You two are just so fun together! I love your story and it was such an honor to photograph your engagement pictures!! Not to mention, I am delighted that we were able to track down some snow!! I cannot wait for your wedding this summer.....
Grant + Anna Blomdahl | Portland Hotel Monaco Wedding
Grant and Anna. Oh my heavens, you two are absolute dynamite. You are PERFECT together. I could not have been more delighted to photograph your wedding. What an honor. Thank you. You love people well as individuals and I am excited to see the impact of your joined forces. You both inspire me and I hope we can be married friends. So much love to you both.
Preparation & Portraits: Hotel Monaco, Portland, OR | Ceremony & Reception Venue: The Witherspoon Event Space
31st page of the 12th chapter
Month twelve of year twenty-fourteen. I am sad to see the year near a close, but it's a different sort of close than that of a good book. There's an emptiness and almost a loneliness that I feel when I finish a good novel—I grow attached to the characters and become familiar with their world. When the remaining pages are few, I begin to read more and more slowly, putting off the ending as long as possible. At the close of a book, I'm not ready to say goodbye to it all; I wish for more.
I feel very differently about the close of a year. Yes, I have been breathlessly caught up in the adventure of it all, entwined with the characters and have become familiar with the rhythm, rises and routines. The cliffhangers of a year have me at the edge of my chair, but at the close of a year, I don't fear the dust that it will soon gather as the thirty-first page of the twelfth chapter conclude.
I simply wake up the next day. I kiss the neck of the man sleeping beside me, pull on a sweater and tiptoe across the chilly kitchen floor to put a kettle on for coffee.
This past year brought pleasure and pain, highlights and shadows, crags and chasms. Each have enriched the story in a unique way—after all, what is a story without contrast? 'Tis monotony. A succession of bland interactions; a drone, unvaried in pitch and tone. With heights and depths there are opportunities to respond and feel, to trust and hope, to wait and see.
Ah yes, I will wait and see, because the conductor has not laid his baton to rest. Whether major or minor the chord, the resolve does not occur without the final wave of his hand, and it has not yet waved. I have peeked ahead to see the final movement of the piece, and am reassured to know that the end is more epic than the interlude.
Addie Burch | Portland Senior Photographer
Girl. You are lovely, remarkable and ever so winsome! Your sweet spirit is so evident in your smile, your laugh and even in the way you carry yourself. Thank you for being a young woman of grace and kindness!
whom i affectionately call, calebabe | Portland Portrait Photographer
I have three brothers and they are each so very different from the other. Meet the youngest of my brothers, Cale, whom I affectionately call, "Calebabe". He's expressive and sensitive and loves the rugged, wild land and culture of the Northwest. He loves the earthy and untamed as well as the elegant and refined.
He constantly inspires me with his gentle love for humanity, despite all its quirks and stains. He is forgiving and forbearing. He is empathetic and perceptive.
