Portrait • Arabica Lounge • Seattle, WA

A friend of mine had her Flora & Fauna themed birthday party at (my favorite coffee shop and brunch spot) Arabica Lounge. Here is a shot I took with my iPhone at the "photo booth" set up. Sasha looks gorgeous! Isn't that yummy window lighting just radiant?

Foodie Friday • Arabica Lounge • Seattle, WA Photographer

As many of you may know, Seattle is known for its coffee so todays post is paying tribute to one of my favorite little coffee shops nestled in the heart of Capitol Hill. Arabica Lounge not only sells fantastic coffee from Stumptown Coffee but they always impress me with their artistic presentation.

  

Arabica serves a scrumptious variety of homemade foods and pastries. You can check out their full menu here and their "booze" menu here. A few of my favorites are the Smoked Salmon Toast, Bacon Egg & Cream Cheese Crepe, Soldier Eggs with Proscuitto, Yogurt with Granola, and the Luchador Cake although you really can't go wrong with anything on the menu. They use the freshest ingredients and offer many items that are gluten free and vegan. 

Soldier Eggs

 Bacon, Egg, Cream Cheese and Onion Crepe

  Smoked Salmon, Cream Cheese, Sun-dried Tomato & Caper Toast

 Luchador Cake (Almond and Orange) gluten free and heavenly

Meringue and Pistachio Toffee

A really nice touch to the eclectic atmosphere is the grand piano that often gets played by customers, otherwise vinyl sings through the speakers.

 

Arabica hosts many events in the evening as well. Check out what is happening now under their "events" tab here.

Inspiration

For the past two days I have been taking an online class through CreativeLIVE with Jasmine Star. She is a wedding photographer I greatly admire and I could not have been more inspired by her class. I wanted to share a few of my favorite quotes with you from the past two days. Many are wise words to live by even not in a photography context. Thank you Jasmine Star!

"Schedule time to help others."
"Be personal within social media. Talk back!"
"Queet, a quote tweet."
"If you're not uncomfortable, you're not working hard enough."
"Out shoot, out run, out hustle."
"Luck is when preparation meets opportunity."
"Have someone believe in you if you don't believe in yourself."
"If you don't got the funk, don't fake the funk. They will smell it."
"Put out what you want to get back. You will get clients that want you, for you."
"My goal for your engagement session is for you to have a good time, my job is to make you look good."
"It's my job to make every client, look, feel and KNOW they are beautiful."
"I am like a party in a box."
"Under promise and Over deliver."

You can read many more of my favorites on my twitter: JessKeenerPhoto and if you search for #JasmineLIVE you can read what others thought as well.

Since every post is better with photographs, although unrelated, here are two delicious things I had a taste of recently.

Vivace coffee Icecream with vanilla bean caramel in a homemade waffle cone
from Molly Moon's.         

Mocha from Arabica Lounge