This weekend much of our time in the studio in-between photography sessions is being spent printing and framing many of our clients orders for holiday gifts.  Its exciting to see everything coming together and that many people are going to be getting beautiful pieces of art of their loved ones for gifts this holiday.

Here are three lovely black & white photographs that were taken in our photography studio in Seattle that I just printed up that I thought I would post. 

I was just packing up some photographs for a client of a really fun session that we had in our photography studio in Seattle.  Mum brought her two lovely teenagers into the studio for a surprise session for Dad and we had a real blast. 

Anyway, Mum is swinging by our studio today to pick-up some holiday gifts from the same session and I thought I would post these two favorites. 

One of the popular services that we offer our newborn baby clients is to schedule their photography session in the comfort of their own home.   We know that the first few weeks are hectic and its often easier for us to come to you. So this weekend we got the chance to meet the simply beautiful Joshua and his adorable parents in their Seattle home. 

His Mum has been the childhood friend of Sara, one of my friends and I was honored when we got asked to photograph this young guy.  After re-arranging their living room a little we got started with lots of ideas to create some photographs that we think his parents will love.  We even managed a guest appearance of their two cats - all be it not too happy with the attention!

This little man was so good throughout the session and he didn’t cry at all and even stayed awake for the whole thing.  I know Mum and Dad are keen to see some initial previews so I thought I would post some here - I bet Aunt Sara will enjoy them too!

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Recently we got to hang out with a lovely couple and their son in our photography studio in Seattle.  It was actually Cameron’s 6 months birthday and what a fun way to spend it with Mum and Dad playing around. 

The session was a whole lot of fun and the energy in the studio was super high and he seemed to have a great time.  I’m excited to get them back to see the complete set of previews.  Until then here is a little sneak peak. 

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Today has been a red letter day as we got to photograph three different newborn babies.  The first was in our Seattle Photography Studio, the second on location at the parents home and then the third I went up to the hospital tonight to visit them while they were recovering. 

I always feel honored that parents put their trust in me photographing their newborn baby and its something that we love doing.  So when we get asked to photograph a baby during their first 24 hours of their life you can imagine how excited we are.

Baby John took his sweet time coming into the world, but look at him now all healthy and full of life.  He finally arrived yesterday around lunch time much to the joy of his parents, grandma, friends and family and the amazing staff at Group Health in Seattle.   Tonight I got to spend a little time with him and his parents Nicole and Stephan and I thought I would post these straight away as I know folks are really wanting to see this little guy.

Isn’t life grand!

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Back in February of this year Nicole and Stephen came into our photography studio in Seattle to make some photographs of them for Valentines Day.  We had a fun session and it was clear that they were well and truly in love. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that ten months later that they were back in the studio for their maternity photographs.  We had a fun time together and took our time letting Nicole relax.  Here are a few quick previews for them. 

It’s well and truly dark this morning so I thought I would post a fun colorful photograph to counter those winter blues.  This one was taken a little while ago and I just finished preparing a beautiful canvas photograph of this for the studio as one of our new studio samples.  There is something that I just love about the energy and color in this.  Such a fun way to start the morning!

One of the many visitors we had last weekend in our photography studio here in Seattle was this completely adorable young couple and their two children.  They came via my good friend Mark Eskenazi who is another professional photographer here in Seattle.  He had asked me if they could schedule a session here as he wasn’t able to shoot them right away and I was delighted to help. 

Here are a few quick previews for them to see of Mum with their beautiful baby daughter.  I’m looking forward to getting them back into the studio to show them the complete set of proofs.  

This Saturday one of the sessions that we had in our photography studio here in Seattle was of baby Noah.  If you have visited this blog before you might recognize him and Mum as we have been photographing him since he was two weeks old.  I especially love working with clients during their babies first year or eighteen months growth, its just so much fun to watch them grow and become toddlers right before our eyes.  And of course the babies relax more as they come back to a familiar environment. 

Here are three fun shots of the growing young man hanging onto Mum. 

I have been wanting to blog these photographs for a while.  They were taken in our photography studio in Seattle and show some of the fun that we frequently have in our studio. Just a brother and his younger sister goofing around and having fun with me working away to capture many of those magic and funny moments.  I just love the energy within these frames and how it captures that developing relationship.

