by Julie | Jun 5, 2023 | Seniors
This was such a fun adventure session with A! It combined a few things she loves: rock climbing these cliffs at Lewis & Clark Park east of Portland, and this amazing fairy-style dress that also matched her hair. It had a beautiful twirl, so of course we had to...
by Julie | Feb 28, 2022 | Creative & Fine Art
MUA: Emily Models: Zoe, Miranda Location: My garage! A few months after our creative flower portrait session, Emily and Zoe wanted to do a session with colorful body paint! Zoe’s friend Miranda joined too. I contributed gels again to make some really cool...
by Julie | Oct 30, 2021 | Creative & Fine Art
I wanted to create some portraits with flowers and petals. Zoe and Emily and I worked together and made some beautiful, colorful images! Model: Zoe Carina Makeup artist: Emily Claire I used three lights: the main light overhead, a hair/rim light with a grid behind and...
by Julie | May 28, 2021 | Creative & Fine Art
I had a vision early in 2021 about a woman in a curtain of flowers. Now, sometimes I let my visions just kind of stay there in my head, but I’ve been trying to make them happen in real life more often. So I reached out to my brilliant florist friend Alana of...
by Julie | Mar 3, 2021 | Creative & Fine Art
A few years ago, I had an idea about creating a black milk bath with floating candles. Every once in awhile I would try to figure out the logistics of it, but always gave up. Earlier this year, I was determined to make it happen. Partly because I found Roxanne, a...
by Julie | Apr 21, 2020 | Creative & Fine Art, Personal Projects
A book can shape you, infuriate you, make you laugh, make you think, change your life. Who hasn’t gotten lost in a good book? Who hasn’t wished that they could be engulfed in their favorite novel? Who hasn’t dreamed about forgetting everything else and just reading...
by Julie | Jul 28, 2019 | Creative & Fine Art
I. Love. This. Photo. It might be one that I’m the most proud of. Yes, because it’s beautiful, and because it’s a big pile of books. (I love books.) But the thing about this photo is that I really had to fight to create it. I had the idea for it...
by Julie | Feb 21, 2017 | Seniors
When I worked with Abbi, she wanted to do some creative photos, not standard boring headshots. I ended up coming up with a whole list of at least ten things involving writing and books, of which maybe two or three made it into the session. Thankfully, she was willing...
by Julie | Jul 20, 2015 | Headshots
One warm summer afternoon, my mom agreed to model for me. She is a yoga instructor and is in fantastic shape. I wanted to do some yoga photography, but with some dramatic lighting and outdoors. We were on one of the side trails of Mt Tabor and I had my lightstand and...
