Ella {6 Months}. Part II

Here are some more pictures of Little Ella. I had fun making this little collage this morning.

Here are just a few more fun ones. Brandon and Michelle came up with some great stuff for captions on the previous post. If anybody else wants to join in and come up with some for this one or any from Part I (scroll down to view), I’ll do a separate post with the pictures and captions so everybody can have a good laugh.



Hope everybody is having a happy Saturday. We are going to spend some quality time with siblings today and try to get Bry to recover from a cold. I guess our wedding season can officially start next weekend since we’ll be traveling to Naomi and Nathaniel’s wedding on Friday and Daniel and Stacy’s on Saturday! We can’t wait!
If you want to see pictures from our First Annual Mardi Gras Ball, check out Bryan’s facebook profile. It might be worth it because he might be wearing a glitter gold hat (love you Bry). You might have to add him as a friend to see them, but I promise he won’t reject you .
With Love,
Leah

Ella {6 months}. Part I

Remember this teeny little baby girl, all bundled up?….

Well look at her now! Here is a preview from her six month pictures. And Here and Here you can find pictures of what she looked like as a newborn.

She was really having fun with the flower props.


She was so laid back the whole time and just gave us this cute little half grin.

Look at those amazing curls!

And she still has those pretty dark eyes. She’s giving Bryan the look that says, “I know you’re all dancing around and making funny noises at me, but I’m not sure why.”

She could stand up all by herself when propped up against the wall…

…but preferred to sit and play with her feet. Can you blame her?
 
We’re so glad Ella has been in the world for 6 whole months and as always, we’re honored to get to document the milestones in her life.
I’ll post more of her soon.
Leah
p.s. What do you think is running through her head in the very last picture? She looks pretty thoughtful. If anybody comes up with some captions for any of these, I’ll include them in the next post.

A close call and a new blog header!

Last month when we ran the poll on which blog header should be featured for the month of February (Click here to see the original poll), Erin and Justin’s photo won, but Chris and Teresa’s came in a close second so we decided to throw it up on the blog for the next month!

Coming up soon we’ve got pictures from a photo shoot with baby Ella this last weekend!  Thanks so much for following along and I hope you’re having a wonderful day!

And because blog posts are better with a picture, here’s a picture of some batteries we just got in.  We’re doing a lot of gearing up for the upcoming wedding season, so we just got new batteries to replace last seasons.  I can’t believe how powerful and quickly these batteries work in our flashes which means that we can capture even more wonderful moments!

Bryan

Peter.[Senior] (The mystery revealed!)

Okay, so if you haven’t read the last post the above title is not going to make any sense, so please scroll down and give it a read before you accuse me of being overly dramatic (which I probably am:)).

When I asked Peter what he was looking for from his senior portraits, he told me that he had always been intrigued by the executive portrait. We started off indoors beside the fireplace, a wonderful place for a traditional executive portrait. I was thankful for the large windows letting in natural light so I didn’t even have to use any lighting equipment. We completely tore his parents living room apart, so we could get everything just how we liked it. Tearing rooms apart and moving large pieces of other people’s furniture is something that took me some time to get comfortable with as a photographer, but now it’s pretty much like, if it’s not bolted down, then lets get it out of the way!

Towards the end Peter and I went outside to take advantage of the morning light. I took some ones I really like with him in a field, but I haven’t got around to editing those yet, but maybe I’ll throw some up later.

For the majority of his portraits Peter maintained a very professional and executive look which he pulled off quite well as you can see. But in this picture he’s got a little smirk going on, which I like.

Peter just like his twin brother David, was ultra polite and opened all the doors for me everywhere we went. One thing I really appreciated about both Peter and David is that they had great creative ideas for their senior portraits, but were also great with listening to my ideas, so we were able to work together for the final result. Thanks for the great time Peter and the great ideas as well!

Bryan

Peter. [Senior] A Very Small Preview…

Leah and I are just about to start a movie on a lovely Saturday evening, but I was so excited about Peter’s senior photos that I wanted to get a little preview up for everyone. I like this for a preview because it leaves things a little mysterious…

I had such a great time with Peter. He and David are twin brothers and both incredibly smart and fun guys (click here for a preview of David’s pictures). I’ll tell more about Peter’s session and get up some more pictures, but for now here’s one of my favorites. Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend and I’m off to watch a movie with my wonderful wife!

