Friday afternoon I was photographing Tom and Abby’s wedding in The Dalles, Oregon until evening. Right after the wedding we went back to Hood River for the reception and were able to get few photos of the just married couple with Mount Hood in the background. Tom and Abby were excellent to work with. I photographed their engagement session earlier in the spring, so they were quite relaxed and not at all camera shy. The weather was excellent to have an outdoor wedding in the beautiful garden (there were lots of excellent backgrounds for the wedding photos). I’m always excited to see new places to photograph here in the gorgeous Columbia Gorge area with endless photo opportunities. You can see more of the wedding photos if you click on the client access and enter the gallery.

I’ve spend the weekend with America’s next top model and was able to photograph her in two short photo shoots. Well (not officially), she is my daughter Alyx and she always will be my Top Model. It’s not easy to get her excited about a photo shoot and get her in front of the lens. She is a teenager and is way too busy texting and listening to her ipod which leaves very little time for anything else. I have photographed her most of her life; so she is little bored with it even though I’m just warming up. Here are my favorite photos from my top model.

I’m still in middle of wedding book design from my first wedding of the season at the Columbia Gorge hotel. Here is one I’ve just finished. Looks like I’ll be on the water later today to take a break from the editing.

Here is a photo from my Friday photo shoot of a gorgeous condo in Hood River. As a photographer I enjoy photographing people alot, but I also love variety. Anything could be interesting and beautiful from the right perspective.