Inessential Stuff

I thought I might put up a few images from the last month or so.  I have been so busy with weddings, and other photoshoots, that I haven’t had time to keep things updated.  This will give you a little taste.

Above you see Rachel.  We did her portraits at the skate park under the freeway just south of downtown.  Lots of graffiti.  Lots of skateboarders.  Lots of good places for pictures.  I plan to shoot there again.  I really liked the contrast of the graffiti with Rachel, who appears so innocent and wholesome.

To the side you’ll seeKatrina.  She wanted something urban.  She also likes pink.  So we shot in the Riverfront Parking Garage.

Then below is a shot from an engagement session with Shayley and Ryne.  They wanted their pictures at Bowl and Pitcher.  We shot there for quite a while, partly because I wanted to wait until it started to get dark to try some off-camera lighting with a brand new battery pack.

They were good sports, and we ended up with some fun stuff.  I like this photo mostly because of the light and the architecture of the bridge, but it also captures some of playfulness between Shayley and Ryne.

The common thread in all these pictures (besides attractive models)?  Off-camera lighting.  I’m really loving it.  Expect to see more, and hopefully fairly soon.

Well, you can tell it’s wedding season by the infrequency of my posts here.  Sorry about that.  I plan on a few more posts in the next few days, but I also have 3 weddings in the next 8 days, so we’ll see.

Anyway, I did manage to get a Trash the Dress shoot in with Kayla and Lucas, whose wedding was just a few weeks ago.   We decided on a farm shoot, plus a bit down at Liberty Lake.

We scheduled it for last Monday.  Locals will tell you that on last Monday, one of the most spectacular storms rolled into the Spokane area, a storm of biblical proportions.  Okay, I exaggerate, but only slightly.  5500 homes lost power.  The dust in the air (and smoke from fires) made the air quality the worst that day than it had been in over three years.  The rain that fell that night (starting while we were at the lake) was the first in six weeks, the 6th longest span Spokane has gone without rain.  It had been 104 on Sunday.  On Wednesday, it was 68.  So yeah, it was a big storm.

The benefits?  Some cool dress-blow-in-the-wind shots, beautiful undulating grass and reeds, and a sense of drama.  The disadvantages?  Crashing light-stands, dust in the eyes, ant hills (okay, the ant hills would have been there either way), and, at the lake, tree limbs floating past the bride and groom.

Actually, things were so crazy at the lake, that I didn’t get the kind of shots I wanted.  I have one on this page so you can see how neat the reeds looked (and how gorgeous Kayla, and handsome Lucas, looked);  but the gallery includes shots just from the farm location.