Year: 2012

  • Tristan and a centipede at Golden Gardens Park. Family Photos – Seattle, WA

    Tristan and a centipede at Golden Gardens Park. Family Photos – Seattle, WA

    There is a saying: “You learn something new every day”. Recently, I photographed a boy who learned about a centipede. While looking at the photos my friend added: “looks like the parents learned something new too”! BTW, the centipede was released into a patch of grass and she walked away fast from the photo session.…

  • Dynamic Family photo session on Venice Beach

    Dynamic Family photo session on Venice Beach

    The most dynamic family photo session of mine, ever! On Venice Beach, CA with the wind in our hair, Nikon on continuous high speed mode (for the most part). Jasin Boland is a Hollywood motion picture stills photographer and Nikon Ambassador http://www.jasinboland.com/. I had the pleasure and honor to photograph Mr. Boland and his family…

  • Mother’s Day. Family Portraits – Seattle, WA

    Mother’s Day. Family Portraits – Seattle, WA

    On Mother’s Day time, I am posting a few images from recent family photo session with Jo and Rosa. Jo is a stellar Mother. She is kind, loving, patient, devoted, driven, hard working and beautiful. We made portraits on the beach near their home in West Seattle. Wearing leopard print clothes on the beach seemed…

  • When your work talks back to you….

    When your work talks back to you….

    When you work on an art piece, be it a poem, painting, or novel, when do you know you have something worth keeping, something that meets your artistic standards? For artists, this question is often hard to answer. My friend Scott, a musician, put it this way: “When you write piece of music and it…

  • A Triptych – Seattle Children Photography.

    A Triptych – Seattle Children Photography.

    Children move so fast and change their expressions continuously. That is, of course true during family photo sessions as well. Triptych is a fine way of gathering the best of a subject’s moods for active story telling. In these photos Irene was captured while she took a break from hot tub play time with other…

  • “Good Pictures” – Seattle, WA.

    “Good Pictures” – Seattle, WA.

    A few weeks ago I was contacted by The House Studios based in Seattle. They run a blog series which highlights different photographers and filmmakers that create “Good Pictures.” The concept behind Good Pictures is “to showcase those artists who produce good imagery and to bring back an appreciation for photos that are not only…