Jady came to see me again for his three month baby session.  Kristen brought outfits for him and we shot all those, but first we took some pictures of Jady in his jammies, per Kristen’s request.  Turns out those are some of my favorites.  Perhaps because I think my daughter lived in striped footy jammies until she was one, so that’s how I photographed her.   Anyway, here’s Jady looking particularly like his cute and cuddly self.

Meet Jeannine and Tom.  I met them last week and I think I have a crush on how they are as a couple.  They’re just so great together.  I love in love people!   I know the context of getting a photo taken is a bit strange and stressful, because it involves giving someone permission to really look at you and your significant other, as the case may be.  But when people can get past that and just be seen and just be together I always take it as a gift.

Tom and Jeannnie, thanks for spending some time with me, and I can’t wait for your wedding in Cobden, which is coming right up.

Here is a sneak peak from Morgan’s senior session.  Morgan has such natural elegance.  I’ll add a couple more images later.

Several sessions to get on the blog, but here are a couple pictures of Chelsea.   Chelsea was a delight to photograph and a natural in front of the camera.

And a faded, vintage tone on one.

I get such great couples!  Here are Brooks and Kelly.  They are so sweet together and so in love.  I’m looking forward to their wedding in November.

I have three weddings to add to the blog, all previewed on my Facebook Business Page (link), but meanwhile, here are some favorites from my session with the Patterson’s.  Steve, Kate, Quinn and Graham.  I love how Graham has a Baby Elvis lip curl thing going on with his baby steps.  And Quinn is full of energy like all the best ones are.  Fun times! And a great family.

Here are a couple of favorites of Mallory, a senior at East Richland Highschool.   Mallory did a great job, and I really enjoyed photographing her.

Looking through all her pictures reminds me of a recurrent thought.  Namely, I take a lot of pictures.  A LOT.  People often ask me how many I take, and my answer should be, “As many as it takes.”  I have shot as many pictures during a senior session as at a wedding, looking for something, some expression, some settling of the person, something I think might rise to the surface if I’m just patient enough to wait for it.  I honestly never know how many pictures I’m going to take.  And one of the most common things I see in amateur photographers is that they don’t take enough photographs, don’t commit to it fully, don’t hang in there until they got the image they were after. The first impression picture is often not the best one, and I live in fear and dread of the “what it looked like” picture which begs the question, “So what?”

I take the occasional what it looked like picture, we all do, and I don’t think any of us will burn in hell for it, but I think there are bigger fish to fry, namely, “What was it like?”  “What was she like?”  “What was he like?”  Obviously, any photograph is going to be conjecture, but that’s what we’re after, isn’t it?  Otherwise we’d all get all our portraits taken at Wal-Mart. A  photograph is a thing we’re going to leave behind.  The worst of our photographs, more than likely will outlive us, even in this day with our 5,000 casual facebook snapshots.

Which is to say, I take it pretty seriously when someone asks me to take their picture.  Lol.