Maternity Photos with Lacey

You may recognize a few faces here - I have been so fortunate to be a part of some of life’s biggest moments with one of my dearest friends, Lacey! Recently, I got to take photos with Lacey and her family in order to celebrate the arrival of their son - who will be making his appearance next month, February 2020.

I can’t wait to meet the little fellow. In the meantime, here’s a few photos of Lacey and my other friends (her family) as we anticipate his debut!

Some of my absolute favorite people!!!

Gahhhh could this family be any cuter? We’ll find out next month!

I’ve never shot maternity photos before, but I’m so thrilled with how these came out for my friends! You might even see some baby photos in the near future once he’s arrived!

In November, We Take Portraits

November is one of my favorite times of the year… and one of the busiest! I love this time of year because everyone is feeling festive and also are looking to get their holiday portraits done for the season. Check out a few of my favorite portraits for a few sessions this year… which included a few furry friends!

Melissa, Jonathan, Lil Miss and Ozzie!

This was my second year in a row shooting some holiday photos for Melissa and Jonathan, but this time we decided to take things inside their under-construction home so that we could get a few intimate shots with the rest of their family as well! Lil Miss (kitty) and Ozzie (husky) were both patient sports as they posed all-together for a festive shoot.

Rina & Travis

Two of the most absolute fun people to shoot - ever! This is my fourth year shooting with Rina and Travis for their holiday photos and they always know how to have a fun time and bring their personalities to the shoot!

Kirstin, Derek and Ruff Puff!

This was my first official photoshoot with Kirstin and Derek, and I was so happy the photoshoot included their newest edition as well, Ruff Puff! One of the fluffiest dogs I’ve ever seen, he is quite the stunner - everyone at the park we shot at wanted his attention. This trio really sold the holiday cheer in their red outfits.

Seattle Design Festival 2018: Block Party

For the past three years, I’ve enjoyed attending the Seattle Design Festival, held around Seattle for two weeks every September. This year, I am disappointed that I didn’t have enough time to check out multiple events (I even missed Park(ing) day!) which is such a bummer.

Regardless, I did make it out to the Block Party which at Pioneer Square with a few of my friends. There were many different installations there designed around this year’s theme: TRUST.

My favorite exhibit at the festival was called OPENhouse designed by NAC Architecture. A heart shaped design was within the house shape and there was a lot of room to play with the exhibit.

Trust the Movement was designed by Studio Meng Stazzara. There was a ball about the size of a pinball, moving around the cityscape based on how you and strangers worked together.

Blind Trust was an exhibit designed by BCRA Design encouraging people to write something vulnerable about themselves on a piece of paper to share it with others. We wrote down some of our fears.

The Trust Maze was a very simple but powerful exhibit where you entered a maze and had two directions to go. The person before you would tell you which way successfully led out of the maze, however, they had the ability to lie to you about the correct direction. We had to decide if we trusted the prior visitor with their directions or not, and then we had to decide to be honest or to deceive the next person through the maze.

Sometimes, my favorite way to document this festival is by shooting photos through the exhibits. With the theme of Trust, many exhibits had transparent aspects to their designs which were very fun to take pictures through.

Anddddd here’s a rare photo with me in it! This piece was called Perceived Edges by Mahlum. I think we had more fun climbing the structure and playing in the mirror than the children did.

This Talk to a Stranger exhibit was very cute - Colleen and Chelsea (who I was with) were certainly not strangers, but they had fun reading the prompts to each other anyways.

Leave Your Mark On Seattle attempted to gather opinions from people depending on where they lived in the city. However, I did see some people placing their opinion into many different slots in the map, so the results may have been skewed! Love how this played into the theme of Trust.

The Sticks and Strings exhibit was a fabulous hammock presented by Mithun that had two people laying on a hammock in the middle of pioneer square which was crafted with swimming noodles. It was an interesting take on the “trust fall”.

Another exhibit was called Blind Trust as well (hmmmm it was bound to happen that two companies thought of that title) - this time by Gensler, and architecture firm in Seattle. There were multiple layers of the string that you physically had to move if you wanted to get through.

I can’t wait for next year’s festival and to see what the new theme is!