Bryan

They’re Here!

They’re here! Leah and I were so excited yesterday when the package with our first round of postcards arrived!  We immediately went out into Newberg and started giving them out at local businesses, where you can pick them up for free.

Many of you might not know that much of Leah and I’s relationship was spent in different states and even countries, so we are very fond of writing letters and postcards (and have a box full of them from when we were dating!). We hope that maybe these postcards will be an encouragement to write to one another, as we are so excited anytime we get a real letter or postcard from someone. Hope everyone’s having a beautiful Friday today!

Bryan

David. [Senior]

After two cancellations due to rain I finally got to take pictures of David and Peter, two twin brothers. I was getting a bit concerned that the weather wasn’t going to let up soon enough for us to do them outside, but thankfully early yesterday morning the skies cleared up.

Today I’ll be posting some of David’s and soon I’ll put some up of Peter. I so enjoyed my time with each of them, and they were both so much fun! They both had a lot of great ideas for their pictures and put a lot of thought into what they wanted which I really appreciate!

David loves the outdoors so we went for a walk through the forest for his session. The forest had some incredible trees, and the light was perfect with the slight cloud cover.

Both the tree that David is sitting on and the tree behind him had unique and awesome shapes.

On the other side of the forested area we found a bit of a clearing so we did some shots out in the open.

We used the rocks on the edge of this small pond as a nice place for David to sit.

We had to do a few classic shots at the gazebo.

As you can tell David was very natural in front of the camera. David was also super polite and everywhere we went he would open the door for me. I just had a great time hanging out with David and capturing his senior portraits. Thanks for the great time David!  Stay tuned for more portraits from David’s twin brother Peter!

Bryan

postcard. [Free] #1

One of my favorite things about Newberg is the sense of community that it has. I love walking downtown, which I do almost every day , and seeing people that I know. I love having conversations that are completely unplanned. It makes me feel like we are all here together and a part of this town. I don’t think too many towns have this type of community any more.

Leah and I really hope that our business can be a positive presence in the community. As we were thinking about what we could do to encourage a sense of pride in the things that make Newberg unique, we thought about giving away free postcards. They will feature local photographs, that we will leave around in local coffee shops and businesses for everyone to enjoy. We really enjoyed the free post cards in certain cities in Europe or other places like Hood River, so now we will have our very own in Newberg.

Let us know what you would like to see featured on the next installment, and look for these around town in about two weeks.

Bryan

Some Handmade Goodness

Happy Friday everybody. Unfortunately the senior sessions keep getting rained out, so I’m on here sharing random Friday thoughts instead.

hmmm…

Look what I just found on Etsy:

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21584327&ref=em

cute huh? it doesn’t fit over my camera, so I can’t buy it, but I still enjoyed looking at it.

Speaking of Etsy, in the next couple of weeks I will be showing you an online store for a business that my mom, sister, and I are starting up as a way for refugee women to support themselves. More info coming soon! In the meantime, here is a little something that Bryan made for it.

Winter has been fun but…….

(Sorry I always do this, this is Bryan posting under Leah’s name)  Every time it rains I’m reminded of how much I love looking out at a storm from somewhere warm and indoors. We had about a week of beautiful weather here which almost convinced me spring was on its way, but now winter has returned and both today and yesterday it has pretty much been raining non-stop. So I’ve been staked indoors by the windows watching the storm happen. I really don’t mind the rain at all, but it makes things a little tricky for a photographer who likes to use natural light and shoot outside.

I’m a little bummed because due to the weather my senior session for yesterday was canceled and moved to tomorrow, and I’m really hoping that it won’t be raining then. All of this rain got me thinking about spring and how nice those warm days are. So I took a stroll through some pictures I took this last spring and landed on this one as I think it kind of captures spring and helps get me excited for the beautiful days that are headed our way. It’s going to be an incredible spring and summer as well, we’ve got so many weddings and portrait sessions that we can’t wait to shoot!

Bryan