This past week I turned another year older. I really wanted some portraits of our family to capture this unbelievably fun yet crazy time in our lives. With two outlandishly cute boys and a smoking hot wife, life is good.

Boone was in Seattle for the weekend and Ashley arranged for a little birthday gift to me of some time in front of the camera with Boone. We hit up a park in Capital Hill and Boone rocked some sweet images that really capture our family. There’s a lot of love, laughing, energy and a bit of boogers as well. Thank you Ashley for the perfect gift and thank you Boone for your time and your eye! I’m thinking a fat canvas wrap will do the trick… especially when we get a new place in Ballard (but that’s another story for another time).

Really, what's cuter than an 11 month old with a runny nose in a tight-fitting Burberry sweater!?

September - 2008 (Tap image for large version)

Yeah, unbelievable. Those cheeks just don’t stop! This little guy was so stinkin cute and he just wanted to stick his tongue out at me most of the morning. I couldn’t help but smile the entire time. Sara and Jim found us through our good friend Kirk over at the Practical Westcoast Blog. We had a great shoot the weekend before last at their West Seattle home and over the phone realized that we all went to college together. Check out the darkroom slideshow.

Boone and I shoot a select amount of seniors and families each year and so far we’ve had super-rad clients for 2008. You can look forward to some more awesome seniors up on the blog in the near future as well as maybe a family or two. Still have a bunch of weddings to post as well!

I love this parting look that he gave me as we packed up to leave. Perfect.

We shoot a handful of senior photos every year.  Chanel came to me looking for something that isn’t your typical senior photo so I was pretty stoked to set something up with her.  This shoot started by grabbing a coffee at Ken’s with Chanel and my awesome assistant for this shoot, Jennifer Schmidt (a friend through flickr).  We had to wait for the rain to let off a little which gave us a chance to talk a bit more about the shoot.  Twelve ounces later we were wandering down NW 21st Ave to hit up a few clutch spots and then eventually over to the Pearl District to finish up with shooting inside of Sip N Kranz. 

By the way, this shot (above) was taken at f1.2 @ 1/2000 with a 580exII coming a bit from the left.