Evantide Photography

First of all, I can’t believe we’ve arrived in the month of September, yikes.  Summer is fading fast and I’m not ready:-).  I’m also excited because we tend to have mild beautiful weather in September and so far that’s held true in the last couple of days!

Okay, so here’s the deal, I have many friends who are working on an event in Seattle called Get Hitched Give Hope.  It’s an uber swanky event in Seattle where wedding vendors have offered their services but the catch is that all the proceeds go ‘To grant wishes to stage 4 breast cancer patients for whom the cure can’t come soon enough.’  What an amazing opportunity, right?  Well if you are getting married or want to attend the event, definitely follow the link as I place it all over this post!

I was chatting with a couple of the organizers of the event and they are all set with their vendors that will be offering their wedding services for the auction… But Meg and I still wanted to help!  So with a some creative help from the GHGH ladies we came up with a plan, and here it is:

—–>>>>>For the month of September we’ll be doing our portrait sessions for a discounted rate starting at $200 and of that $200 we’ll be giving $50 to Get Hitched Give Hope!  Meg and I really believe this to be such a worthy cause and we are so excited to be able to help in any way we can.  So give us a call or send us an email and set up your portrait session today.  We do Families, Maternity, Babies, Children, Seniors, Musicians, Headshots, Pet’s…  I’ve attached some samples from the last few months to kind of give a taste of what we’ve been up to.  Enjoy and get a hold of us soon to set up a session!

Thanks to all the peops of GHGH for putting this event on and inspiring us to get involved as well.  If you haven’t followed one of the links yet, here it is again:-).

www.gethitchedgivehope.com

Our dear friends the Gilfillans are expecting a baby girl!!  We are so incredibly excited for them!  You have seen their faces many times before on our blog – here and here!  They are Evantide Alumni!!!

Rob, BreAnn, and Jase – we are so excited for you guys to grow as a family with new baby girl!!

Jase – you are tooooo cute!!!!!!

Ohhhhhhhhh, is this how the shoot is going to go???? Grumpy Jase???

Nope – Jase is in it to win it!!!!!! Yay!!

Ahhh, I love these guys!!

Congrats! Can’t wait to meet her!!

~Megs

Okay, so the crazy thing is that you’ve already met Amir at about 1.5 days old in this post (check out the last photo).  But we couldn’t resist doing an actual session as well.  Jennifer and Feras had us over to their place and we had a great time reconnecting and photographing, of course:-).  Amir was a very cooperative sleeper, but I’m going to put it out there and say he wasn’t such a cooperative poser… let it begin Jennifer:-).   It was great to see you at the wedding and even more fun to be able to catch up some more during the shoot and get to know Amir.  Congratulations and enjoy this preview:-).

Home, ahhh.

I can only imagine how hilarious Amir’s going to be if his personality is a combination of these two:-).

You can leave comments and congrats below:-).

Amidst the wedding season – we absolutely love keeping up with our families!!  We met Whitney and Fernando and their two darling boys a while ago out in the county!  Ty and Blake took about two minutes to warm up to us – which is awesome!  We normally plan 15 minutes or so of just getting the kids used to ‘big bald guy’ Aaron and I, but these kids didn’t need that much time!  So we dove right in!  Blake and Ty were incredibly fun!  Thank you Whitney and Fernando! You guys rock!

Later that day, Aaron and I took Grant down to Boulevard Park to watch the sun set.  While we were down there we ran into Fernando’s brother and a large group of Whitney and Fernando’s friends!  I complemented Fernando’s brother on how stinking cute Blake and Ty were!  His response “They take after his uncle!!”  Awesome!

Enjoy the photos!

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I met up with the Gaspers recently because they wanted one shot.  That’s not much to ask right?  We met up at Western and they got their shot:-).  Here’s cute lil Kate with her parents.  Enjoy!

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Meg and I always like being able to visit with Colm and Tami but this visit was special because we had the opportunity to capture some images of lil’ Ciara.  I think she was just 5 days old when we did the shoot?  Perfect age for a newborn session.  They usually sleep 22 hours a day, so hey, if she’s awake the whole time we’re there and we’re there for three hours, we are guaranteed atleast an hour of her snoozing:-).  She was so beautiful and again I was so jealous of her hair.  Any baby with hair makes me jealous, can’t figure out why:-).  Alright, less typing and more photos.  Welcome Ciara, it was really great to meet you!

A family of four!

Lashes.

She even finished by flashing us a little smile!  So, cute!

You can leave welcome comments for Ciara below!

Lots of blogging coming very soon!  But in the midst of a pretty busy season, I thought I would give you a sense of the last few days:-).  Enjoy some of my faves from the last 5 days!

Tamara + Kevin

Julie + Micah

Photo of a photo:-).

Ugandan Orphan Choir at Abbie and Brandon’s wedding.

Abbie + Brandon

Welcome Ciara!

Welcome Jillian!

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A lot has changed in the last few days for this family.  Lindsay contacted us to do a family photo session this last week knowing that they would have a lil kiddo arriving on Monday.  We have friends in the last month who have had kiddos arrive weeks ‘early’ and weeks ‘late’, and now a kiddo that arrived at her appointed time on Monday morning:-).

Congratulations Lindsay and Larry and we looking forward meeting and capturing some images of lil J next week!  Enjoy a few from this shoot for now:-).

These were the simpler times.

Last minute advice?  Words of encouragement?  Warnings?

Awesome.  If he had a Facebook page, this would be his profile photo, for sure!

Lindsay – you’re gorgeous!! Just sayin!  (This is Meg writing!)

A family of four.  I love this photo!

With a quick shutter speed I was able to capture this… but what was really going on was…

… this .

We’d love to hear what you think?

I have a new motto about family photos, especially for those that haven’t had them done in a long time or ever -

“It’s never been too long to have gone without getting family photos… As long as you get them done soon”   Oh and another -

” With Evantide, photos are never as painful as one might think…  they’re actually guaranteed to be a good time”

With new mottos out of the way it’s time to introduce you to this amazing family.  It had been a long time since they had photos and they were excited to get some new images of the crew:-).  Katen just turned two so we were excited that we were able to take these right around her birthday.

We had a great time and are excited to hand these images off to you!!  Sneak peak time!

Katen mentally preparing herself for this next shot!

Ahh, look at those eyes!

Their pup was having a hard time standing still with all of the squirrels so Shaun perched her up here so she had no where to go.  Awesome.  She turned into a watch dog and I was enthralled, let’s be honest.

Keeping watch while Meg captured a nice family photo:-).

I love how Katen held on to the puppies collar to keep the family connected, adorable!

We’d love to hear what you think?  You can leave comments below:-).

Not only are we visual people as far as photographing people and our other subjects… but I looked over from my desk today and saw how Meg prepared for us to hand off our many shoots and jobs from this last week and a half and it made me laugh.  We are visual people in general.  She had lined up all of our shoots and jobs so that we can see, send off and check off the list each job in order.  I had to take a photo and it got me thinking – I haven’t talked enough about two things:

1.  Beautiful canvases that we can get done for you of the images we capture.  These photos don’t begin to do justice the awesomeness and beauty of these works of art!

2.  Our friends at Bison Letter Press that did all of our material that we hand off to our clients.  They did such amazing work with our Business Cards, Greeting Cards, Disc Sleeves, and Handle Bags.  I’ll need to do a post that really shows off their work.  Thanks guys!

This is what I turned and saw.  Funny and photographable:-).

If you see your name on one of those green envelopes… Yep, that means we’re just finishing up your photos, whoo hoo!