Tim and Sylvie are friends from Portland who traveled to Sylvie’s hometown near Minneapolis, Minnesota for their wedding. Beforehand, while they were making plans, Tim and I were chatting and he said, “I wish you could shoot my wedding!” And I responded, “me too! Wait… why couldn’t I?’ So we made it work, and I’m so glad we did, as these pictures are some of my all-time wedding favorites. A vintage tandem Schwinn bicycle for the lovely bride and groom to ride into the reception? Come on! Not to mention beautiful little St. Albert’s Church with the gorgeous light where the ceremony was held, the striking multi-colored flowered dresses on the bridesmaids, the amazing rustic decorations in Sylvie’s family’s yard, the super cute kids, the lawn games, and the amazingly fun Contra dance at the end of the night… The list goes on, but you should just see the cuteness for yourself.
Melissa was my very first maternity photography client, and I couldn’t have asked for a better one. Not only is she gorgeous and glowing and amazingly strong, but she was extra patient with me while I figured out how to get the best poses and angles for those great belly pictures. Maternity photography draws on skills I’ve honed in other kinds of people photography: it’s like wedding and engagement photography in that it’s about capturing a relationship and a moment in time, it’s like boudoir photography in that it’s very much about the human form, and in that your subject probably hasn’t done it before and needs a lot of guidance to feel comfortable in front of the camera, and it’s like fashion photography in that the mom-to-be conveys confidence and, ideally, a kind of glamour. It’s a fantastic and rewarding to combine these challenges in to one photo session. And then it’s extra fun, of course, when you get to come back and take photos with the new baby (more on that later…)!
Ali and Josh have big, boisterous personalities, and lucky for me, they’re not afraid to show them to the camera (or the world!) That, combined with scads of thoughtful details and lots of warm, lovely friends made shooting their summer wedding great fun for me. Oh, and the delicious barbeque from Reo’s Ribs helped too!
Lisa and Marc had a lovely, mellow, pot-luck style wedding at the absolutely gorgeous Silver Falls State Park. My favorite part of the day was the thirty minutes they set aside for us to walk around and take photos with just the two of them. There was plenty of warm, beautiful, dappled sunshine – basically a photographer’s playground. Specially- made homebrews and huge amounts of delicious food followed (and let me be honest, I enjoyed that part too!) – then instead of a first dance, the happy couple had a ceremonial first badminton game. What could be cuter?
