Archive for the 'Locations' Category

Location Photography Travel Special: Orange County, California

Janet will be available to photograph your family, pregnant belly, or baby in Orange County, California July 17th, 19th and 20th . One hour sessions with unlimited exposures are $450. Add $200 per additional hour. Standard travel special rules apply, and there are still 2 slots available. Hope to see you there.

Next Travel Special: Cape Meares, Oregon

Our next travel special is coming up soon. Janet will be in Cape Meares, Oregon June 27th-30th. Take advantage of this beautiful location and have a fun filled session with Janet!

Jocelyn at the Seattle Central Library

Beautiful woman laughing

In front of the Yellow Escalators

Jocelyn is Engaged! Just because Clive is thousands of miles away didn’t stop Jocelyn from having an engagement session. I can’t wait to meet the mystery man, and share with him how lucky he is. Jocelyn, thanks for choosing me. I had a ball working with you. Now you know first hand why it’s easy to love my job.

For a fun urban location, we chose the Seattle Central Library, which was the building voted #108 on the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) list of Americans’ 150 favorite structures in the U.S. It provides a stunning setting, both inside and out!





Jocelyn inside the Seattle Central Library


In the spotlight

Lauren and Andy at the Pike Place Market: Urban Engagement Session

Put couple-in-love into playful mood, add great teamwork with photographer, get memorable stories to tell and photos to share. Thanks Lauren and Andy, for a fabulous few hours. Can’t wait to see you soon for session #2, your wedding!


Travel portrait special: Anchorage, Alaska

Hurry! Janet will be in Anchorage, Alaska doing Alaska location portraits through June 7th! For information on how travel specials work, see our former post here.

Even getting here is beautiful

You in your kyak here

Kentucky Portraits — Indulging in the Race Track or Rolling in Bluegrass

Join me for one or two of the final Kentucky portraits.
$450 each for one hour including unlimited exposures and a private website.

Still available on Friday May 16th

10AM - Overlooking the rolling glow-green hills surrounding Louisville.

5PM- An Hour at the Churchill Downs. Overlooking the track from a private box, surrounded by manicured grounds or the stables.

Book today for a sure bet!

Happiness is a Job That Gets Better Each Day.

Want to love your job? Photograph a teenager. Just when you thought you were charmed, humored, humbled more than possible, the next teenager comes along to raise the bar.

Sure, I love babies. Heart-melting, sweet, chubby adorable faces that change expressions each second. Toddlers and preschoolers have dress-up and Big messes, my jokes are hysterical even when the studio team rolls their eyes. Grade schoolers charmingly tell me how to operate the camera, serve the beverages, encourage their pet to smile, accurately. Middle schoolers are most brilliant of all ages. I get to simply take their lead on these energetic sessions. No matter how much we plan, we detour down the path taken at this fleeting moment.

Teenagers are often excited to help plan & design their own photo session. Remarkably different from the year before, I capture the theme unfolding, sometimes leading the action, more often following. From this teen-time on, I know my most important collaborator is no longer the parent designer of yesteryear, but the unfolding teenager now before the camera. With the design work done, let’s play!

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Jane was a gem to work with. Enthusiastic and positive in mind, determined to ignore the cold in body.

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Test: How old is Jane? She celebrates her Bat Mitzvah this weekend.

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Answer: 20 of course!

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Or 26?

Congratulations on your Bat Mitzvah, Jane. Looking forward to photographing you and your family at Temple Beth Am tomorrow. And thank you for the great downtown Ballard session! Ballard looks good on you.