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mo & ryan

Beautiful light at the Bybee-Howell House on Sauvie Island.  Also, true story, some of these pictures were made while playing fetch with a very persistent stray Labrador retriever who would not take no for an answer.

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tracey & kevin

The personalities of Tracey and Kevin were ALL over their wedding.  Funny, joyful, smirky, and kind, with an Ethiopian flair, their family and friends surrounded and participated in their celebration.   Our itinerary was the Benson Hotel, Hotel Deluxe (where they were first engaged), Old Laurelhurst Church (where the wedding-bration happened), and then to the Melody Ballroom for dancing and eating and eating and eating…  Did I mention the Ethiopian food spread was ridiculously tasty?  A huge thank you, hi5, and a tasty beer goes to Ryan Flood of FS Weddings for second shooting with me and creating such solid images.  Also, it was fantastic working with Molly and Kelsey from Soiree.  Enjoy the photographs.
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Noël - Such beautiful photos!! Looks like everyone had a wonderful time! Best wishes on many happy years together.

lucas

This post is brought to you by the Letter “W.”  After graduating from Woodrow Wilson High School in a month, Lucas is off to Western Washington U next fall.  I’m hoping he makes Wallpaper out of these pictures and pastes them to the Walls of his dormroom.  Well, that would be Weird…

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Ryan - Wow.

aithan shapira, TEDx conference

I had the privilege of photographing TEDx Portland this year, held at the Gerding Theater at the Armory.  I’m not an event photographer but I love the TED talks and saw it as an opportunity to challenge myself in new ways that I’m not used to in weddings & portraits.  My main purpose was to be photographing the stage, and backstage areas during the event but I really wanted to make a few editorial-style portraits along the way.  If any of you have been to an event as organized and tightly run as TEDx, you probably know that I was dreaming.

One of my favorite talks was by Aithan Shapira who does incredible work (times a billion), and his work is not surprisingly world-renown.  His talk was called “Contemporary Cubism,” challenging artists to look at subjects from multiple perspectives, to value the beauty in detail and to not be afraid to gather those details in different ways.  When Aithan finished his talk, he very kindly agreed to let me make a quick portrait.  It took one minute in a dimly lit backstage hallway, but I hope it honors the discussion.

More pictures will be coming and you can check back with the TEDx PDX website for when the videos of the talks drop online.tedx portland portrait aithan shapira editorial

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