Olivieri Portrait Design: April 2010

Meet Maya Marie

Meet Maya Marie.... say that five time fast. ;)

Maya was a little diva today but she did a great job. I think the whole thing was really boring her .... her is the picture to prove it. ;)

Chad and Ashton

As if I wasn't feeling old already.... I just turned the 3-0 a couple of weeks ago... now my younger brother is getting married this summer! A week ago I had another 'old' moment when I photographed Chad and Ashton's engagement session. I'm so happy for them... they are perfect for each other... I'm excited to finally have a sister after all these years. Congrats Ashton and Chad.

Camella and Stacy

Yesterday we had the honor of photographing Camella and Stacy in their favorite place. I loved hearing the stories and memories they have of Deception Pass State Park....specially the tree without limbs climbing story ;). We explored the whole park... rock climbing and everything.... I was lucky I didn't fall in the ocean on a couple of the set ups. Thanks Cam and Stac for sharing your special place with us, we hope to return!

Sneak Peak for Lana and Evan

Tonight we photographed Evan and Lana. They are planning for a vintage wedding to take place this summer. A little blue vintage dress + a vest and tie + Pioneer Square = a whole lotta fun.

Evan and Lana you ROCK... fighting through the rain and ally rats.... you guys are troopers!!

Love is in the Air!

*Sneak Peak for Brandon and Megan*
This week is packed with engagement sessions. Spring is here and love is in the air! Meet Brandon and Megan, this if from their session that we did tonight. How about this awesome weather? ... more of this please! ;)

Mandi Class of '10

WOW! If you are one of my blog followers you already know that I love Kahlotus, but now I totally LOVE Kahlotus. Meet Mandi! A couple years ago I had the pleasure of photographing Lexi, her sister. Just when I didn’t think that I could possibly love Kahlotus more than I already had… Mandi’s mother called and told me they bought a old building in town. This building was a general store back in the day, complete with a soda pop counter. Also nails were left in the bins, dated beer still on the shelves, and old Kahlotus signs… for a photographer this was like PROP HEAVEN. When they first walked us through it I was on sensory over load. Not to mention an old apartment upstairs that had cool colors and that was half demoed. Actually we did this session last week and the funky green wall is no longer with us. Mandi you truly had a one of kind portrait session. Thanks for sharing this photographer’s dream with Jill and I.

Stefanie and Nick

So really this picture says it all. Nick and Stefanie are graduating from Eastern Washington... and this is how they feel. Yes they feel like they are on a board way musical... just kidding. But seriously dang you guys can jump high. A few weeks ago I got together with Stefanie and Nick to create some knock out graduation announcements.... and do some fun ones of them together... cause why not? ;) Seriously they always make me laugh so hard... they are all giggles.. I love it!

So this is a sample of the front of Nick's card. And the one below is a sample of the inside of Stefanie card.

Congrats you two... now you have to grow up and get a job ;)

Print Competition

Just got back from the Professional Photographers of Washington State Conference. This year I really brought home some trophies that I was so not expecting. This year had some really great work that was judged and were selected to hang in print salon. The beach portrait above is the Perkins family... titled "All to Ourselves" got the high score out of my prints that I entered. It won best of it's category "Best Portrait of a Group" aka Family. Nick Print..."The Piano" did well scoring wise.... he got honorable mention in the category of the "Portrait of a Man" it was also selected by Kodak as a Gallery Award.

I was blow away it got selected out of our state! This is my second one but I didn't see it com'n! ;)