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I take photos for work and I take photos for fun. I can’t imagine doing anything else. I'm a professional who’s been in the business for close to 20 years, with a long history in art, who grew up on a farm and knows how to work. The value of photography is not in the number of pictures you capture or the cameras you use. It's the eye of the photographer. The experience. The way they interact and communicate. What I bring to the job is talent, experience and service. I’m a graduate of the Art Institute of Seattle and the School of Hard Knocks. I’ve lived int the most diverse zip code in the country since 1995. In 1993 I married my hubby Mo. We live with our beasties Lisa and Elvis.

Jazz Singer Sue Bell/ Seattle Photographer

  Jazz singer Sue Bell performs at the Tula’s. Sue has a crazy amazing voice and gives a wonderful performance.  If you have the chance go see her!

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Bitter Sweet/Family Portraits/Seattle photographer

Sometimes life really pisses me off.  Stage 4 pancreatic cancer is not fair.  This is the most gentle of men ever.  Dammit. I first meet this family about 13 years ago when I was commissioned to shoot one of the kid’s wedding…in this very spot in fact.  Ever since then we have all been orbiting [...]

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DIY Dishwasher Detergent

It’s cheap. It works. And it’s better for the environment. What’s not to love. DIY Dishwasher Detergent Ingredients: 1 box Borax (4lbs 12 oz or 76 oz)-found in the detergent isle-$3.38 1 box Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda (55oz or 3 lbs 7oz) found in the detergent isle.-$3.24 Citric Acid-usually found in the canning [...]

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Kaija/Head shots/Seattle Photographer

Wow It’s been a while.  I almost forgot how to access my dashboard.  You know your a bad blogger when……… Anyhow, meet Kaija.  You’ve seen her before I just love working with her so here she is again.  Kaija needed some new head shots.  That’s it-just head shots.  It’s amazing just how far off course [...]

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Flat Stanley visit Seattle

 

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DIY Laundry Soap

What’s this have to do with Photography?  Nothing. It’s just that I very sensitive skin and this is one of the few detergents that work for me.  And it’s CHEAP!  And I like making stuff. You will need: 4 cups of hot tap water 1 Fels Naptha Soap Bar, ~$3.99 a bar 1 cup Arm [...]

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Allie & Kyle’s Wedding/Seattle Wedding Photographer

It’s that time of year where everything is grey.  Grey light, grey plants, grey, grey, grey.  And it’s when I find myself doing the majority of my album design.  As I sit here working on Allie and Kyle’s album it keeps making me smile and it’s inspired me to revisit their great wedding. All the [...]

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Citrus Candle/DIY

So it’s the day before New Years Eve.  And we’ll be hosting a small dinner party, well part of one.  Nothing fancy.  Just a group of neighbors.  We’ll be doing a different course at each house.  We have the main dinner course.  It’s going to be easy-baked trout.   We live in a shoe box sized [...]

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Family Portraits/Seattle Photographer/Seward Park

  Meet the Stanley’s.  I first meet the girls while covering Honored Elder’s Day at the Seattle Girls School last spring.  It was one of those moments when everything just clicked.  You know how that feels?-everything just lined up right so to speak.  Then this past fall we got together for a family session at [...]

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Raymond turns 2/Seattle Photographer/Children’s Portraiture.

In October little Raymond (v2 as I like to call him) turned 2.  A quick plane ride to Boise is all took to get home-made cake, icecream, baby bowling, visiting and a stop at the zoo. Grandma made this cake.  I was a truck made of chocolate cake with butter cream frosting and candy accents.  [...]

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