Angelica & Shawn in Portland, Oregon


This is the week of many many engagement sessions! Yesterday I had the awesome opportunity to fly to Portland just to shoot Angelica and Shawn's engagement session. We all lucked out--it was a gorgeous, warm day--apparently not the norm in Portland this time of year. One of the things I am so thankful for about my job is that I am lucky enough to work with many couples that I would be friends with anyway. I don't always get to know everyone as well as I'd like, but I do try to get to know as many as possible outside of just shooting. I also find that it is much more fun on the wedding day if we've already worked together on something like an engagement session because when I show up at the wedding, I'm just another friend hanging around.

Angelica and Shawn, in addition to being fantastic to shoot were also hospitable enough to take me to a really cool Latin restaurant where they proved themselves to be savvy wine drinkers and food tasters. It was so much fun to go to dinner with them!

I'm going to post more shots of them than usual because it was cool to shoot in Portland :)

Shawn has a great condo in a really good part of Portland. There's lots of funky, urban stuff around and great spots to shoot:







Angelica & Shawn have a REALLY cute dog named Chickie. You can't see it in this photo, but Chickie's shirt says "Always a Bridesmaid". Too funny!



I didn't know this but Portland seems to be well known for its many bridges:











We also walked around the railroad station:







this one spot had the most beautiful light, but we were trespassing so we got kicked out :(



So we gave it up and went to dinner, but I couldn't resist shooting a little bit in the restaurant when we were done:



thanks so much for a great day in Portland & you're on for sushi next time you are in town!

jessica claire wedding photography

Posted: Wed - April 26, 2006 at 10:02 PM          

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