I first met Chloe, founder of Gather Seattle in the summer of 2017. I had reached out about photographing an event at Matthews Winery, and she took me up on it. It was an absolute dream. I got to capture a beautiful farm to table lunch and participate in inspired conversations alongside other Seattle creative […]

Gather Seattle Podcast Recordings

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Lifestyle, Photography

I first met Chloe, founder of Gather Seattle in the summer of 2017. I had reached out about photographing an event at Matthews Winery, and she took me up on it. It was an absolute dream. I got to capture a beautiful farm to table lunch and participate in inspired conversations alongside other Seattle creative […]

Gather Seattle Podcast Recordings

Beauty and Fun with Ann Lundquist Design

Spent a style-filled weekend photographing work by Seattle interior designer Ann Lundquist. We took some “after” shots of several of her commercial and residential projects and then captured her beautiful home in Medina. I wanted to be sure to reflect the full scope of the rooms as well as all the sweet details. Ann has […]

Lifestyle

Food, Lifestyle, Photography

If you know me you know that I’ve got a lot of passions and interests but at the highest level, it’s all about experiences for me.  One of the biggest and most dear to me is the concept of coming together over a beautiful meal with awesome people in an amazing space to share ideas. […]

Farm to Table Lunch with Gather Seattle at Matthews Winery

Lelia Portraits – Kirkland

I’ve known Lelia for almost 10 years.  What’s super fun to me about this particular shoot is that we’ve worked together at 2 different jobs and seen each other’s careers go every which way but I would venture to say that neither of us ever expected to be where we find ourselves now and in […]

Portraits

Fun Stuff

Almost finished with a super fun month-long project that the company I work for, CreativeLive, kicked off for February.  It’s called 28 to Make!  28 days of simple creative exercises that take 20 min or less and really spark your imagination.  I’ve had so much fun with this and even snagged some new tools (ink & […]

Creative Project: 28 to Make

Ace Hotel

If you know me you know that I am a sucker for a carefully crafted experience.  A couple of months ago I had one such experience at NY’s Ace Hotel.  I would consider myself a fairly seasoned traveler who has had the pleasure of some nice stays and the discomfort of some poor choices.  Walking […]

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Hi everyone!  I figure it’s about time to start sharing some tips!  I’ve been really impressed with the wide variety of tools out there to make it easy for everyone to create swanky looking images with nice design elements.  I use them on my Instagram, on the blog, Pinterest, and to help put presentations together. […]

5 Handy Tools to Help you Edit and Lay out your images

a new look

I have the wonderful Kinsey Gross to thank for my shiny new logo for danielle motif!  She nailed everything I was after.  Thank you Kinsey!!  

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