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{Michaela + Steve} Wedding; Hollinshead Park Barn Bend, Oregon

Michaela + Steve love everything music; Steve is the biz and brought the entire theme to their recent Hollinshead Park wedding.  This Seattle, Wa couple enjoyed Bend, Oregon so much, they decided that the barn was the perfect location for their wedding.  The entire focus was how guests were invited ‘backstage’ for their wedding and details such as: backstage passes, VIP bouncer guarding the door, red carpets, starred dressing rooms, concert trunks and music memorabilia was abound!  Vibrant red permeated through everything, even the brides tall patent leather red shoes.

Michaela + Steve, thanks so much for choosing us to share your wedding day!  It was a fun-filled event with international guests even coming from Australia and Germany (where the bride grew up and has family).  Congrats to you both!

All the best,

B + W

{Artist Series}

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One of the favorites of the day with our {artist series} textures.

The 2nd favorite of the day…your shoes flying were amazing!!

 

{Originals}

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Girls getting ready in what looked like 1950s theater style mirrors and lights!

Heirloom jewelry and garter goodies with umbrellas flown in directly from Asia.

Concert poster as a guestbook sign in so cute!  We were privileged to make the cut in the credits too!

LOVE!

Steve’s son was the bouncer to the ‘backstage’ entrance.

LOVE!

Monica & Todd's Spring Engagment Photo Shoot At Drake Park In Central Oregon

I faintly remembered them saying we’d meet over underneath the arbor by Mirror Pond Gallery.  It’s funny how you can miss a really cool spot that you’ve walked a hundred times, but when I slowly looked around the area I’d parked next to, something drew me to an area I’ve never paid much attention to.  I saw this small arbor on the other side of the Mirror Pond Gallery and thought “wow, what a cool place to shoot.”  So I get out my camera, check some angles and I begin to think to myself, “if this was so close to where I’ve walked so many times before, imagine what I can find if I were to get lost!”

Monica and Todd come walking up a few moments after my revelation and began to tell me that it was under this cool new arbor, I thought only I knew about, they got engaged.  So begins the perfect place to start an engagement shoot on a wild and windy day in Bend, Oregon.  As some of you know, when two people are in love, their eyes are a complete give away.  Wendy calls it the, “look” and as a photographer, a persons eyes are EVERYTHING to an image.  Looking at how Monica and Todd gazed at each other was more than enough to convince me that they not only have a deep caring for each other but a mutual respect that will bond them forever.

So, here’s to  Monica and Todd, may your eye’s always reflect the love in your hearts!

Miles Of Fun As MLK Service Day Kicks Off For Volunteer Connect

Man, yesterday was stressful.  My wife says I’m sensitive but when I was going over to the vet to pickup Miles from having his “lumpotomy”, (he gets this non-life threatening tumor growing on his side and when it gets to grapefruit size it’s time to lighten the load for him), I was really, really happy to see he was wanting to get out of the cage!

We’ve had our two dogs Miles and Dizzy for 12 of their 13 years now and XC skied, mtn biked, ran and played literally 7 days a week with them.  So yea, I was stressed I’d loose my terror of a lab that has done everything from destroy a new 4 month old couch, to eating 2 full boxes of chocolate fudge Cliff Bars (remember Ben?), to endless counter robberies of steaks, Costco apple pies and anything else that resembled food.

Between dropping Miles off and picking him up, the one redeeming event that allowed me to have a semi-productive day and not let worrying about my dog fill all thoughts was volunteering to shoot some images for the Volunteer Connect projects happening around Bend, Oregon during Martin Luther King Day.  Helping out the community, seeing old friends and laughing with others took my mind off my furry friend. Cheers to all those hard working volunteers!

In the end, both my dogs lay next to me while I write this and I can’t help but wonder when they’ll be ready for the next adventure….Miles, get your head out of the trash dude…..yea, things really never change.

This is our Miles. He definitely has attitude and this shows it!

Paw’s R US

Not trying to play favorites, I needed to include Dizzy as well.

Friends With Flowers volunteers creating love for terminally ill patients in Central Oregon

Over at the Bethlehem Inn, volunteers fixing bikes for a good cause!

At the Bend Community Center volunteers work to create blankets for the homeless.

This young dude was a rock star, putting air into all the bike tires and doing bike maintenance!

The Best Wedding Images Of 2009 From Byron Roe Photography – Bend, OR

As Wendy and I leap into the new year we look forward to making new friends who are keen to our unique style of wedding photography, as well as keeping up with all our new wedding couple friends we made through out 2009.  Thank you all for having the utmost faith in our talents as photographers for our inaugural year.  It was a privileged to be part of each and every one of your special days!

Since everyone else is doing their “best of….” for 09, I thought we needed the best bride & groom images of 2009 as well!  So here are the coolest images, (in our opinion) from the weddings we shot though out the year.  I did the preliminary choosing without Wendy but I knew that it would be better to have lots of choices to pick from since they were destined to be debated once she looked at them!  One of the great things, (among many others) about wedding photography is that they’re always unique and never dull.  So sit back, relax and enjoy these images that were so inspiring for us to create.

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Business Portraits With Jeff Coffey Of StreamiT Media

My friend Jeff Coffey is a true visionary and his company StreamiT Media has been working frantically on an exciting project that will change how video content will be dealt with on the web.  Wanting to make sure he had his business portraits set when INC.com calls him up for a cover shot, Jeff and I spent one morning recently working together.  We always have a great time together in social or work settings and this was no different.

I’ve always had an interest in fashion/interior design/architecture, (maybe it’s my Italian roots showing through) and even though I never went to school for it or worked in the industry, I’m seeing that looking at all those GQ, Elle Decor, etc. magazines when I was younger wasn’t a waste of time as it really helps me to envision lots of options during a photoshoot and in this case allowed me to manipulate his wardrobe choices to get the results you see below.   Please take a look at their website for more information:  StreamiT Media

Max King Of Bend, Oregon Wins XTERRA Trail Run Worlds 2009

Back when we had an autumn in Bend, Oregon this year, I got the chance to go out with Max King for a photoshoot.  With more evergreens than deciduous trees in Central Oregon you have to know where to go for some color so I took him up to a very unusual spot that has a very dense but small area of aspens surrounded by green for miles.  Even though the colors were amazing the temperature was in the 40′s so my hat goes off to Max who not only stuck it out during the photoshoot but had a great attitude as well.  Max looks in top form as he just claimed his second title as XTERRA trail running world champion about a week ago in Ka’a'awa, Oahu-Hawaii.  About a month ago he won the USA Track and Field National Trail Marathon (six days after finishing 18th at the New York City Marathon).  Congrats Max!