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Archive for the 'portraits' Category
06
Sep
08
NEW BLOG!!!
On Sunday I ventured over to the Woodmark Hotel in Kirkland to photograph Molly and Matt’s wedding. Molly and Matt live in Jacksonville, Florida where Molly just graduated from college and Matt is stationed in the Navy, so Molly’s parents were who hired me. I found myself really liking and respecting Molly’s parents when we met and was super happy to have them choose me to photograph the wedding of their youngest daughter. When I finally met Molly on one of her excursions up here for wedding planning, I was just as impressed with her as I was with her parents, which made me that much more excited to shoot her wedding!
So after many months of planning, the day arrived and it couldn’t have been prettier. The Woodmark has this beautiful tent outside looking out on the water of Lake Washington that they use when the weather permits, and even though the forcast had been questionable, and there were a couple rain drops early in the morning, the day cleared to beautiful blue skies and upwards of 70 degrees by the time we started taking pictures, and they had their ceremony against the setting sun. Since Matt and most of his buddies are in the military, the groomsmen wore their dress whites (and one dress blues in the the Marines), and they finished off the ceremony with a sword ceremony of their own. It was quite beautiful.
Here are some of my favorites:
Congrats you two!
Vendors:
Photography: ME!!!! 
Rebecca Ellison Photography
Wedding Planner: Nadia Ly from Creations By Ly
(Nadia was very professional and kept the day going very smoothly. I would definately recommend her)
Venue: The Woodmark Hotel
Cassandra and TJ got married on Saturday at the South County Senior Center in Edmonds, WA. The senior center looks out at the Puget Sound right next to the Kingston Ferry. It was a beautiful view and the weather decided to clear up just in time for them to change plans and have the wedding outside by the water. After hearing that the weather was going to be iffy all week for the weekend, it was such a nice surprise to enjoy the day outside.
TJ was such a sweetheart. When I asked how long he and Cassandra had been together, he didn’t miss a beat and said “seven years, eight months, 30 days and a couple hours!” Now that is a guy who values every minute of his love with Cassandra!
Congats you two!!!
I photographed a pregnant Piper Moore and her hubby Seth back in May. I told them that I would keep our photos off any public site until after they gave birth to their daughter Aine Elaine Moore, because at the time I was the only person other than them who knew Aine’s name. It was really sweet, because they wanted to use some blocks to spell out her name and have them in the photos. That is why these shots have stayed off of my blog!
We went to Greenlake and walked around while we shot. They wanted to make sure that Seth was in most of the shots, so we played with traditional maternity shots and more portrait style.
I found out recently that Piper gave birth to a healthy baby girl, so congrats to the new family!
This weekend I ventured over to Vashon Island just Southwest of Seattle for Barrett and Tom’s wedding. Vashon is the cutest little town. When my assistant and I were driving to the venue, we passed this major “event” on the island which was the largest yard sale I think I have ever seen! I swear, there are some things that will only happen on an island. I could have sworn half the island was there; I was just sad that I didn’t have time to stop and look around!
Anyway…I was super happy waking up on Saturday to be met with beautiful blue skies out my window, which look much better than the scary thunder, lightning and RAIN storms that had been off and on all week long. In any other part of the country, one could assume that a late August wedding is safe to have outdoors, but here in the beautiful Pacific NW… one can never know!
I met Tom and Barrett at Pt. Robinson Light House for their first site and pictures. I had orchestrated with the Vashon Parks departmet (who were super helpful) to have Captian Joe there to let Barrett’s dad’s mid 70′s Cherry Red bathtub Porsche (for those who aren’t German car literate a bathtub Porsche looks like an upside down old fashioned bathtub… look here.) It was so fun to have the rustic feel of the lighthouse with such a classic car! We did most photos there and then drove over to the Tramp Harbor Dock for the rest of the bridal pics. Vashon is such a cute island! There were endless places we could have found to take photos. I am inspired to take an old Rollieflex and bum around that town for a day.
Anyway, here are some of my favorites from their beautiful day. Thank you to Barrett and Tom for choosing me to spend it with you! I had a blast.
Tom and Barrett got to spend a couple minutes alone at the top of the lighthouse… but then the door locked on them! Luckily there was enough of us around to run up and let them back out… they did have somewhere to be after all
This shot reminds me of lovers lane in the 70s… ( and the blurred out license plate is just for the web)
The food was done by Shefidgets Catering on Vashon. The food was so beautiful that I had to get some shots of is through the venue Sound Food (where the wedding was).
The cookies were their party favors. Supe cute!
The groomsmen’s gifts were a bottle of Jameson and a harmonica! It was very clever. And there was a groomsman who didn’t want to get to far from is bottle of Jameson!
05
Aug
08
Baby Ethan
This kid has a smile to melt hearts. Ashleigh is moving back to Canada this week, and she wanted some photos of her son before she went. She realized that Ethan was turning 7 months and she still didn’t have any photos done of him. So, we went out this evening right before his bedtime, and he was still super happy and not cranky… we shot till the crakiness arrived, then called it a day. This kid is cute!
Ashleigh will have reason to dread this look when he gets older. All ready looking mischievous before he can even crawl.
He didn’t want me taking pictures of his toes 
But I got some anyway!
04
Jun
08
Mothers Day
I had the luckiness to see my little niece and my brother and sister in law on Mothers Day this year. Audrey (my niece) is my little muse. I can’t seem to not take great pics of her ever, so here are some! My sis-in-law Erica is preggers with babie Annie right now and is less than a month from birth now. So we wanted to get some shots of Audrey kissing her sissy. They are the cutest family and I count my blessings that I get to be related to them!
this profile of Audrey is one my most favorite
then there is one of my dad… just cuz he’s so handsome (and one of the rare times I get him without him making some crazy face)
04
Jun
08
Annie and Casey: Engaged!
Its been a while since I have had time to blog! Been a bit busy and I’ve been wanting to post something new for a while…. So here we are!
I’m shooting Annie and Casey’s wedding in July of this year and we knew that we were running out of time to shoot their engagement pics. We all were hoping for a sunny day so that we could get some fun sunset pictures, but alas, since we live in the Seattle area, it didn’t look likely to happen. After rescheduling twice we decided to just go out and have fun in the weather that we had… which if anyone knows Seattle…. it was rainy We went to the Olympic Sculpture Park in by the Seattle waterfront and played with what we had.It ended up being really fun. Here are some of my faves
There were a bunch of red chairs on a patio that I wanted to incorporate in some of the pictures too.
So, I’ve finally been bitten by the blog bug. I am excited to have a way for everyone to see what it is that I am up to. I have so many images that never get seen by anyone but my client or myself and I have decided that it is time to change that
Last week I had the privilege of photographing a really cute couple. I took Dan and Kailen to Pioneer Square and down too Georgetown in the Seattle area. We walked around and hung out in alley ways taking some really great shots . They were a blast to hang around with and they made taking their photos rediculously easy because they were so comfortable just being themselves.
Here are some of my favorite shots
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