Category: Picture This

In June, Jenni and I had the privilege of photographing two families. My coworker’s family of girls have a wonderful home with a backyard that led into an open field. I was inspired by a different coworker’s photography work to use a reflector more and got great results using the sun that day.

The second family, or I should say families, was Jenni’s cousins in the Longview area. We did a short shoot of the youngest cousin of six months, then a mix of group and individual cousin shots. Some of the best came when we let them play outside. Whew! That was a crazy day with seven little ones (including our two) zooming around.

Some things are a constant: like new clothes from my mom for Chinese New Year. I’m sure my mom has a blast now that she gets to buy girl clothes instead of boy clothes when my brother and I were kids. My resident art director and wife got everyone dressed up to show my mom how great the new dresses look on our daughters.

See our recent family portraits »

Kadie and Vi when they were about 5 months old and sitting in laundry.

Jenni and I had the honor and joy of photographing Tim and Trina’s wedding in September. Trina is a friend from dance who blessed us by DJing our wedding, so we were happy to turn around and be part of her and Tim’s celebration. It was a two-day event and their close friends and family made it memorable. That and the fantastic food at the reception.

A coworker of mine asked me to be a volunteer photographer for Sustainable Northwest. They hosted a party at the Crystal Ballroom for their 15th anniversary.

I was already going to be in downtown that afternoon to rent a few lenses for Tim and Trina’s wedding, so I figured it couldn’t hurt to get my photography mode a head start for the weekend.

Jennilyn has been taking impromptu photos of Kadie and Violet and I think they’re adorable and sweet. Be sure to check out our recent gallery of our girls from this month. Many of the portraits are photographed by Jenni, but I doubt you’ll notice the difference between mine’s and her’s. She’s become quite the photographer.

After launching a web site update at work today, I took advantage of the weather and we trekked out to Cannon Beach to watch an Oregon coast sunset—which, of course consists of color-changing clouds in the horizon.

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Kadie didn’t like ice cream at first, which we thought was unusual. Perhaps it was too cold and it numbed her taste buds. But after having frozen yogurt cone at a Sweet Tomato restaurant, she now sucks the ice cream from the cone with a long session of slurps.

For now, we’re laughing at the mess she makes.

See photos of Kadie enjoying her ice cream cone »