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 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

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?

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!

We had a uber fun portrait year in 2009.  Maybe part of it was that we have a kiddo of our own but I can’t get over all these cute faces and I finished the blog with some adults as well:-).  You’ll notice a theme with the white backdrops quite often.  I’ve collected a really fun collection of beautiful children set against a clean white backdrop.  Love it.  Enjoy.

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And a strong finish with cute little face that no one can resist.

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It seems like a strange way for things to happen, but Meg, Grant and I met up with Rikki (one of Meg’s co-workers) for a maternity shoot.  Well the odd part is that we knew full well that she was going to be having  this lil fella in two days.  I guess that means we knew how much time we had:).  Rikki was a total trooper and let us take her out into the county for some fun photos.  Congratulations Rikki & Todd and welcome to the world Colt!  Enjoy.

Seriously, who looks this great two days before giving birth.  Way to go Rikki!

Yep, that’s the army crawl.  Because the ‘army crawl’ is the new ‘walking’.  And she had no clue I was approaching because I stayed low:-).

Are you kidding me?  Sa-weet!

Grant has issues with not being the center of attention so he army crawled over to Rikki.  And of course to say hi to Colt, his new buddy.

I’ve been having a blast trying new things with light.  Whether it’s ambient or not.  Here is ambient -

And  here is ‘not’ -

I find that focusing on the client can be totally over-rated.

I am amazed by Meg and how she is developing as a photographer.  It’s fun to watch her break away from what I do and really create her own style and niche.  That’s my wife!

Hey Colton Daniel.  Nice to meet you.

We love reading your comments!

Time was running short and Joey really wanted to get together for a quick maternity session.  We had fun spending some time in Fairhaven.  Congratulations Joey and keep us updated!

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