Have your family portrait created at one of our favorite locations, Larrabee State Park or Whatcom Falls Park, and support the Bellingham Food Bank at the same time. The weekend of September 17 and 18 we’re offering a special price of only $100 for the session (half our regular price) and we’ll donate the entire session fee to the Bellingham Food Bank to support their “milk money” program. Continue Reading »
September and October are prime months for high school senior portraits. Yearbook deadlines are coming up, so if you know a senior at any of Whatcom County’s high schools have them give me a call (360-671-6851) to arrange their senior portrait session. Continue Reading »
Light is the stuff from which pictures are made. Light has color. Light has shape. Light brings the world to life.
So often a snapshooter is concerned only about capturing a fleeting moment. The subject is everything. There’s certainly a lot of value in catching the crack of bat against baseball, the warm embrace of grandmother and grandson, or your triathlete husband crossing the finish line. Those are memories to cherish and your photos help preserve them whether the lighting adds to or detracts from the subject. Continue Reading »
What looks like an oak, has acorns like an oak, but isn’t an oak? That would be tanoak, Lithocarpus densiflorus, a west coast native. This evergreen tree is also known as tanbark-oak. It has flowers like a chestnut but forms acorns rather than having its nuts enclosed by a spiny bur. Both Lithocarpus and Quercus are in the Beech family, the Fagaceae. Continue Reading »
One of the things that sets me apart as a photographer is having earned my Certified Professional Photographer designation. Certification means that I passed a comprehensive written examination on the technical aspects of photography and also passed an exacting portfolio review. I am one of only four Certified Professional Photographers in Whatcom County. For more information on the certification program visit the Professional Photographic Certification Commission website. Continue Reading »
This was a great year for the photography classes I taught at several locations around Washington and Oregon. In March students in Salem, Oregon braved rain in the pocket camera class at Historic Deepwood Estate. In May we spent a day at the Burke Museum and University of Washington Medicinal Herb Garden. June found me teaching a 3-day digital SLR photography at the Siskiyou Field Institute near Selma, Oregon as well as leading a one-day field workshop at the Oregon Native Plant Society annual meeting southeast of John Day. I led a similar session outside Winthrop for the Washington Native Plant Society, then taught a 3-day pocket camera class for North Cascades Institute. Continue Reading »