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editorial: geez magazine.

A couple months back I had the honor of doing some photos for Darryl Brown, an amazing graphic designer and stellar skate boarder, who does design work for Geez Magazine.  If you haven’t read the magazine you might pick it up at some point, it’s a really great read.  And the photos are too bad either!  Anyways, Darryl pointed out that a photo from our session for one of the topics is highlighted on Geez’s website.  Check it out! Also worth noting would be that Bryan & Leah, my good photographer friends, are two of our models!

And sorry for the lack of posts lately!  EP has had walking pneumonia, so things have been on hold lately.  More posts to come soon though!

sam & alyssa: oregon engagement.

Having known Sam for a long time now, I was stoked when he and Alyssa contacted me to shoot their wedding this coming summer.  We had a lot of fun around Newberg this last week, enjoying the winter sun and temporary warm weather. Below are a few of my favorite images.

On another note, I’ve joined forces with a couple other wedding photographers in town to create a group-blog called Oregon Wedding Photographer Coalition. We’ll all be linking posts and other fun stuff to the blog, so please stop by, drop a comment, and take a look at what we’re all doing!

March 7, 2010 - 8:19 pm Aunt Debby - This are some beautiful pictures that really show off not only your personalities a little but the love is very evident in your eyes. I am so happy for the 2 of you and can't wait for the wedding!

March 3, 2010 - 11:02 pm Heather Espana - Sweet, Joel! I love seeing Newberg scenes from different perspectives like this. I've been wanting to shoot with those oil cans for a long time. Nicely done!

February 26, 2010 - 1:37 pm Bryan Rupp - Beautiful Session Joel, lots of awesome shots! Hard for me to pick a favorite, but I think the third one down on the right is it. Dood where is this water tower or whatever that large metal round thing is?

signs of spring: winter thaw.

I had way too much fun with Espen, playing in the late afternoon sun yesterday.  The best part about it was when we both took our cameras out (he got a little digital camera for his birthday) and were photographing the flowers together.  At one point he got fed up with his little camera and told me he wanted to take a photo with my camera (the Canon 1Ds Mark II), and so the last photo on this page was taken by Espen.  I held the camera off the ground, he gripped it, looked through the view finder, framed the shot, and pushed the shutter button.  Way to go EP!  Hope you were all able to enjoy the sun while it lasted.

foreshadow: oregon engagement.

I had the treat today to utilize the amazing warmth and sunlight for my friends’ (Sam & Alyssa) engagement session.  We tromped around Newberg laughing and snapping shots.  More to come soon!

February 20, 2010 - 1:37 am Mary Lou Keeran - Joel, very nice. I'm anxious to see more! Mary Lou

design time: wedding albums…and more albums.

That’s about all I’ve been working on the last couple days!  Here’s a couple spreads from Thomas & Abigail’s wedding, which if you didn’t catch their photos the first time around you can right here.  I have to say, Fundy Album Builder is probably the best investment I’ve made for album design!  If you’re a photographer and looking to save some time and still have custom options at your creative disposal, check them out.  I’m now getting 20-30 page albums done in around 1-2 hours.  It’s a beautiful thing!

February 23, 2010 - 6:45 pm Madison - These are such fun pictures!!!

February 17, 2010 - 10:18 pm Bryan Rupp - 2 Posts in one day Joel! This is getting crizazy! Great looking album though