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.

Hammock Family

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to photograph the lovely Hammock family. I'm posting these photos now, not because I'm a slacker, but because I had to wait until after Father's Day to post these photos. The portraits were taken as a surprise Father's Day gift for my boss (at my part time job). We were lucky to be able to catch a break in the rainy weather in order to take their photos. I was fortunate to get several great photos of the family together and individually. Here are a few of my favorites.

Teeth

When I took photos of my son last week, I immediately had the blog post title in my head. I was going to title it "Eight Seconds" since that is about the amount of time my son cooperated for his photos. I actually spent about 10 minutes from start to finish taking his belated "Eight Year" portrait, but the actual time he cooperated was much less. We were delayed with illness, weather, illness and weather, allergies. . . (you get the idea) for the last three months.

I finally forced him to sit still for his eight year portrait last week on Tuesday. I think the timing was perfect, because the very next day, he knocked a chunk of his front tooth out. The tooth was a "permanent" tooth.  I spent Wednesday afternoon at our dentist and at an endodontist. His tooth is now fixed and it's almost perfect. If you look closely at his tooth now, you can see a slight discoloration. The discoloration may have to be touched up in photos from now on, but at least he still has a tooth, he didn't need to have a root canal, and of course we're lucky he didn't have more serious injuries. Below is a "pre-injury" photo from his session, of his all natural teeth; it may not be the best photo from his session, but it shows his teeth (which I took for granted on Tuesday, but appreciate today).

Mini Sessions

After a slight lull in photography jobs, I have suddenly become a busy bee. With the arrival of spring has come the arrival of photography jobs. Within the last week, I have had three photography jobs. One of those jobs was the mini sessions I did at the Lewis Elementary Garden Fair. Another job I had was taking some head shots of agents and office building photos for a real estate office in Lake Oswego, and a third job was photographing a friend's newborn baby. I'm not planning on sharing all of the different types of photos I took this past week, but here are a couple from the mini sessions in the garden.

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