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A Bend Family Fall Portrait with Kelsi and Best Friend, Angus

A good friend, Kelsi, called me up recently in tears as her dog, and best friend, Angus has been having liver trouble and it didn’t look good.  She realized she didn’t have any really good photos of the two of them and wanted to know if we would do a family portrait.  With fall colors in full rage, we set out to take Angus on a brief hike and follow the Deschutes river by Meadow camp in Bend, Oregon.  Having two dogs of our own, Miles and Dizzy, we understand the connection between ourselves and our favorite pets (Idiosyncrasies and all).  I hope Angus is able to pull through – he’ll forever remind me of a gangly teenager, connected at the hip to his mother and always drooling   We love ya Kelsi – all the best to you and I hope these images bring some smiles as you walk by them in your home of the wonderful dog that is Angus.

United Way Advertising Campaign Photoshoot In Bend, Oregon

I recently had the opportunity to do some work with United Way Of Central Oregon for a new ad campaign they were working on.  My friend Jeff Coffey’s who runs a cool streaming multimedia business called StreamiT http://www.streamitmedia.com/ offered to let us do the photoshoot over at his studio.  So with the help of Mark Quon www.quondc.com who would be the art director on the project we began working with the  volunteers who would be modeling.  All the volunteers on this project have helped United Way in the past so this made it real fun for everyone.  Having friends with children always seems to help at some point and in this case Jeff was able to call his two daughters up to join the fun and I was also able to get my friend Tracy’s two daughters as well.  I was amazed at how the three families of girls automatically were able to “act” as though they had know each other for years and the photos really show this!  In the end, we got amazing images and had a blast doing it.  Oh, why is the background all white, (for the most part)?  We shot against a green screen that allows the graphic artist to choose the color of the background, (preferably white).  I’m not a big fan of this but hey, I don’t get the opportunity to make someone levitate often!

Laurel Brauns And Her Band the Sweet Harlots

Here are some images from a shoot I did last Saturday for a Bend, Oregon band called the Sweet Harlots.  We had a lot of fun conceptualizing on a look they could use for promotion and even though it was fairly cold out, the energy was flowing.  If your in Bend this January the 28th come check them out at McMenamins Old St. Francis School in the Father Luke’s room from 7 – 10 p.m.  Hey, it’s free!

Here’s what Chris Dahlen of Pitchforkmedia.com and Paste Magazine had to say about the Sweet Harlots most recent album, “Laurel Brauns can do the siren singer-songwriter thing, casting her sterling voice into songs about wide skies and maze-like hearts. She brings to bear all of her Celtic and indie influences on her haunting new album where cellos and dark finger-picked acoustic guitar all but surround you with the ghosts of the by-gone characters the songs speak of.”

You can also check out more band info, including samples of some songs at:  www.laurelbrauns.com

Holiday Card Portraits, Mt. Bachelor – Oregon

Now that all of our fine friends and family have received their holiday cards, we can finally reveal the candids from this shoot!  These holiday portraits were shot up at Mt. Bachelor at early October snow.  Our beloved dogs, Miles (Davis) and Dizzy (Gillespie) became the models for our annual holiday card and boy did they show off their stuff.  Below are some of the funny moments and the finals from the shoot.  Dizzy sure makes a perfect bride, doesn’t she?  Enjoy!

Our friends/family card ‘winner’ (shown above)

“STAY!”

How cute is that?  …this was the runner up.

Our Business Card Winner (shown above)

Autumn in Shevlin Park with Bob and Margaret Havard

Thank you Bob and Margaret for such a wonderful shoot! Shevlin Park in Bend, Oregon is in full bloom this autumn and it couldn’t be a more spectacular place for on location portraits. It was helpful to have two such joyful spirits to work and experiment with. It was great to catch up with you guys!

Bringing out Kelsi with soft light

In order to test out some new lighting equipment, we decided to take a friend – Kelsi Erkkila – out for some fun shooting. Thanks for being a great sport, Kelsi…these photos capture the soft, sexy side that we all love!  Our testing included varied light positions with umbrellas and other diffusers, and shooting tethered into our laptop.  And no, Kelsi doesn’t wear contacts, her eyes really are different colors like you see!