Instagram • Seattle, WA

Much of the work I've been doing lately has been for companies like Google and Starbucks, and I am unable to share those photos with you. Since I am more and more impressed with how advanced our phone cameras are becoming, this post will focus on photos from Instagram, an iPhone app that I love. Instagram allows you to share your photos with a community of "followers" and can link to your social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare. The app lets you selectively focus your photos as well as add fun filters. So many companies have caught on to the Instagram trend and you can now turn your Instagram images into postcards (Postagram), prints (Prinstagram), canvas prints (Canvaspop), albums (Blurb) and even magnets (Stickygram)!

Here are a set of magnets I ordered from Stickygram. Excellent quality, matte finish.

Samples of some photos I took lately with Instagram are pictured below.

 You may remember Milla from the portrait session I did last December. Check it out here!

 Delicious Soldier Eggs at Arabica Lounge

Luther Burbank Park

The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival • Mount Vernon, WA

This past weekend we took a little road trip to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival in Mount Vernon, WA. Although there are many things to see and do, we only had time to see the Roozengarrde Garden which was absolutely beautiful. So many rows of tulips and such a variety of species. As we got closer to the garden, we chose the "Best Rd." to get there.

 Field of daffodils on the way to the tulip garden.

 Even the port-a-potties had tulips painted on them!

Many many people came to see the tulips!

I loved the lone yellow tulip with a little red spot like the red tulips in the background.

 Long shadows on a warm sunny day. It's as if I was in the south again.

GLEE Flash Mob 2012 • Seattle, WA

It's been a year since I photographed my first flash mob! This past weekend the 3rd annual GLEE Flash Mob occurred on a gorgeous sunny Saturday afternoon in Seattle. An estimated 850 dancers came together to perform the spectacular choreography by Beth Meberg and Jared Jones. A special thanks to Egan Orion for organizing everything and to Bobby Bonsey for starting this sensation with him 3 years ago. Spoiler alert... congratulations to Emily and Tim on their engagement!

The Blue trees at the Westlake Center, painted by Konstantin Dimopoulos to raise       awareness for the importance of trees, made for a neat backdrop at the Westlake performance.

The incredibly sweet proposal had me crying and most all of the spectators as well. 

So heartfelt!

As a little bonus, I wanted to share this video of Egan speaking at a TED talk about the history of flash mobs in Seattle. His contribution has made Seattle flash mobs so popular and he explains the importance of them in society as well. 

Very interesting and worth a watch!