The World Concern “Free Them” 5k Run was held at the CRISTA campus in Shoreline/Seattle today (May 1st). The “Free Them” run was started to raise money to help put an end to human trafficking… such a wretched thing! If ever there was a cause to fight for it is human trafficking.  Just watch the movie “Taken” with Liam Neeson and it will get you fired up about the issue.  Ending human trafficking is a cause everyone can and should stand behind – speaking plainly.  I originally was just going to take photos of my old college roomie, Joseph Lee, but when he took me on a tour of World Concern and I got to meet all of his coworkers they seemed like they would be interested in photos of the event.  Of course I was obliged for such an awesome cause (if you haven’t caught my drift yet) so I woke up quite early to snap the following shots:

Oh and by the way… I don’t think I’ve mentioned it here but I’m living in Seattle officially now (have been for about a month).  I’m living with my OTHER old roommate, David Chen.  I’m shooting his wedding later this summer in exchange for rent at his place.  It’s a great deal for both of us, especially because I’m now only 15 minutes away from Allison, who ironically also works at CRISTA but in the senior living area.  She loves the people there and I’m beginning to see why.  You can see from the pictures this is quite a fun bunch. ‘nJoy

ONE more thing… You can feel free view / download / buy all of the other pictures I took HERE (http://www.zenfolio.com/onephotonerd/p823929524/)  All I ask is that you spread the word that there is a cool new photographer in town.  By the way… the cool new photographer is me.

Joseph and Myself

More photos HERE

I love a good group of animated people and that is exactly what the Jake and Katie wedding was like. Jake and Katie as well as the whole bridal party met doing theater together and let me tell you, their attitudes (especially the bridesmaids) was nothing short of ‘theatrical’. When a wedding photographer (or at least one such as myself) meets with the bridal party it’s a slam dunk wedding when you see “bitchin’ bridesmaids” on their tank top, or see them offering me a champagne out of a coffee mug. The wedding was on a Friday at the Hilton in Downtown Portland off of Broadway street right next to the Pioneer Courthouse Square. This was my first wedding in DT Portland and I have to say that I’m a big fan of city weddings. I still have a ton of photos and videos to get through but have a look at a quick preview:

Todd, Ashley, Marley and Me had a fun time on Marley’s first photoshoot. She did surprisingly well. All this talk of “terrible twos” that i’ve been hearing maybe just hype. Marley did great and even had a few wardrobe changes after about 3 locations.  Also, near the end you will see some pictures that I did for Nadia later that day.  I love Trista Martin’s creative take on life and we always work great together when it comes to planning sets.  It was her idea to place the pink chair in the middle of nowhere and I think it turned out awesome.  I hope you enjoy the pictures.  On a more personal note… I’ll be moving up north to Seattle soon.  I will be traveling back and forth between Vancouver and Seattle (as I already do).  If you’re looking to book me for a shoot make sure to send me an email so we can arrange things. I’m gunna be moving in with my old roommate, David Chen, in exchange for shooting his wedding.  I’m very excited to move back in with a very good friend, but more importantly to be only 15 minutes away from Allison.  WOOT!

I’ve been meeting with Amanda and her mom, Donna for quite some time now.  We’ve been going over wedding preparations, scheduling, photographs, everything.  I remember saying, plan for extra time because unexpected things will always come up – they always do.  That’s exactly what happened yesterday.  The makeup appointment was mis-scheduled by the beautician and they were stuck in Portland traffic which led to 1.5 hours behind schedule.  Needless to say I was getting a bit nervous but luckily we had a lot of extra time planned in to everything.  Let that be a lesson to anyone planning a wedding!  Anyways, working with Amanda, Seth, and the whole crew was a blast.  The guys were awesome, I heard about 5 “that’s what she said” jokes, a lot of them seemed to know my brother, Jason, and they all seemed pretty down to earth.  The ladies rocked and gave me kudos for knowing to smile with the eyes (thanks Tyra Banks).  Once they made that reference I knew they would be down for a little bit of a wedding/runway/fashion show.  That’s what we did during some of the girls’ group shots.

Needless to say, I had a blast, my feet were dead tired and had sores, but I survived off of my double shot of Spark.  Well anyways, take a look at the sneak peek.  Some of these photos you have to had been there to appreciate but you’ll get the idea.

And here is a little something I put together for Amanda and her bridesmaids.  They danced the Hoedown Throwdown by Miley Cyrus and I have to say it was pretty amusing to watch so I decided to put this together.  Enjoy:

With so many pictures of other people on my blog, I thought it would be time for you guys to see some more of me.  After all, that is what the world needs right… joking.  Anyways, I thought I’d take a more personal note to this blog post for a number of reasons, but mostly because I’d like to talk (brag) about how awesome my girlfriend, Allison is.  Here are some little known facts about Allison and myself:

1. We enjoy nachos 100% of the time.  We even reserved two domain names (www.deleriouslyfull.com and nachobuzz.com) to blog about our affinity for nachos.  You’ll see we have yet to actually post anything there.  Our goal is to eventually get free nachos from restaurants in order to review them.
2. Allison has a funny thing about arm spasms.  Sometimes she likes them and says things like “my arm is spasming again… that’s my workout for the day”.  Other times she wants to destroy her arm because it bugs the crap out of her.  My goal is to get one of these reactions on video
3. I love the temperature in the car a bit colder than she does.  In fact, I think she just likes it blazing hot.  I believe her quote was, “I don’t turn down the heat until my eyes are dried out”.  Yup, that is how hot she likes it in the car.  Whenever she drives, I always roll down the window for hopes of retaining some sort of normal body temperature.  This inevitably ends in her rolling up the window and me trapping my arm in it.  I always lose the debate over temperature and have learned not to wear any coats in the car.
4. There are many debates I actually always lose to Allison and my married friends say to just get used to it and that the quicker I learn the better.  The one debate I will not give up, however, is the usefulness of the iPhone.  Allison is sort of a purist and tries to make fun of me for using my iPhone all of the time.  I think she believes that phones are for talking and texting.  Part of me thinks she is just jealous of the superior Bejeweled capabilities.  In fact, whenever I leave the dinner table, or walk away from my phone at any time, I always find her attempting to, and eventually completing the task of beating every high score on every game.  It drives me crazy how she beats all of my high scores so quickly.  Here are some examples from Doodle Jump and Bejeweled (all of my games look like this): 
5. Also, make sure you check out Allison’s Etsy Store to buy some awesome crocheted hats.

