Red, red Wine

Go GREEN with Portland-made Holiday Cards!

Since I am an absolute sucker for snail mail, I was already impressed with receiving my Jarfly cards via mail man. After I tore through the wrap like a gift-starved kid I was equally impressed to find an assortment of bright, fun holiday cards inside a beautiful boutique packaging.

Anyhow, I simply HAD to share my find and am linking everyone to Jarfly's rad blog where you can see their latest designs and shops. Go GREEN and support a local business/ artist!

Here are a couple of my favorite designs:

Christmas Web Series

I was a guest start in the web series, Merry Holidays- Please Hold created for San Francisco based, Zendesk.
Check it out!

Misty Mountains - Portland Lifestyle Photographer

Styling: Aria Chittendon
Makeup and Hair: Jen Springer
Assistant: Nick Wilson
Portland Lifestyle Photographer Lavenda Memory

Portland Fashion Photographer: Ballet

Portland Fashion Photographer Lavenda Memory

Christine Marie - Portland Head Shots

I'm very excited to post this shot of my fabulous makeup artist, Christine Marie. Christine is the artistic trifecta of photography, makeup and modeling. She dabbles and wows in all three areas and after our tag-team shoot yesterday, I can now say I've experienced all three of her talents first hand.

Christine and I did a photo trade since I am in need of a good smiling headshot and her modeling agency, Heffner, is requesting some photo updates for her portfolio. Headshots are kind of a challenge for me, because I don't normally like photos of myself smiling. I guess I feel old.

Anyhow, Christine managed to supersede my expectations 10 fold (wow I've always wanted to say 10 fold) and gave me more than plenty of great options to choose from. Here are a couple shots from our shoot yesterday:

Christine:


My New Headshot:


Portland Portrait and Headshot Photographer Lavenda Memory

Los Ojos Azules

Blue dress, Blue eyes, Blue Skies









Thanks Christine Marie for fantastic job on hair and makeup.
And Lauren Steenson for your modeling chops.

Published Fashion Photographer Lavenda Memory

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!






Portland Portrait Photographer Lavenda Memory - Portland Headshots

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:

Domestic Awakening - Portland Editorial Photographer

The idea behind this editorial is to reveal the hum drum events of married life and how stale it can be until romance is reintroduced.

I will tell more when the photos are all wrapped up. I will submitting this series for an Editorial contest (Deadline November). So excited!



Makeup and Hair: Christine Marie
Assist: Nick Wilson
And special thanks to Jana who let me use her lovely home ( :

Portland Editorial Photographer Lavenda Memory

Waiting for Halley

I have been working so much that I haven't had time to post all my recent shoots! Last week I had 5 shoots alone! Things will begin to slow down as the summer rush dies down. Which is good AND bad I suppose.

Anyhow, I am really excited to begin posting these last shoots. This first set are from a maternity session with Amber and Mike. We chose the waterfront because it has such a nice mix of urban and nature. It whispers Portland summer with the river running across the cityscape.
Amber and Mike didn't realize that this would be their last evening without their new little girl, Halley (pronounced Hal- ee). Halley actually arrived the VERY next day if you can believe it!

Amber and Mike were the perfect picture of happy, expectant parents.

outside my rainy window

bright lights
like strobes filter
past the springs

pulleys

screens

singing skin
setting fire to my sillouette

a sparkling semblance