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Senior Portraits- Jake

About a week ago, I had my first Senior boy session of the year at the Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden. I got to photograph Jake, a self-proclaimed non-smiler. To be more specific, he said he didn't do well smiling for photos. Jake is a football player and since his high school's football team won their first State Championship game the day before, he had plenty of reason to smile. I think he managed to do okay with his session considering he's a non-smiler. Here are a few photos from that day.

Family Session in the Park

Blogging is not high on my list of things to do. I realized I hadn't written a blog post in well over a month and it's not from a lack of sessions, just a lack of time (and maybe motivation). I've been fortunate that I've been fairly busy with a variety of work, but I haven't made a peep about it except to my friends and family. Since talking to my family about my jobs makes their eyes glaze over with boredom, I thought I'd post something here.

About two weeks ago, just after Thanksgiving to be exact, I had the honor of photographing my son's former kindergarten teacher, Teacher Dana, and her family. Teacher Dana's children were in town for the holiday weekend so we met at Laurelhurst Park for their session. We were lucky to have a dry and mostly sunny day for the session. (I feel like I write that a lot!) Here are a few photos of her lovely family from their session below.

Twice As Nice- Senior Portraits

As the title of the post implies, I photographed two girls (yes, twins) in two different locations this weekend, sisters Shalene and Kaile. I've known the girls for a few years, yet I was still taken aback by the fact that they are seniors this year. Time really does fly by! I took their portraits at Laurelhurst Park and at Tanner Springs Park. (Thanks Jessica for introducing me to the location). I tried to get individual photos of the girls in most of the same spots but still produce images that are as individual as they are. I also took photos of the two of them together for their parents. Here are a few photos from their session.

Senior Portraits in the Pearl

Three weeks ago, on a steamy 94 degree day, I ventured to the Pearl District to take Senior Portraits. I got to photograph the lovely Jessica in Tanner Springs Park and the surrounding area. Despite the heat and the sweat (we were both sweating buckets), I think I managed to get several really nice shots. Here are a couple of images from her session.

Head Shots

I haven't blogged in a while, but it's not because I didn't have any sessions to blog about. I had some sessions this summer that I could have blogged about, but the summer pretty much steamrolled right over me.  Yep, I'd put "write blog post" on my "To do" list every week this summer and some how life got in the way and it didn't get done. So now, as summer is winding down, and school has started (for my kids), I am sitting down to finally write something.

One of my most recent sessions was head shots for Kellie, a real estate agent. I have actually taken photos of Kellie before (about a year ago), but in most of the shots I took of Kellie, she wasn't wearing her glasses. Kellie choose a photo to use as her head shot for business purposes and on Facebook. Since I'm Facebook friends with Kellie, I got to read as people complimented her photo (the one I took), which made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. But. . . people kept telling her the photo she chose didn't look like her because she didn't have her glasses on. Sigh.

So, Kellie called me up and told me she thought she needed another head shot with her glasses on. We set out on the Reed College campus to take her new head shot with her glasses on. Here is the new pic and the old one, side by side.

Braces

My daughter's birthday was a few months back. We had planned to take her twelve year portrait on or near her birthday, but as with my son, germs and weather and extra-curricular activities seemed to dictate our lives and our possible portrait times. As it got closer to summer, we decided we need to take her portrait before her braces were put on. Of course, in one of my mom-foul moments, I didn't confirm which orthodontist appointment would be the one where she would get her braces put on. Once we were at the appointment, it was too late to back out, but we still hadn't taken her portrait. We decided we had to embrace the braces, and once the initial braces pain went away, we snapped a few photos of her sparkly new mouth jewelry.