Now to explain a bit of what I did on Valentine’s Day.  It was basically a very random and very fun hodge-podge of events that included a speed dating challenge, target shooting with a .22 rifle, catch phrase, squash carving, poetry/acrostic competition, shuffleboard competition, and a few other challenges.  Take a look at some of our date:

After a late night adventure up to Rocky Butte Viewpoint in Portland, Oregon Allison and I decided to return at 6:00am the next morning.  Here are all of the photos we took on Valentine’s Day as well as the next morning.

Yes, it’s been quite a while since I’ve posted on my blog.  Today (as beautiful out as it may be) has been a day of updating.  I’ve been getting my blog layout super-simplified.  Before it was a bit too difficult to find certain things.  Now I’m hoping the layout will be easy for everyone to navigate.  This isn’t permanent, but nothing ever really is with an artist is it?  So I’ve decided to post a few shots from a concert I attended a while ago.  Playing at this benefit show was The Neverclaim and Addison Road.  I really dug Addison road a lot… And so did the 15 year-old boy who was assisting me.  In fact, I’m pretty sure his heart dropped when he found out that the lead singer was married.

Last Saturday, studio lights met with Christmas lights for a complimentary photo/video shoot put on by Focus Designs, Valeo Visual, and David Martschinske Photography to give our community something different this year.  It was awesome to see the studio packed with people listening to Christmas music, riding SBU’s, enjoying plenty of holiday snacks, and yes, even samples of SPARK from Cindy Wood.  The idea was to give people something different, awesome, and FREE while exposing everyone to what we do.  In the time that I have been working as a photographer I’ve found that the best advertising has come from the people that know me well and talk about my work to others and I’m excited to see new clients emerge from Saturday’s festivities.

Garret Hergert:

David, Jordyn, and David:

Katie and Cindy:

The Caudle Family:

The Chumbley Family:

Karyn and Philip:

The Dennis Family:

Along with my previous photoshoot, I had the priveledge of shooting Christmas photos for Grace Foursquare Church in Camas, Washington.  The coolest thing about this shoot is that they even had a well-known National artist, Elida Field paint a mural on a wall.  When they asked me what I wanted on the wall, this is what I gave them to give to Elida:

…I’m really glad she just used this as a starting point because what she came up with was 300% better than what I gave her.  Below is only a few of my favorite photos.  These photos are available for download below.  You can download each file to have it printed somewhere OR you can order on the website if it is more convenient for you.

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3 – Thank you Dale Chumbley for doing the photos this week.  I was visiting Seattle to see the Nutcracker Ballet with Allison.  It was awesome.

Week 1

Week 2

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One of the many perks to being a wedding photographer is being able to do engagement sessions.  I highly recommend doing one (not like I’m biased or anything) for a number of reasons.  First of all, it is a great way for clients to get used to a photographer and their style.  I’m talking more about their personality than I am picture-style.  People tend to pick up on my (interesting) personality fairly quickly and find that I’m pretty friendly and that my jokes are really lame.  I feel that the reason there is so much LIFE in my pictures is because it is my goal to do so.  I am more concerned with genuine expression than I am composition and focus.

Now that I’m off my soapbox, let me introduce you to Mike and Terina.  Mike met Terina in Montana where they both went to college.  Terina knew me from a long time ago back when I played soccer with Dale Stacks in my younger years.  Dale has seen my photography on Facebook and once his sister needed a wedding photographer… BOOM it all began.  I suggested that Terina, Mike, and I meet at Lewisville Park in the Battle Ground area because I knew there would be a wide range of photos to take and there would also be tons of orange leaves.  Fall engagement sessions ROCK because there is so much color all over the place.  I absolutely love it.  In addition to doing photos for Mike and Terina, I’ve been slowly moving towards a cinematic approach to engagement sessions.  Granted, this is my first attempt at this presentation of an engagement session but I want to make videos like this in addition to the photos I take.  In the future, I plan to have more of a story-line to these cinematic experiences and plan to adapt and enhance the style of Mind Castle Studios, a video studio up in Seattle that I am quickly becoming a huge fan of.  Well, enough talk – take a look at what I’ve done with Mike and Terina:

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One of the things people say a lot about my photography (wedding especially) is my use of color.  For this wedding I was on cloud nine when it came to their color choice – bright yellow.  All day the color just popped out and so did all the fun times.  From puddle jumping with the bridesmaids to an impromptu “America’s Next Top (bride) Model” fashion walk the day was packed with awesomeness.  I would have to say that this wedding is an example of the weather playing tricks on an unfortunate couple.  Their original reception location got rained out the night before and they booked their new reception location, the Pierson Air Museum. All things considered, the timing was a Godsend as the clouds parted ways RIGHT before the ceremony.  It was almost angelic.  Take a look at this fun day:

Order Pix here (http://www.zenfolio.com/onephotonerd/p686420825) pix should be finished uploading by 11/14/09