Brittany came to us in need of some headshots for a very interesting reason.  Later this year she will be traveling to Morocco with Women and Democracy with the goal of discussing the role of democracy in Islamic countries and how it affects women.  Very cool. 

So, she came in and got to hang out with us for a half hour or so, silly conversation and all, and Phil got to work with his favorite new muse.  No, not the obvious choice, the beautiful Brittany, but rather the red wall in the studio.  Ha!  Doesn’t she look lovely, bye for now - Merilee.

Sara Sutherland Dean was looking for some creative photographs to spruce up her web site and other marketing activities so, being a smart cookie, she looked to Phil Holden and his team. 

She wanted some unique, outdoorsy, fun shots to reflect her profession (personal trainer), so we did our shoot at Greenlake on a beautiful, sunny morning.  We had a great time getting various action shots (push-ups, pull-ups, pilates, oh my!), and did our best not to fall in the water.  Dani, her canine companion, even got to make a few cameo appearances and got an aerobic workout to boot.  All in all it was a really fun morning, and we loved that Sarah was thrilled with the results.  Check out a few of her favorites below… 

That’s it for now, Merilee

A week or so ago Nate and Rick came into our photography studio in Seattle.  Its the start of the year so many small business owners are getting updated business headshots created for new marketing materials and that was their goal when they came in.  We often hear feedback that having your headshots taken isn’t exactly fun so Nicole and I work hard at making it fun as we like to have a little bit of a laugh when we are working. 

The two shots above were one’s that Nate selected but I thought I would post some of the goofy outtakes below to make them smile.  Ok, time for tea and then back to work!       

One of the many things that I have been working on these last few weeks has been to prepare for a jewelry project that should be starting soon.  Jenny Miller is the artist and makes amazing jewelry pieces by hand in her workspace out of her home.  She designs and makes all the pieces herself and typically no two are 100% identical.  She first got into her jewelry after the tragic death of her brother as a way to remember him. 

Her work is just beautiful and I’m excited to be working with her on the project.  These photographs of her were taken a couple of weeks ago.  We were in our photography studio in Seattle, Jenny and her close friend Julie were working on naming and descriptions of a number of the pieces, Josh was coding her new web site and I was setting up my photography equipment and lights to take photographs of the jewelry. 

We took a little bit of a break from the work and took some fun photographs of her wearing her art. All in all quite fun!

A few weeks ago I was working on assignment taking some corporate head-shots of a bunch of fun people.   The group was a mixture of guys and gals but all three ladies that I was photographing were all called Michele or the version with two ‘l’s - Michelle.  The assignment was on a Monday and I figured its a Monday so a perfect day to post the Michele’s. 

Maybe we should rename Monday to be Michele!

Angelica came in last weekend to look at the proofs from the photography session that we did the week before.   I also got to met her husband who came along as well which was lovely.   We sat down in the presentation room and reviewed the photographs on the big screen.   It’s a quick and easy process and we soon narrowed down the list to three favorites that they both liked.  Angelica tended to align more for black & white toned photographs, although I gave her the color ones as well in case she needs to use them in her marketing materials.  Here’s two of her final selection.  Quite lovely.