Stuart, Becky, Lauren, Bailey & Hannah November 6, 2010 Gabriel Park in SW Portland, Oregon I always have this moment of trepidation right before I begin a session: will they like us? Will they just relax, be themselves and in the moment? But this day, I had no need to worry. When two of the...
Yearly Archives: 2010
Life is what happens when you’re making other plans
Things have been a bit quiet around here of late– and by here I mean the blog, and not our life in general. I’m almost positive that I announced sometime back that we’re expecting another child. She’ll be joining our family early this spring and though I am a planner to the nth degree, the...
Sara & Brian’s Wedding in the beautiful Yakima Valley
Sara and Brian found us through the magic of the internet last fall and I am so incredibly grateful that they did! They live in Seattle and we got to meet them a few times throughout the ensuing months, and they were so lovely that we were really excited when it came time to finally...
Family pictures at Cannon Beach
Things are crazy around here and needless to say we’re not blogging much! But we had so much fun at the beach last weekend photographing Eric and Anna and their adorable kids. We’ve been photographing their family for three years now and I love watching their kids grow. And today, when I was working on...
Perri and Corey at the Crown Ballroom • Portland Oregon Weddings
Perri and Corey have one of those stories that make me kind of believe in fate: they met in Mexico, on vacation, while they were each with their individual families. They had an instant connection and spent the rest of the time inseparable. But Perri is from Toronto and Corey is from Portland and you’d...
Jason, Angela, Lucy & Lillian • Portland Oregon Portraits
I know that this commentary has the capability to sound just a little bit redundant but I just have to say it again: the world is SO SMALL when you’ve lived in one town your entire life. Case in point: last fall, I was perusing the wares at our daughter’s school auction when I saw...
Brigitte & Eric and the bridges of Portland • Portland Engagement Sessions
Over the last several months we’ve been thinking about weddings here at RLPStudios. (Full disclosure: I’ve been subscribing to Martha Stewart Weddings since the inaugural issue. But I digress). We photographed a lot of weddings last season and had an amazing time. We noticed something, though, along the way: with our portrait clients, we’re able...
Pat, Laurie and Emma • Portland Family Portraits
We photographed Pat, Laurie and Emma for the first time about a year and a half ago. Emma was, then, an adorably chubby cheeked baby who I literally couldn’t stop kissing for the entire session. She was just that sweet. We photographed her at home, in her bedroom, and in their backyard in the grass...
As close to home as it gets
We’ve been doing a lot of rearranging things in our life lately and that’s included our home. Our little girl is now four and was determined to get a “girly room” instead of the childhood hodgepodge that it had become. I did my best to scour the shops and somehow found a combination of purple...
The many sides of senior portraiture • Portland Oregon Photographers
One of the things that I love about being a photographer in the Pacific Northwest is the prolific variety of backgrounds that we have to use for our clients. Within literally minutes of the downtown, urban Portland metropolitan area there are fields and forests, and past that is the Oregon Coast and the Cascade Mountains...