Justin Class of '22!

May 30, 2022  •  Leave a Comment
Sooooo much fun for me... I met Justin when he was in 4th grade and he was so cute, and it was Veteran's Day & yes, Justin, I'm doing this: click here 🇺🇸 for that Veteran's Day family photo shoot when Justin was 9:) 🇺🇸 Justin is looking forward to a career in the American Military:) But for this photoshoot we started a little bit cowboy:...
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Alexis & Sunshine! ~ Class of '22!

May 29, 2022  •  2 Comments
Oh such joy for me to photograph Alexis:) Her sparkling dark eyes & her spontaneous mind searching out fun spots & angles with me:) We were fitting in our photography session between dramatic bouts of rain & Lexi's busy high school BASKETBALL season!! Thank you to Blushing by Jen on makeup and Lori's Lovely Beauty on hair, who both came...
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Jillian! & gardens ~ Class of '22!

May 20, 2022  •  Leave a Comment
I think it is impossible to not smile when seeing Jillian's smile ~ let your brain get happy & smile back:):):) I believe I met Jillian when she was... two:) so so so much fun to see you now & remember you then!! The images in our minds' eyes for these portraits (and in our Pinterest picks) were floral ~ disregarding spring showers, we wen...
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James - Gamer! & Eastlake Class of '22!!!

January 16, 2022  •  Leave a Comment
Planning / brainstorming sessions are ALWAYS so fun for me ~ when I ask "What do you like to do? Where do you like to go? What makes you smile??" ~ that is when I get to dive into my client's world and hang out there, learning about it all through my clients' personal "lens". Then we get to make up where our photoshoot will happen. James chose FORE...
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Faith ~ Class of ‘22

January 11, 2022  •  Leave a Comment
Making our Senior Portraits during Covid is… a little sad for me. Architecturally beautiful public indoor locations are not available for portraits showing noses and mouths ~ so we applied a little imagination & I love our results!! Faith dressed the part ~ elegance and beauty personalized with her own fun & outrageous details!! ~ then she wrapped...
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Daniel at Pioneer Square & Queen Anne

December 11, 2021
Field Trip! Daniel took us into Seattle, from Kerry Park to Pioneer Square ~ We started at Gene Juarez in Redmond, for hair touch up with Design Specialist Michael M: Then caravanned to Seattle's Kerry Park on Queen Anne Hill: Then the Sinking Ship Parking Garage in Pioneer Square, at the foot of the Smith Tower I enjoyed photog...
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Zoe - let's play !

September 30, 2021
Zoe already had a host of FUN straight-face awesome UNEXPECTED images posted on her Instagram, so I could SEE how she likes to play, with images & attitudes & expressions & clothes & IMAGINATION ~ Zoe is all about being playful:) At the beginning of our afternoon... we met with Corey T at the Gene Juarez Salon & Spa in Redmond. From there, Z...
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Vinny - So Long, Sammamish

September 26, 2021
Grad & Gone! Vinny graduated from Skyline High School in June ~ so he is now grad & gone & immersed in his real-life-brick-and-mortar-sunshine-and-classrooms college experience at Claremont McKenna College in SoCal:) But this was our time, just before his high school graduation in June... We began the (very early) morning with expert barber...
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Alaina's Road Trip to Sunflower Fields!

September 19, 2021  •  Leave a Comment
Alaina! Senior at Skyline High School, Class of 2022! We came up with a vision... forests, rivers, and sunflower fields... so we took a little road trip:) (Just a note: this portrait session was during a magical time: we were post-vaccinations and pre-D-variant...thus.. we rode together!) Pre-session: Salon 074 in Sammamish for a quick blow-dry f...
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Jon! The Mountains to the Matador...

August 29, 2021
I SO ENJOY repeat clients! Like Jon's family! Jonny had a lot to live up to, I mean, THIS was pressure, I mean, his big brother is my cover model - not just for a sample album showing off portraits I ❤️ but Jon's big brother is THE cover model for my STYLE GUIDE. And he's all over the inside of it too. That's like, having your older sibling score...
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ERICA! 2 Seasons ~ Skyline High School Grad 2021!!

June 15, 2021  •  Leave a Comment
Autumn... AND Spring! Ah, I think this could be a new senior portrait package! 2 seasons! Creativity flourishes under limitations, right? Erica's senior portrait "limits" started with COVID ~ like limits for all of us last year! We had NO options for hair styling or makeup... two things Erica had been looking forward to in her senior portrait...
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Anthony - Woodinville High class of '21 !

June 06, 2021
Anthony! Thank you for choosing my little biz! Your photoshoot was so much fun for me:) Mostly because of our jolly banter. YOU are a lot of fun:) Anthony was my first senior portrait client who I did NOT already know to contact me via text... and I was really wary that this mystery person may actually be a Colombian scam-artist preying on naiv...
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Yasmeen ~ Post Alley

June 05, 2021  •  Leave a Comment
Oh so fun - Yasmeen's family was one of my VERY FIRST FAMILIES to give my little biz a try ~ and when I delivered her album (masked and all distanced of course!) there were photos of her from that very first shoot right there in the hallway! What joy in my heart! (feeling poetic!) Find itty bitty Yasmeen at ye old blog post, click here to go back...
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Dhruv! ... and my thoughts on films... and in-between moments...

June 04, 2021
To the person who recommended me to Dhruv's family for his senior portraits ~ thank you:) I have so much fun meeting friends of friends of friends, and i think it's funniest when I don't know where or when our extended friendship chain began:D I'm totally curious, would love for you to LMK if you are the person who placed your recommendation with S...
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Grace at Seventeen

May 08, 2021
This Spring, I had the immense pleasure of photographing the daughter of a long-ago friend of mine. My friend is Kim, and this is Grace. Kim highly values photographs, as I do. I remember that 20+ years ago, she had an eye:) And Grace has taken two years of Photography electives in high school, so we were 3 of a kind. We had our Planning Session...
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