It’s funny how online social networking sites have changed the world.  We “met” Gerald and Airika last year through Twitter and caught up in person at a photography conference.  They are the leaders of the Seattle Pictage User Group and we had been talking about us coming out to speak to their group since last fall.  We finally made it out on a little personal/business trip last week and thank you so much to the Seattle PUG for having us!  You guys were such a great group!  To Gerald and Airika – thank you so much for inviting us into your home and showing us around Seattle!  We had such a wonderful time and really enjoyed getting to know you guys better!

While were were in town, we did a few images for their new website and branding that will be launching soon.  These guys are as cute, genuine, and warm as they appear in pictures! — probably even more so!  Hope you enjoy them!

Thought this was too funny not to share. :0)  Seven doesn’t normally attend our photo sessions and from the look on his face, I’m thinking he prefers to stay home!

If you look at the iPhone 4 blog post below, you’ll see an image of Sean and his friend and their babies at the end of that post.  That friend is Jesse and that image is especially special because pictures of Sean and Jesse have been being taken since they were 8 and 9 years old.  We’re so happy to still have Jesse as a friend all these years later, to have added his wonderful wife Jessica to the mix, and now to be raising our kids at the same time. :0)  I’d like to introduce you to Baby Violet: born July 11, 2010 and featured here at 7 days old.  I don’t often photograph babies, and never before one this small, so it was an interesting experience!  We had fun trying to mould the tiny little thing and really, it’s hard to mess up when you’ve got such a good looking family to work with!  Still, I have a special appreciation for baby photographers and for those baby photographers reading this blog post, I hope you’ll indulge my attempt at newborn photography! ;0) Enjoy!

Violet’s personal favorite. :0)

We had the pleasure to teaching a promising young photographer a couple of weekends ago and Marcia and Cade were our gracious and gorgeous models for the shooting portion!  Thank you guys so much!  You were great! :0)  Here are a few of the resulting images – hope you enjoy them!