{Engagement Session!} Jen & Iyad frolic in the snow at Mt. Hood's Timberline Lodge.

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An awesome day for Josh and I, spent with yet another awesome couple!


Jen and Iyad were supposed to meet up with us the week before, for an engagement session on the mountain.The weather had not been cooperating enough for us to risk getting stuck in the snow... I know! Crazy snow showers in end of May, beginning of June!


We rescheduled the shoot for yesterday, Monday, and it turned out to be just as they predicted: a warmish, bright, rain/snow free day! 


We met up at the entrance of Timberline Lodge, above the tree line, atop Mt Hood. We started off exploring the cozy and warm interior of the lodge and then made our way outside, to the snow, where all of the snowboarders were. It was so fun being surrounded by deep snow and blue skies and cracks in the clouds, long and clear enough to reveal the gorgeous mountain...


After frolicking in the snow and the trees a bit, we headed down the mountain to Trillium Lake. The roads were clear and, still, the temperatures were just right! Not much of a reflection of Mt Hood on the surface of the water as I had hoped, but the woods around the lake were a beautiful setting for photos anyway!


Here are a few of the images we took yesterday.


More to come!


~ Alice & Josh


Wedding Day: Saturday June 26th 2010
Wedding Location: Crown Plaza Hotel, Portland OR

{Engagement Session!} Traci & Chad Rockin' Portland's Eastbank Esplanade!

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** UPDATE **

148 images are now edited and available to view in the slideshow embedded at the bottom of this blog post!
Friends and Family: you have access to Traci & Chad's online gallery where you can create favorites folders and order prints as well! Click to get there! :)

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What can we say about our new friends Traci & Chad?

Nothing but great things! They are in love, fun, funny, and beautiful; plus, yesterday (when we did the shoot) was Chad's birthday! Happy birthday Chad!! ;)

Their wedding will be on August 14th, 2010 (Josh's Birthday!) at Camas Meadows Golf Club, Camas WA.


I know that a "sneak peek" blog post of a shoot should only have a handful of images as a "tease"... but yesterday's engagement [break-the-ice] session with them was SO perfect and SO fun that we simply can't narrow down what to show! Soooooo... this sneak peek post is a longer one than usual! Hope nobody minds! ;)

This is a side of town we not often go to. Not sure why. Its beautiful over there: the Eastbank Esplanade.

We met up at 4:30 under the two giant Weeping Willows by the Hawthorne Bridge, on the East side of the river. Started off with the trees, the floating dock, the trains, the overpasses, even Portland's Firefighters! That's right! Josh asked the firemen if they could open the garage up for us to use the trucks for Traci & Chad's photos and they said: "of course!". Just an added little photoshoot backdrop bonus we hadn't planned on using! FUN!

Then we walked all the way to the Morrison Bridge, all along the gorgeous path, looking for photogenic and fun places to stop and shoot. Our awesome photo karma even had the Morrison Bridge's draw-bridge open up for a barge that was making its way through! After two hours passed, we realized we were all starving! So we stopped shooting and decided to go to our favorite Italian restaurant on NW 21st & Flanders to grab some food, a drink and to chit chat for another couple of hours!

We are serious when we say that with every single new couple we add to our summer wedding season, we also gain new friends. Everyone we meet, we end up bonding with in ways more deep than in a simple working relationship kind of way. The confidence and the openness of this kind of relationship is a perfect way for wedding photography to be even more smooth and fun and casual. We broke-the-ice with them for sure!

Here are a few of the images from the engagement session, with SO many more to come! :)

~ Alice & Josh

{Engagement Session!} Andra & Andrew Downtown Portland on a Perfectly Sunny Day!

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**UPDATE!**

All of their engagement session images are online and gorgeous!

Here is the full slideshow of the whole set... enjoy! 

Friends and Family: click HERE, scroll to "Andra & Andrew", then click the link to go to their Official Online Gallery, where their wedding photos will also be, soon!

We LOVE it when our couples have THIS much fun on a photoshoot with us!

Andra and Andrew were great today! We literally walked all over the Park Blocks and the streets around them, looking for fun and creative architecture to use as backdrops. The sun was shining and the temperature was warm and inviting. Just a perfect day!
Here are just a few of the whole set of images Josh and I took today.
More to come!
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Wedding Date: June 12th, 2010
Ceremony Location: Reed College, Portland OR
Reception Location: Giorgio's Italian Restaurant, Pearl District, Portland OR

As Summer 2010 Approaches, Here is a Huge Thank You to all of our Couples of 2009.

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With our super busy 2010 wedding season fast approaching, Josh and I wanted to be sure to remind all of you summer 2009 couples, how much you meant to us back then, and how wonderful it is to still keep in touch today. 

Every year that goes by, we meet new wonderful couples. Every year, we are honored to have been chosen to see their passage from one state of being to a new one: being a husband and wife. Our profession allows us to immortalize this important life transition and as individuals, we get the opportunity to witness the public celebration of love that is a wedding. 

There is nothing in this world we would rather be doing, other than this very thing. 

To all of our gorgeous couples of 2009, thank you for letting us be a part of your wedding day and thank you to those of you who have allowed us to consistently grow to know you as friends, even after all this time. We love to keep in touch with you on a personal level, as we do on facebook, and by grabbing dinner or watching a live show every once and a while... you know who you are ;)

You are what keeps us going; what keeps us inspired; what keeps us wanting to come back for more, year after year; and the reason why we have been in business and ecstatic about it, for over 6 years! 

So, again, thank you for making our 2009 season yet another successful and inspiring one. I have put together a little collage of all of our 2009 couples here... looking through all of the photos to search for the ones here, put a nostalgic tear in my eye :) 

We love you all and see you around soon! 

~ Alice & Josh