much the entire park, and Kubota is not a small place.\u00a0 We lucked out and did not have as many photo bombers as I had feared we might encounter on a nice Spring Saturday<\/p>\n<p>Coming soon, the newborn photos of Baby Elizabeth!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17106\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-Family-Photo-Session-Kubota-Garden-009.jpg\" alt=\"Seattle family photo session at the Kubota Garden. Tom Ellis Photography, Seattle family and portrait photographer\" width=\"666\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-Family-Photo-Session-Kubota-Garden-009.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-Family-Photo-Session-Kubota-Garden-009-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-17107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-Family-Photo-Session-Kubota-Garden-010.jpg\" alt=\"Seattle family photo session at the Kubota Garden. Tom Ellis Photography, Seattle family and portrait photographer\" width=\"666\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-Family-Photo-Session-Kubota-Garden-010.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-Family-Photo-Session-Kubota-Garden-010-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-17108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-Family-Photo-Session-Kubota-Garden-011.jpg\" alt=\"Seattle family photo session at the Kubota Garden. Tom Ellis Photography, Seattle family and portrait photographer\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-Family-Photo-Session-Kubota-Garden-011.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-Family-Photo-Session-Kubota-Garden-011-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-Family-Photo-Session-Kubota-Garden-011-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-17109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-Family-Photo-Session-Kubota-Garden-012.jpg\" alt=\"Seattle family photo session at the Kubota Garden. Tom Ellis Photography, Seattle family and portrait photographer\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-Family-Photo-Session-Kubota-Garden-012.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-Family-Photo-Session-Kubota-Garden-012-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-17110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-Family-Photo-Session-Kubota-Garden-013.jpg\" alt=\"Seattle family photo session at the Kubota Garden. Tom Ellis Photography, Seattle family and portrait photographer\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-Family-Photo-Session-Kubota-Garden-013.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-Family-Photo-Session-Kubota-Garden-013-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-17111\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-Family-Photo-Session-Kubota-Garden-014.jpg\" alt=\"Seattle family photo session at the Kubota Garden. Tom Ellis Photography, Seattle family and portrait photographer\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-Family-Photo-Session-Kubota-Garden-014.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-Family-Photo-Session-Kubota-Garden-014-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-17112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-Family-Photo-Session-Kubota-Garden-015.jpg\" alt=\"Seattle family photo session at the Kubota Garden. Tom Ellis Photography, Seattle family and portrait photographer\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-Family-Photo-Session-Kubota-Garden-015.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-Family-Photo-Session-Kubota-Garden-015-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-17113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-Family-Photo-Session-Kubota-Garden-016.jpg\" alt=\"Seattle family photo session at the Kubota Garden. 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