Bombshell Jenni Walker

This shoot has been in the works for nearly 2 years. Jenni and I first talked about shooting in 2009, when I was pregnant with Ella. I remember being inspired by Jenni's 18th century inspired features. I knew she'd be lovely behind the lens, but who knew we'd end up shooting a year after Ella's birth, in the beautiful Portland Fall.

Once I began shooting I realized that Jenni has way more than a gorgeous face; check out her bombshell figure as well!






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Pumpkin Patch 2010

This is a beautiful video by Jelani.

2010 Pumpkin Patch

Wow. We totally lucked out today with the weather totally playing in our favor and the pumpkin patch still full of good picken's! The only draw back to going on a weekday, is the lack of Elephant ears for sale. I mean, of the few places you go during the year for elephant ears, this is one of the best! Plus, Ella's godmother "Nana Lori" is somewhat crazy about the sugary treat. Now she did manage to score the very last bag of kettle corn so I consider it an even exchange ( :

This was our second year at this particular farm out on Sauvie's Island. Last year Jelani and I went on our own, with Ella still being in my belly. It was the first time, however, we went on the tractor ride!

It was really fun to watch Ella take it all in. She had the most fun once she could walk around on her own two feet. She kept tripping on the pumpkin roots, but didn't seem to mind since she had access to 100's of giant orange toys and dirt! My girl LOVES dirt.

I got some funny shots of Owen, who looks like he's the worlds youngest photographer on a baby shoot or something. Everyone seemed to have fun picking out their pumpkins and I'm really thankful that Ella was able to enjoy her first year at the patch with her god family.

Marathon

So I have been trying to blog weekly, if not bi-weekly this summer. I believe I succeeded most months, but for some reason the past couple of weeks I've been hard pressed to find the time. Of course, I run both this blog AND my Lavenda Seniors blog. So that's double blogging duty. Yep.

Things have been really good as far as business goes. I've been booking lots of weddings and engagement shoots, as well as headshots and model book updates. I'm always so excited to get to know the folks who gravitate towards my work. Here's a couple shots of new model, Brian Seward, who after booking his shoot- realized we are old school mates:




On a personal note, my brother came into town for the weekend to run the Portland marathon. He and his friends crashed here and then we all went to see him finish the race on Sunday. Here are some shots of him getting ready, killing a stink bug for me the night before and then all of us at the race the next day: