I am offering three urban photo session at half the normal sitting fee - $50 and there is only one discounted session left. Contact me if you are interested.

Some more urban pictures of my family taken in downtown Tacoma.

And the winners are:

First Place: Photo 13



Second Place: Photo 12



Third Place: Photo 2



Congratulations to the winners (you'll be hearing from me shortly) and thanks to all for participating. 499 people voted for their favorite photo! Wow! Check back often because I plan to run contests and specials periodically throughout the year.

The Urban Session

My family was good to me today. They let me take them to downtown Tacoma for some exploring/picture taking. My kids are typically not very cooperative models for me. They are without a doubt my most challenging subjects. But today they were pretty goofy and cooperative - two things that tend to lead to good photos.

I love the urban look to these photos. I think it is a modern and fresh look for portraits. I'd like to do more urban work . . . so, I'm offering a special - half off the sitting fee ($50) - to the first three families to book an urban session.









It was also nice and sunny out today making for some gorgeous light for me to try out my new lens. For those photogs out there I just got a Canon 70-200/2.8L IS. It is big and heavy and incredible! I love the zoom and the background blur is yummy. I bought it mostly for a wedding I'm going to be doing this fall but I think it will have a place in outdoor portrait work as well.

Keep voting in the contest below. We're almost up to 500 votes!!! Winners will be announced in Tuesday.

The Best of 2007

Happy New Year!

To kick off 2008, I'm running a blog contest to pick the "Photo of the Year" for 2007. Following are my 14 favorite client photos from last year. It was very hard to pick my favorites, but these are the ones that I am drawn to the most. Please vote below and encourage family and friends to do the same.

First Place: One mounted 11x14 copy of the print and a coupon for a free photo session.
Second Place: One 8x10 copy of the print and a coupon for half off of a photo session.
Third Place: One 5x7 copy of the print and a coupon for half off of a photo session.

Voting ends Monday, January 14.

****Contest Update Sunday, 1/13 noon****

After 455 votes it is Photo 13, Photos 12 and Photo 2 for the top three spots. Photos 11, 6 and 5 are putting up a good fight for spot number 3. Voting ends tomorrow night at midnight. I'll post the winners Tuesday morning.


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Photo #11



Photo #12



Photo #13



Photo #14

White Christmas

Being from California, I've never seen snow on Christmas Day before. There really wasn't much snow, but it still was magical and these cousins had fun sledding on a mix of snow, grass and mud!

A few more moments from my pre-Christmas session.

Happy Holidays