I have been learning a lot about branding and various marketing strategies.  One of those was a project we created in InDesign for an ePub document that can be used for portfolios.  I really enjoyed this assignment; it totally made me think of scrapbooking and I love that! 

For this project I chose to showcase some of the family photo experiences I have been working on recently.  Let me know if you would like to book your session with me before Christmas, I would love to be able to help you capture some great memories with your loved ones.

Click here to view my interactive Family Portfolio.

Grandma and her sweet little granddaughter

 taking a walk while I made images of her cousin.

I had the pleasure yesterday of photographing someone I have known for about two years. I haven't seen Vonna in quite some time, but it was so nice of her to book her photo experience with me.  She has quite the lovely family and they were so much fun to photograph. I didn't feel like I was working at all.

I am so blessed to have worked with her on this overcast, cold fall day at Finch Arboretum in Spokane.  The colors were beautiful and the perfect backdrop to her gorgeous family.  The babies, one who just turned one year a couple days prior, and the other 15 months, were so easy-going. Not a single whimper out of either of them.  I loved watching these two cousins interact with one another and it was super adorable when little H fed cheerios to sweet baby C.

Thank you, Vonna, and family for a super experience.  I look forward to making memories with your family again.

Film Noir

Each year my program, Spokane Falls Community College, rents the Riverside Event Center and we students, along with instructors, are able to do some real location photography.  The goal is to give us the opportunity to use our creative vision to create various photo shoots, all ranging from large production to small production shoots.  My friend, Cory, and I arranged for two large production shoots.  We find models for these shoots, use a hair and make-up school to get our models all ready, and even have to put out costumes together.  Thankfully we have the assistance of our local Civic Theater that guides us with our costumes.

The second of these shoots was a film noir type image.  Cory headed up this shoot and I assisted.  We had a lot of fun capturing these, but it was a process for sure!  We recruited three of our fellow classmates to model for us, along with my daughter.  Our vision was a male piano player with three femme fatales vying for his attention.  The photo below is one of the images I captured in-between shots that Cory was taking.  We were getting all set up while we waited for our final lady to finish getting her hair and makeup done.

In addition to working with Cory for the group large production image, I wanted to take advantage of the lights to capture some other images I had in mind with our ladies.  I have a friend who has a 3D printer and asked him to make me an old time microphone (if you want more info on this let me know and I can connect you with him).  

These images are a start, I know I still have much to learn, but I enjoyed working on them!

I am currently enrolled in a photography degree program and one of our final assignments for my intro to digital class required a slideshow presentation.  I have so many portraits that I have taken for this class that I chose these to showcase for my slideshow theme.