Evantide Photography

We were hearing about many of our friends sending their kiddos to school today, so we were inspired to take a little break from work and we took Grant to school.  We headed to Lowell Elementary School for a little shoot and then because Grants not in school we headed to the park and met Grady (the Goldie).  Enjoy!!

We love this kid!!!

Grant’s turns to the iPhones GPS to find his class

Ahh, he got distracted by Pandora and now he must dance!

An 18 month old king of this castle!

Okay this is Grady… Grant loved playing fetch with him… only one problem… Grant can’t throw very far so every time Grant threw it Grady was catching it before the ball was even on the way down:-).  Amazing photo Meg!

These next two images are a plea for help from Stef…. Please… Look at those whispy’s.

I don’t know why you would leave a comment on this random post, but if you do it’ll help our Google ratings, hey just sayin’ .

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

After our wedding at Cave B and handing Grant off to Grandpa and Grandama’s several times.  We were due to stop for a couple days.  Some call it a weekend, we call it a vacation, lol:-).  So, we headed to Lake Chelan.  One of the first evenings we were there, we went to the lake with camera in tow (go figure:-).  We saw a young guy with a camera bag and bouquet of flowers, he was walking around and looked a little nervous…  So we asked him what he was up to and he said he was getting married.  Well the next obvious step was to approach him (Jason) and ask if he wanted us to capture some images for him.  Jason agreed so we headed over and met his bride Sabrina:-).  So they stepped ankle deep into the lake and got married.  It was a beautiful night and such a fun surprise for us to be able to do some shooting.  Congratulations Jason and Sabrina, enjoy this preview!

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Julie and Micah’s wedding day just called out ‘Northwest’ to me.  Whether it was the plum and moss green color scheme, or the literal moss they utilized in their center pieces and throughout the decorations.  The feel in general was laid back and classic as well as a little cloudy:-).  I just felt at home the whole day:-).  It came together beautifully!!  I’ll get to the photos, there are a lot because I couldn’t narrow them down very well, it was tough.  Congrats to you both and all the best!! Enjoy this sneak peak.

Here is a recipe of success if you are planning your big day here in Bellingham!

Venue – Lairmont Manor

Florist – New Leaf

Caterer – Taste of Elegance

Band – Jesse Morrow and the Band

Hair Stylist – Plum Hair Studio

Officiant – Rick Todd

Photographers – Oooh, I know them! Oh, yeah Evantide Photography

Meg snagged this shot to try and embarrass me, yet I’ve posted on the blog myself.  I know it’s difficult to stop staring but…

…Okay, much better.  Julie, you are so much better at this than I am.  I guess that’s a good thing, right:-)?

Meg rocked this shot!  New Leaf did a great job with this bouquet!

‘How you doin?’… Am I allowed to add captions to these photos?

Love, love, love this shot!  Meg always takes the awesome photos.

Lairmont Manor.

Dude, Micah, this is your wife!!

And why was Julie not taking a photo of me?

The awesome center pieces.

We love seeing the engagement photos being utilized.  Love it!

Meg and I feel so blessed that people continue to trust us to capture their beautiful day’s.  This next one is fun because we’ll be shooting Whitney and Ian’s wedding very soon as well!

We really <3 comments:-).

With all the heat, I seem to be functioning better as a night owl as things cool down.  I even processed three photo shoots last night after 10 pm.  Even at 10 this computer has been keeping the room warm:-).  I took a quick break tonight to head down to the Chrysalis to take a few dusk photos.  It’s fun to take photos because I can and to mix it up a bit.  The sunset was at 9:10 and I took these at 10:15.  Enjoy and continue to keep your eyes out for our wedding and portrait bloggeration that is coming very soon!

It would be cool to see some more stars but just seeing a few is fun for me!

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With all of the dSLR’s that people are purchasing in the last couple of years and a lack of understanding in how to utilize them…  We wanted to help people learn to begin taking their cameras off of Auto.  We did our first workshop back in February and everyone had a blast and learned some great info and we saw a lot of ‘A ha’ moments as they began to understand how the cameras worked.  There were several requests to do another round of this work shop and we made it happen last weekend.  We had a great time down at Boulevard learning the basics of shooting in manual and took some time to see it practice as well.  Thanks ladies for joining us and like I said if you have any questions please let us know!  Here are a few snapshots from our time together!

In chatting about shutter speed, they had to be quick to capture me in the air… I land quickly:-).

Emily let me use her to show how we look for and find great light.

Brenda let us utilize her to show how you can create depth and perspective.

I’ve been shot!

Thanks ladies for trusting us with you morning… We had a great time!

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!

Today was a bit of a rough day with our little man.  Grant has been fighting an upper respiratory infection and it’s been a pretty rough go.  But in the midst of it this morning, he was having a happy moment and was practicing mimicking mom and dad.  My sister who was in town from Dallas got these shots with her little point and shoot and I’m so glad she captured them for me:-).  Happy Fathers day to all you Dads out there!

I can’t get over how cute this next one is.  He thought it was my turn to be photographed:-).  Thanks for capturing these Christie!

It’s a rare chance that we hop in front of the camera, and here’s why

But, we got a good one!

Last weekend we headed down to Seattle!  An often occurrence for our little troop of 3!  We had a great meeting, a fun time seeing my family, and finished strong with a photo shoot!  We met up with Tami, Colm, and Brendan at the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle.  It is such a cool place to explore – that is when you don’t have two hungry toddlers!  Lucky for us, Tami is the brains that helped start Evantide oh so long ago!

So we handed her the camera to capture a quick shot of the three of us!  I love the first one because it is so us!  Aaron is laughing – he does that a lot and I love it! Grant is letting his ‘bubble’ be known – and I am breaking that bubble! And how in the world does Aaron let me out of the house looking like that!! C’mon!! I have an amazing hair dresser that I feel like I disappoint her every time I put my hair in a pony tail!  Sorry Steph!!

If you are ready for your family photos to be updated – shoot us an email and let’s set something up!!

With all of this crazy weather we’ve had to cancel and postpone some shoots and a couple times the weather still turned out great.  Welcome to the Pacific Northwest I guess:-).   About an hour before this shoot started it was raining like no other and I thought about calling and cancelling but I didn’t and I’m so glad.  We had a mostly dry shoot and had a great time.  Congrats to you both and we are looking forward to your wedding next month!

Meg got me again!

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