This is a website that I haven’t spent a lot of time on, but every time I do visit www.etsy.com I have to try hard to restrain myself from grabbing my wallet. Brides, Etsy is a great place for you to find unique jewelry & really creative decorations for your wedding. Here are a couple […]

People often ask me “what should I wear“? I tell my clients to wear something nice that looks like YOU. I’ve heard a lot of other photographers say to only wear solid colors. While solid colors do look nice, I’m also a believer that stripes and plaids can look great too. It really comes down […]

Every year my husbands side of the family gets together for a Christmas weekend in Everett. I love my husbands family like my own and I always look forward to the yearly reunion. This year and last we’ve taken a huge family picture, I think it’s safe to say it’s now a tradition:) We always […]

Apart from the dress, shoes, flowers, cake, photography & other wedding day essentials, the venue will definitely be something your guests will remember. Since I’m a wedding photographer I’ve been to lots of venues and I would love to highlight a few of my favorites. Today I”m going to start out with the Apple Tree […]

I’m super stoked to be ordering my new albums today. These new albums will offer a variety of cover choices; Fabrics, colors, leather, metallic and pictures. There will also be lots of paper options; Art linen, UV coated, & Pearl coated. The new albums have lay flat spreads with no middle gutter so the pages […]

Ok, so this one is for photographers 🙂 I can’t remember the last time I did a photo shoot for two hours and I was the one IN FRONT of the camera instead of behind it. Doing photo shoots is easy for us (photographers) because we do them all the time. It’s important to remember […]

I love to read other peoples’ blogs and I aspire to be a great blogger myself someday. Writing is something I struggle with so when Amy Guild told me to do a 100 blog challenge with her I thought she was crazy. After giving it some thought I’ve decided to give it my best effort. […]

Another wonderful winter shoot! We started off in downtown Yakima and ended up at the Cascade Gardens. It was a pretty nice day downtown, blue skies, sun, not too cold…. but it was the complete opposite when we got to the Cascade Gardens. There was a thick blanket of fog and about a foot of […]

Yesterday Amy Guild, Kara Bracchi & I set out to take pictures of winterly things. It was an interesting task because unfortunately all the snow had melted so things just didn’t look the same without all the white fluff. We were wandering around downtown Yakima and came across the Garden Girl. This has always been […]