Hi, come in. This is where I share the full stories behind the sessions, and if you read enough of them, you'll start to notice something: a lot of the same names keep showing up. Engagements turn into weddings turn into maternity sessions turn into family photos with three kids and a dog. After fifteen years of this work, my favorite thing is that I rarely get to say goodbye to anyone. I just get to see them again in a new chapter. These are those chapters.
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Andreas & Louise | An Urban Engagement Session Through the Heart of Downtown Portland
Andreas and Louise wanted classic, urban, Portland — the city they've both come to love and call home. So we walked it. The waterfront with the Hawthorne Bridge stretching behind them. The public docks. Keller Fountain Park. The murals in the Park Blocks. The steps outside the Portland Art Museum. And somewhere along the way it became clear that these two have absolutely been taking dance classes — the spins, the dips, the easy way they moved together — because they were good. July cannot come fast enough.
Allie & Ryan | An Engagement Session at Hoyt Arboretum in Portland, Oregon
Allie and Ryan brought their dogs to their Hoyt Arboretum engagement session — a Jack Russell mix and a yellow Lab, both wearing matching plaid bowties, both completely certain the session was for them. They weren't wrong. The arboretum's redwood grove, forest trails, and fall ferns gave us some of my favorite frames from this location, and these two were absolutely natural in front of the camera.
Linh & Elliott | A Forest Engagement Session Outside of Boise, Idaho
Linh and Elliott brought Remy — their golden retriever — to their engagement session in the forest outside Boise, and honestly, Remy nearly stole the whole thing. Nearly. These two are the kind of couple who are completely comfortable being adored by a camera, and the ponderosa pines gave us a moody, beautiful backdrop to work with. This was before Vietnam. Before the wedding of a lifetime. But first, the forest.
Gothic Arches and Golden Light: Layla & Eric Engagement Session at Cathedral Park Portland
Cathedral Park sits beneath the St. Johns Bridge in North Portland, and if you've never been, the Gothic concrete arches that line the riverbank are unlike anything else in the city — dramatic, airy, and somehow both grand and intimate all at once. It was the perfect setting for Layla and Eric, who would go on to have one of my all-time favorite weddings the following year. Spoiler: it was stunning.
Dogs, Fall Color & Forever | Rachel & Dustin | Abrams Parl - Ridgefield, Washington
Two dogs in plaid bandanas, a ring that photographs like a dream on evergreen branches, and the most golden fall light Abrams Park in Ridgefield had to offer. Rachel and Dustin's engagement session was exactly the kind of afternoon I want to spend every October.
A Mount Rainier Sunrise Engagement Session | Noble Knob Trail, Washington
A pre-sunrise hike up Noble Knob, Mount Rainier filling the sky, a shoe swap from hiking boots to heels at the summit, and a dog named Rainey who was completely unbothered by all of it. Nichole and Ash's engagement session was exactly the kind of morning that reminds you why you set the alarm.
A Love Worth Celebrating | Finn & Jay's EnGAYgement Session | Cathedral Park, Portland
Finn and Jay coined their session the enGAYgement session and honestly it's the best thing I've heard all year. We met at Cathedral Park under the St. Johns Bridge for a relaxed portrait session before their wedding day — good light, great energy, and two people who are just really happy together. Cannot wait for the wedding.
Desert Canyon, Mountain Lake, and a Rainstorm | Andrea + Deion's Oregon Engagement
There are sessions that change things. Andrea and Deion's engagement session at Smith Rock was one of them. We drove out to Bend together, found a storm rolling in over the canyon, and ended the day standing in a lake in the rain making images I still cannot stop thinking about. My camera did not fully recover. The photos were worth it.
Nobody Puts Damien in a Corner | Shelby + Damien's Engagement at Marchesi Vineyards
I met Shelby at her sister Steffanie's wedding years ago, and somewhere between that day and this one we became chosen family. When it was time to photograph Shelby's own engagement session, there was nowhere else I wanted to be. We went to the vineyards, we went to the waterfront, and then we recreated the Dirty Dancing lift. Gender swapped. And yes, it worked.