January 2012

Nick & Kelsey’s Wedding Crest Illustration

An extremely cool wedding illustration by Gaelan Kelly

January 28, 2012 Engagements
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What to do when you and your fiance have off-the-hook personalities and want to show the world what an awesome match you are together? Exactly! You have Gaelan Kelly illustrate the two of you into your very own wedding crest. Gaelan is an über-talented artist that has a knack for nailing the details that visually [...]

Nick & Kelsey, Pt 2

Continuation session with a vintage Beech aircraft

January 25, 2012 Engagements
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A few days after their first engagement mini-session in Seattle, we all met up at the Auburn Airport where Nick and Kelsey are becoming flight instructors to finish. Airplanes and airports are a big part of these pilot’s day-to-day so it’s only fitting to include it in their shots. Even better, we had access to [...]

Nick & Kelsey, Pt 1

Pike Place Market Engagements

January 25, 2012 Engagements
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Engagement sessions should be more than a collection of poses and a pleasant background. When we go out to photograph a couple prior to their wedding, we use this opportunity to capture their personalities and strong emotional connection. If possible, we integrate locations that are important and meaningful which lends to more relaxed and natural [...]

Sara & Kevin

Bell Harbor rooftop ceremony & Maritime Event Center reception

January 21, 2012 Weddings
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It was so great to be a part of Sara and Kevin’s summer wedding on the waterfront in Seattle, My wife and I have been friends with Sara’s mother for many years and I’ve done family photography for them previously. It was great to be Sara’s photographer and get to know her and fiancé Kevin [...]

Affinity on the Adoramapix blog

Member of the Week for January

January 19, 2012 News
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It’s an honor to be featured on the newly minted blog on the Adoramapix website. If you are unfamiliar, Adorama is one of the largest camera equipment vendors in the world. When we visit NYC, we try to make it over there to see their store in person. In fact, the last time we did [...]

Dan & Marni

Newborn baby addition

January 19, 2012 Family
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What started as wedding coverage for their August 2010 wedding is now becoming family portraiture with their new arrival and we couldn’t be more excited to see their family grow!

Mackenna & Patrick

Olympic Sculpture Garden Engagements

January 17, 2012 Engagements
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To prepare for their upcoming Wild Rose wedding, we spent some time with the camera at the Olympic Sculpture park. These engagement sessions are an invaluable time to loosen up and become more comfortable being photographed, to talk more about the upcoming wedding and the people that will be involved and just getting to know [...]

Allison & Ryan

Sanders Mansion Wedding

January 13, 2012 Weddings
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Sanders Mansion, in Auburn, WA, is a charming wedding venue replete with photography opportunities such as the large craftsman mansion itself, a small pond with dock and a ceremony location overlooking an expansive field. We had the opportunity to photograph Allison and Ryan sharing vows and a kiss along with many of their friends and [...]

Seattle Bride Resource Guide

We're on the cover!

January 12, 2012 News
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We just received news that our images are being used throughout the 2012 Seattle Bride Resource Guide including two on the cover. Front and center on the cover is a kissing photo from Aaron and Morag’s Port Gamble wedding. To the bottom-right is a cake photo from Stacy and Keith’s Big Picture theater wedding. We [...]

Megan and Will’s new baby

Baby Nicola

January 12, 2012 Family
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While I’ve confined this blog to detailing weddings and engagements, I thought I should start to include another amazing facet of my job: families. Many of them come straight out of the weddings we photographed years prior and when you think about it, it’s a natural evolution in our working relationship. It was just about [...]