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Love Knows No Bounds

Hearing Leigh and Dave tell the story of how they started dating is something everyone should experience. Watching the redhead re-enact how she strolled right up to the shy guy that she was eyeing her during their NOAA Corps Officer training three years ago and introduced herself while Dave stands there blushing is both sweet …

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Confession time: We knew when we did their Christmas session that Bryce was planning on proposing to Cristal. We’d talked about rings and how he was going to propose and had egged him on for months. Just before Christmas he finally proposed and we all squealed with glee – or at least I did… Patrick …

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No Excuses

When I was a child working out was fun and easy for me. From the age of five, I spent every waking moment either at the pool practicing for a dive meet or at the gym training for a gymnastics competition. When I got a little older all my time was spent on the water …

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Dancing in the Moonlight (Britne...

We’re not quite old enough to remember when King Harvest’s “Dancing in the Moonlight” was on the Billboard charts, but we’ve heard it played enough times as weddings that we know the song by heart. While we were editing Britney and John’s wedding pictures we couldn’t get the song out of our head. Between Saturday’s …

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Shedding new light

Congrats to our engagement session winners, Noelle & Patrick! This time around, we wanted to throw ourselves into a different type of lighting scenario that has proven to be somewhat difficult and also time consuming. We’re always pushing ourselves to become better photographers but also better problem solvers. Photography for me isn’t always about controlling the …

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Like Bedtime Will Never Happen

When I was a kid I always thought that grown-ups had it all figured out. I just KNEW that when I hit my 20′s I would be just like Madonna circa 1983. I’d have leg-warmers and black bangle bracelets and I would ALWAYS be getting into the groove. Well, fortunately I didn’t live quite up …

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Shooting with Friends (Lauren & ...

When we’re not shooting for ourselves we like to shoot with our friends. Here’s a wedding that I (Holly) shot recently with my friend, Amanda Suanne. We had a great time road-tripping it together and shooting in the rain. Fortunately I’d packed my ever-useful black Patagonia rain coat and mini-umbrella. Lauren and Phillip were a …

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Tromping around with Amy

As promised, here are more photos from our session with our sweet friend Amy Little! She’s a fellow photographer and friend that we love hanging out with and going on adventures with. Bryce is working on her new website, soon to be unveiled. While he was up to his eyeballs in code, we left him …

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Progress, not perfection

Most days it seems like time is my mortal enemy. No matter how late the sun sets, there just isn’t enough daylight to get everything done. While my to-do list keeps growing, my mental status gets a little more… questionable. Now that I’ve kicked the working-all-night habit, I’ve started a new one – getting up …

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An interesting composite!

A couple of years ago, I stumbled across Zack Arias’ composite blog post which inspired me real hard. At the time, I wasn’t pulling in much work and I was still in the process of understanding Strobist type photography. A few years later and a brain filled with technobabble, we were given the opportunity to photograph …