Category archives: Personal

Oceanside Ecola Hike with a Surprise Proposal | Oregon
Cannon Beach - Cape Disappointment | Oregon

  • Cannon Beach - Cape Disappointment | Oregon

  • I fell in love with Cannon Beach as soon as we parked our camper. First of all- the beach is breathtaking. Giant rocks right off the turquoise ocean, adorable beach cottages covered in cedar shakes, tiny coffee houses, and mountains surrounding us. PLUS our campground had blazing fast wifi AND a hot tub. I was h [...]
La Push | Washington

  • La Push | Washington

  •       In our time on the Olympic Peninsula, nearly everyone we talked to suggested we visit La Push and Cape Flattery. While we didn’t get the chance to visit Cape Flattery (the most northwesterly point of the continental United States), we did spend a day at La Push. La Push [...]
Salt Creek Recreation Area |Washington

  • Salt Creek Recreation Area |Washington

  •   Something really cool to experience on the Pacific Northwest coast is the tidal pools. I’ve seen pictures of starfish and anemones on the rocks at low tide. When inquiring about this, the owner of the Elwha Dam RV Park recommended that we visit the Salt Creek Recreation area. The Salt Creek Recreation Are [...]
Hoh Rainforest - Sol Duc Area |Washington

  • Hoh Rainforest - Sol Duc Area |Washington

  •   While out on the Olympic Peninsula, Josh and I had the chance to meet up with an old high school friend. Shane Welch is an awesome wedding photographer who was in my (Shelley’s) grade at West Chicago High School. We hadn’t seen each other since about ten years ago, but Facebook and Instagram kept all of u [...]

  • Windy Day at Dungeness Spit | Washington

    •   Dungeness Spit is located on the Olympic Peninsula in the town of Sequim. Its a small park that juts far out into the bay. Actually, I say its small, but there is a fair amount of hiking available here. There is a lighthouse at the very tip of Dungeness Spit you can hike to . It’s 10 miles round trip over [...]
Hoh Rainforest Elopement Location Scout at the Hall of Mosses| Washington State

  • Rainy Day at Lake Crescent | Washington

    •       The first day back from Seattle after our engagement session, we decided to have a little look at Lake Crescent. We had heard a few people say really good things, and the photos online looked really pretty, so we figured why not check it out? We started our hike from the Lake Crescent [...]
Camping on Olympic Peninsula | Washington

  • Camping on Olympic Peninsula | Washington

  • As you’ve probably figured out by now, we made it to Washington State! We had a backcountry skiing engagement session planned with our couple Kim and Kevin just outside of Seattle, so we used this time off as an excuse to take our camper along the West Coast. While in Washington, we chose to camp just outside of Ol [...]

  • Asheville-Seattle Cross Country Road Trip

    •   Here it is: the grand voyage. The big trip that I had been looking forward to since this summer. Making a cross country road trip in the middle of the winter may not be everyone’s first choice, but as wedding photographers- its the time we have off. Though we had an engagement session in the Cascade mountains [...]
Birthday Camping in Brevard

  • Birthday Camping in Brevard

  •   I have had a really busy year. But it was nothing like 2014. The past couple of years, we’ve seen fall pass by all too quickly as we sit down at the computer and edit all season. I try to experience fall through pumpkin beers, ciders, and soups, but nothing can replace actually being outside. Getting ou [...]
Camping in the Mojave Desert, Nevada

  • Camping in the Mojave Desert, Nevada

  •   "Damn, I could really go for a Wendy's Frosty right about now." So there we were in the middle of the desert. We had made these plans way in advance but it hadn't fully dawned on us that we were going to be there in the middle of the summer. It was July and the daily temperature was 105°. Pure dry spellbindi [...]