Allison and Brandon's Wedding

I had the pleasure of attending Allison and Brandon's wedding about a month ago. Although I wasn't the "official" photographer, there were quite a few of us roaming around and I got some fun shots from across the pond at Aspen Hall at Shevlin Park here in Bend. Congrats you two! Here are some of the photos:

Emily & Tom

Here are some of the images from Tom and Emily's wedding out at Crooked River Ranch. A nice contrast from the downpour the day before we had a beautiful, bright sunny day.

Back from Montana

We made it! What an amazing trip! Start out with a wedding in Montana, then move on to 4 days in Grand Teton and Yellowstone Parks. Its sad that you have to move away to spend more than a day in Yellowstone or Teton. There was so much to see and so little time. I did however continue my photo of the day and so far have taken one every day. I'm not sure exactly how I'm going to post them on here; most likely I will start at the beginning and do one big monstrous post! :)

In the meantime, I'm working away on a couple of weddings from before my little break, and playing around town with Drew and Allison, our friends from the East (Boston that is). They've doen the MT/WY adventure with us, now they're adventuring around Bend before they head to Crater Lake, the Coast, and yes, sadly they do eventually have to go home!

Sorry no photos, trying to make this quick so I can finish up the rest of my real work! Will post them by next week.

Big Announcement!

For one month, I'm committing to take one photo per day and post it on my blog. Its something I did when I worked full time in a very uncreative profession to boost my creativity. Its great when you are feeling down in the dumps to do something creative. Something about doing an artistic and very imaginative thing just soothes and calms the soul - no matter how un-artistic you may think you are, just doing it can be good practice for the other side of your brain. You don't have to show anybody, just do it for yourself.

Today's shot is me, at my computer working (see not very creative, but I'm on a tight deadline for a few projects!) :) And yes, this is how much I love my job, I look like this ALL the time!


There is one minor kink with my plans... I leave for a week long vacation on Friday. SO I will be posting photos of the day in a lump whenever I can get to a computer!

This is my challenge to you. It doesn't have to be every day, but once a week, go out and take a photo, draw a sketch, learn to play the guitar. Whatever you want to try out! Bump up that creative side that so many of us have beaten down by jobs where you can't be creative! If you want, email me and I'll put them up here. Or start your own fun free creative blog!

A couple more from PT

Did I mention this was possibly the most beautiful weekend I've ever seen in Port Townsend?! I've never actually seen Mt. Baker before (or at least not that I remember!) but look at this...

The lighthouse at Fort Worden State Park, where Jessie and her friend Robbie had their graduation party yesterday.

This one is from Saturday night. The moon was huge and bright, and this sail boat sitting in the water outside our balcony beckoned at 2am!


I didn't get a lot of sleep this weekend, but I had a TON of fun! It was good to see family and of course great to visit PT again! I have exciting news coming later this week, stay tuned!