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A Bit About Me

Loud. Shy. Tattooed. Married to Denver {which makes me pretty lucky}. Mom to 5 boys & 1 girl {which also makes me pretty darn lucky}. Watch a lot of TV. A lot. Music..love my music & am currently hooked on Mumford & Sons. Formerly addicted to Mountain Dew. Resigning myself to the fact that I actually do like living in the desert; but recently hit the jackpot and now live in Seattle. Red Wine. My fisheye lens is my favorite.

Thanks for stopping by to check out what I do. I love creating unique, fun & modern portraits. This is where you'll find all my recent work, both professional & personal. Want to book a session? Contact me & let's make it happen. Browse around...I hope you like what you see!

Nate Simpson for DailyBR!NK.com

Friday, February 10, 2012 Posted in guys, Portraits

Nate is a cartoonist/illustrator and a pretty incredible artist. I was contacted by DailyBR!NK, who features artists, entrepreneurs, inventors, musicians, people who have done or accomplished amazing or cool things in their field, to do photos for his feature. Each person is interviewed along with photos & I was honored to be asked to take Nate’s portraits. He’s a super cool guy, very laid back, and frankly, after I read his interview and his achievements, incredibly humble as well. We headed to Gasworks Park, which is a pretty great park with an incredible view of the Seattle skyline. It was a cloudy day, hard to imagine here in The Emerald City, I know, but we made it work. It was my first official session here in our new city, and I am glad I had Nate to make it so easy! Here is his feature, you should definitely check it out: Nate Simpson

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{Luke | Junior Year}

Monday, October 17, 2011 Posted in My Personal Stuff, Portraits, Teens

This one is my oldest. My first baby. The one who made me a mommy. The one who was so easy, so helpful & so darn cute. Well, at 16.5 with a Learner’s Permit, and a Junior in high school, he’s still pretty easy, helpful when encouraged, and well, as you can see, he’s pretty darn handsome, too! I just love this kid {well…I love them all, but this one is about him, so..}. As many know by now, we moved to Seattle just a few weeks ago, but not all of us. 3 of the kids stayed in Phoenix. I love Seattle, I love the weather, the city, our cute house, everything about it…but I miss my 3 boys who stayed in the Valley of the Sun. So so much. I text them all the time and technology has kept them close, but not seeing them has been a struggle for this mommy. I took these pictures shortly before we said our goodbyes and they went with their dad, and we hopped in the car headed for Seattle. I smiled as I edited these because they turned out great, he’s getting so old and more and more handsome; and I teared up because I miss him so much, and it’s only been a few weeks. As you can imagine, there will be miles racking up, as I will be going to visit and they will be visiting us in Seattle, too. I’m itching to book the first flight!! In the meantime, I harass him with texts

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{I Heart Faces | Flowers}

Monday, May 16, 2011 Posted in My Personal Stuff, Portraits, Weddings

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{wedding fever}

Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Posted in My Personal Stuff, Portraits, Uncategorized, Weddings

Since shooting my last wedding, I have had wedding fever! Theirs was my 3rd wedding, and I am smitten with shooting such a special day! I have loved each couple I’ve been honored to photograph and love, love weddings! I am hoping to get more weddings to shoot and thought about the perfect wedding I’d like to shoot, and honestly, it is one like mine. I am still a newlywed, our first anniversary is June 26th, and while I would change some of the smaller details of the wedding, overall, it was ‘us’..and fit us to a T. Small, non-traditional on pretty much every thing and it was the most perfect day. While I was planning our big day, I obsessed over the website http://offbeatbride.com. Obsessed. Many of the weddings just spoke to me, tattooed couples, funky details, non-traditional wedding dresses, special ceremonies that captured the personalities of the couple. As I thought about the type of client I would love to shoot, I had a light bulb, ‘duh’, moment. I want to shoot weddings with people like me! A little left of center, unique and fun…a couple up for anything! A little like this couple here: http://offbeatbride.com/2011/05/australia-rocknroll-wedding Now, I’m down for shooting a more traditional wedding as well, but I have been researching re-branding and really feeling out the clients that I would like to shoot and who might want me to shoot them, too. I think having two full sleeve tattoos is a part of my thinking process, while a photographer needs to be as invisible as possible, it would surely be easier to fit in at a wedding where my arms, if uncovered, would be less shocking.

Anyway…my mind has been going round and round and I feel like I am in a place to take my business to the next level and do it with a clear purpose and intent. It’s exhausting just thinking about it, and to be frank, something I have been putting off for months. I hate to fail, so if I don’t plan it, it can’t fail, right? So, now I have put this into the universe, and have to plan and make changes, make clearer my ideas and purpose and hopefully get to shooting some fun people along the way. Goals. Gotta have ‘em, gotta try to reach ‘em! Weddings, portraits, I love them. Love people. Love to capture a specific moment. It’s a gift to share in the lives of the people I get to photograph.

Since a post is never any good without at least a couple of pictures, here are a few favorites from the weddings I’ve shot & one from my own, just because

<—photo credit to kristie parker photography

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{Fabulous Frames | New Product!}

Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Posted in Products, Uncategorized

I am so excited to say that I am now offering these fabulous frames by Organic Bloom! They are awesomely handmade and come in many shapes and sizes..and the best part? The COLOR choices! You can do pretty much any color you’d like & have an option to stack the frames, how cool is that? You’re pretty much guaranteed to find one to match your decor and fit your personality. Check out their website to see what others have done and to see the frames in action. If you’re a past client and want one, I can hook you up! A full price list is available when you contact me. Just one more reason to get portraits done…the awesome ‘stuff’ you can get. Don’t forget I offer custom albums, accordion albums, gallery wrap canvases and am on the search to find new, unique items to offer! For a better, larger view of the frames and colors..check my facebook under products, these are teensy!