Courtney & Ira | Seattle
July 4th, 2011
Back in April, Matt and I traveled to the northwest for one of my top engagement sessions ever. It’s not everyday that we travel by seaplane to a remote family cabin. Yep, we flew by seaplane to Quilcene on The Hood Canal outside Seattle, Washington. I managed to shoot a few rolls of film for this as well.
This place is special.
I met Courtney at Gina & Mike’s wedding back in 2007-so cool that she kept my card all that time and called me to photograph her wedding (in Napa this August). Since both Courtney and Ira grew up in Seattle I knew we’d have to shoot their engagement portraits there. After a few phone calls to talk about locations and details she had mentioned that Ira is an avid skier. I was discussing with her options to shoot near some mountains or something “Northwest”. What a location she got. This place is Ira’s family retreat (summer holidays, clam-digging, getting oysters) and you can feel how special it is. Although the cabin was being remodeled we managed to spend about 2 hours before heading back to Seattle. On our way back we took the scenic route and flew over the Olympic Mountains.
I love that 3 days before the shoot I got a text message “we have a seaplane for Saturday”…
It’s been so long since I’ve shot film, below are a few of my favorites.
Laura & Kendall’s Story | Photo + Film
April 15th, 2011
UPDATE: Featured on Style Me Pretty
As 2011 wedding season gets into full swing I thought I would share Laura & Kendall’s story. We’re in the process of tweaking our site to feature more films, but couldn’t wait any longer to share.
Old School
June 6th, 2008
After 5 years of not shooting any film products, I’ve gone back to film (kinda). Andrew Marinkovich showed me his Polaroid back for his Holga camera. I used to take my Holga everywhere with me and even dismantled one by removing the shutter so I could shoot at night. That was many years ago though. Since Polaroid stopped making type 80 films and are stopping all film production in 2009, it’s really hard to find. After a few days of research I found some at Unsaleable, a company based in Austria. They have this really awesome Chocolate Film that has a sepia look to it. I even found this website called Save Polaroid which is kinda cool.
The idea is to shoot a series of 10 images at selected weddings (it’s expensive since I’m buying in Euro) and then mount into a book for the couple. It’s a cool thing to give them after shooting with them all day. Plus, since we’re in the digital age with slideshows and blogs this is old school instant. Now my only problem is finding more Polaroid. I just ordered 15 packs of Viva Color which I can’t wait to shoot with.