Happy Sunday everyone! 

A couple of weeks ago I got the chance to photograph an exciting new children’s gym in Redmond.  Great Play core concept is based around kids having lots of fun while at the same time developing a love of physical activity that will lead to lifetime of different activities.  The Great Play concept first started in Stamford, CT but now the greater Seattle area has one for themselves, opened by Marie Maxwell in Redmond.

When Marie asked me to come in to photograph her new gym I jumped at the chance, although I wasn’t quite sure what to expect.   Over the years I have been to a number of children’s gym’s, but they are normally focused on one or two sports.  Marie’s Redmond gym is very different and unique.  Great Play’s classes are filled with fun interactive and different exercises that are developed specifically for a child’s age to develop their movement and motor skills.  One of the obviously things that you notice is that the gym is very high tech to enhance the experience for the kids.  The wall’s are basically huge screen’s and then projectors display different scene’s and fun characters that the kids just love.  What I find great about this concept is that as I watched the kids enjoying themselves you could actually see them become much more confident as they did things that they didn’t think they could.  I put together a quick video slide show some of the fun the kids have plus lots of photo’s, just click on the thumbnail below. 

All in all a great fun morning, I had a blast but must admit that I was pretty exhausted afterwards as I ran around trying to capture these young kids who were full of energy.    I’ve added a small collection of many of the photographs that I captured that day below so you can see them as well.

Cheers

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Last week was Anne’s birthday and to celebrate it she decided that we should take her photograph while she was in our photography studio here in Seattle.  Taking photographs might seem a normal thing for us to do, but in the few weeks that Anne has been with us she has refused to have her photograph taken.  It’s something that Nicole and I often tease her about. 

So, you can imagine how surprised Nicole and I were when Anne walked in on her birthday saying that she wanted her photograph taken.  Not surprisingly we were busy working on various holiday photograph projects and the day was close to an end and we still hadn’t taken her photograph, so she pulls on her cool Pea Coat and insisted we take her photograph before she left that day!  I used two single lights on one side to give her a more moody look and let the shadow work its magic on the other side. 

When I was looking at these there was something that reminded me of the iconic James Dean photographs taken by Dennis Stock many years ago.  Yeah, I realize its a bit of a stretch but the cool Pea Coat got me thinking. I ended up processing these with some heavy toning to create an older look for these.  All in all I quite like these, I hope Anne will.  

A few days ago I got the chance to sit down with Suzanne to review their proofs from our recent photo session in our Seattle photography studio.  We managed to get a nice manageable number for her to take home to show Frank.  These three were a few of our favorites and I thought I would post them quickly for them before I start my day. 

I have to say that I love Olivia’s beautiful red cowboy boots.  I’m a big fan of cowboy boots and with the fall weather arriving I have been wearing mine much more frequently.  Believe it or not I had my eye on a pair of red ones as well, all be it a bit darker leather.  But I’m saddened to report that when I went to the store to buy them they were sold out and had switched suppliers.  Ms Olivia’s red pair here were actually a gift from her much older brother, how cool is that!  Such a lucky young lady.  

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Earlier today I got the chance to sit down with Mum and Dad and review a number of photographs of these beautiful baby twin girls.  These photographs were taken last week in our photography studio in Seattle and we combined the session with casual clothing, Halloween outfits and of course Holiday photographs, one of which that I’m almost certain is going to end up being sent out as a very cool and fun holiday card.  

Here’s a quick preview of two photographs of the fun and lovely Halloween outfits.  Just so much fun! 

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I just finished up with uploading some additional previews of another recent Holiday Photography session that we had last week in our photography studio here in Seattle.  This time it’s Shelley, who not only brought her two beautiful children, but they brought their lovely black Labrador dogs.  Oh my gosh, did we have so much fun!   We started out photographing just the kids, then Mum joined us for a while and it wasn’t long before we had all five of them rolling around the studio having fun.  We are excited to get Shelley in to see the complete round of proofs, but until then here is a sneak peak for her and her crew.  

I’ve also created this mini video of some of the out-takes from our session together.  Anne is doing  a great job at capturing some video footage of our sessions, there is a funny clip in here where the young puppy covers me with kisses while I’m trying to get the kids to turn around.  Funny.  Click on the thumbnail below to see the short clip plus these slides. 

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