Evantide Photography

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!

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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!

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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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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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Dave and Melanie – where do we start with these two?  They are such a perfect compliment to each other!  Back when they were only dating – 3 months into dating, at that – Melanie got a glimpse of what the “In sickness and in health” clause was all about!  Dave had gotten into an accident out at Northwest Fields playing rec soccer.  Two talented, competitive grown men sprinting at each other and a soccer ball in the air will most likely always end in a trip in the ambulance.  Dave’s family lives on the east coast, and Dave was in need of help.  In comes sweet Melanie!  And she’s stuck by his side!!  Next month – they will be getting married at one of our favorite venues in the county – Tail Skid Meadows!

This shoot was a blast!  We started in good ‘ol Bellingham and then headed down to her grandpas 40 acres in Skagit County!  It was incredibly gorgeous – but also a trip down memory lane which we got to share in the memories!

Dave and Melanie – thanks for having us! There are soooo many more images we want to post!  Enjoy these for now

We are off to celebrate another wedding today – yeah Brandon and Abbie!  But we wanted to keep sharing these shoots with you!  Enjoy!

This next one is straight out of camera!  And I LOVE IT!!!!

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~Megs

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!

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:-).

We were so excited to have Ellyn and Kyle up to Bellingham and we had a great time.  It was fun to hit up some great Bellingham spots and of course finish the shoot of with lunch at Downtown Bobs Burger ‘n Brew, mmmm.

We are so excited for you wedding, enjoy this quick sneak into your photos:-)!

Ellyn and Kyle have a cool tree theme to their wedding so I couldn’t help but to take them to my all time favorite tree:-).  It performed as usual!

You both look amazing in this shot!

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