Katie & Kyle are getting married today! & I’m the lucky enough one who gets to share their day with them: well, me and my camera Before the ceremony starts, here’s chapter two of their engagement story… Chapter 2: September 22, 2009 It was Katie’s birthday and we had tickets to go to a luau....
Monthly Archives: July 2010
guest writer: the twenty five cent ring
Kyle & I went to high school together. More specifically, we spent at least a class a day together for all four years, which is sort of a novelty in our big high school: Agriculture Class. We sat through hours of tool identification & meat judging. Then there was soil judging & record books. I...
shannon’sNovella: funks & rabbit holes
I was in a funk. Eric, who second shot Carly & Garrett’s wedding with me in Roseberg, OR, and I stopped at McMenamin’s Edgefield, in Troutdale, OR on the trip home. Eric wanted to wander the grounds & shoot, but I was in a funk. I decided not to drag all my equipment around, instead...
Prequel: McMenamins Edgefield
McMenamins Edgefield in Troutdale, OR.
fotoNovella: Lavender Festival 2010
Somewhere in my childhood I developed an aversion to lavender. I connected the smell of lavender to an old woman purple cardigan & decided that lavender, psshh…too grandma-ish for me! So the lavender salts on my grandma’s vanity…uggh! The lavender room spray…yuck! & the lavender soap an ex-boyfriend gave me one Christmas…well, I did use...
Prequel: shades of Lavender
Lavender Festival at Purple Ridge Lavender in Hermiston, OR
fotoNovella: Kim & Kids
Enjoy each ride, as if it’s your last. Riding becomes a ritual. Tugging on your worn, fit-to-foot boots you grab the halter and head to the pasture where your equine friend is nodding his head at you in welcome & stomping his foot in his anticipation of the ride. You slip the halter on and...
prequel: as if it’s the last.
Enjoying each ride, as if it’s the last.
weddingNovella: Becky and Carl
We are introduced through friends or we have been good friends for along time or we went to high school together. However the introduction, we hit it off & in the name of photography, we meet for coffee or dinner and we catch-up on life. We chat and laugh and I fall a little more...