Erika - Senior Headshot

Ugh! Blogger's still making my pics look RANK! Honestly they are crisp, clear and delish. I gotta figure out how to fix it or change blogs. Here's a quickie senior yearbook photo! And here is her family dog...

Andrea - Senior Headshot

Yearbook deadline is either past or quickly approaching in my area, so I've had a few seniors contact me scrambling for a headshot. Since my studio is outdoor in Mother Nature land, a quick headshot session (15 minutes or less) is the solution until we can do a full senior portrait session in the Spring when the weather is more cooperative ;) Again, Blogger's garbling up my images so they look fuzzy and pixelated (grr), but here are four from Andrea's session. She loved them all (of course), narrowed them down to #2 and #4 then chose #2 for her yearbook shot!

Alyssa - Senior Portraits

Blogger is sure being wonky with paragraphs and spacing. So, nothing clever to write today because it'll just get all jumbled anyway. Alyssa is the daughter of one of my BFF's (can't a girl have more than one/a few). My BFF had been begging me for months to come out of haitus and take some pictures... so I obliged. These are my first senior portraits and, for the photog's, entirely edited using Adobe Lightroom (only used Photoshop to add my logo)! Thanks, Alyssa... you're GORGEOUS and make my job E-Z :) [edit] Ugh, the pics look GROSS on here! Not sure why they are distorted and fuzzy :[ P.S. Sorry if you're bored of seeing these images if you already saw them on Facebook ;)

Rich a.k.a. Mr. Fox

We were in need of another picture post. Here's my friend's-cousin's-boyfriend (did I apostrophe those right?), Rich, at Gas Works Park at the beginning of the year (along with HC, Michelle and Ember, who will be posted soon). Rich was incredibly sweet and great to work with. He's also a bartender, but don't ask him about flippin' (like in Cocktail) ;)

Demetrye a.k.a. H.C.

It was Demetrye's birthday recently ("Happy Birthday, H.C.!"), and I missed it :( But here are some pics I took of him to make up for it. I noticed I picked all the serious looks, but he really DOES have a terrific smile and a great sense of confidence that oozes into the camera. He, his wife, and I became fast friends and I can't wait until we hang out again (they're down south in Longview). I was raised to see people and not the color of their skin, so when I mentioned to Demetrye that I hadn't taken pictures of a chocolate dude, I didn't think anything of it until he started laughing profusely. My intent was to warn him that it might take a little longer for me to get my settings right so I wouldn't under-expose his pictures, not to offend him (his wife is a photographer, so I figured he knew what I was talking about). Luckily, he took it the way I meant it (he has an excellent sense of humor; he laughs at all my jokes - even the lame ones), especially after giving him his new nickname, Hot Chocolate (or H.C. for short). Here's some Hot Chocolate in June for ya...

See?! He really DOES have a great smile (and laughs at my lame jokes)... Demetrye with his beautiful wife, Elena...

EDIT: Here's Elena's blog post about these.

Michelle from P-town

Hey, it's MICHELLE :) I met her sister a few years ago, then met her at Karen's wedding in August. She lives down in Portland, but drove up to Seattle for a bunch of photogs to take her picture. Michelle is a kickin' model ;) Here are some of my favorites (eek, there are so many)...

This is my fave... Another fave...