Janet’s next travel special will be August 16-20th, covering several beautiful and scenic locations in Oregon:
Lake of the Woods (by Klamath Falls) — One of Outside Magazine’s “Perfect 10″ family travel destinations
The unparalleled beauty of Crater Lake (only one Crater Lake session left, 10 AM on Monday the 18th.)
Ashland (home of the Shakespeare Festival)
(photographs courtesy Ashland Chamber of Commerce)
Janet will be available to photograph your family, pregnant belly, or baby in Orange County, California July 17th, 19th and 20th . One hour sessions with unlimited exposures are $450. Add $200 per additional hour. Standard travel special rules apply, and there are still 2 slots available. Hope to see you there.
Our next travel special is coming up soon. Janet will be in Cape Meares, Oregon June 27th-30th. Take advantage of this beautiful location and have a fun filled session with Janet!
Hurry! Janet will be in Anchorage, Alaska doing Alaska location portraits through June 7th! For information on how travel specials work, see our former post here.
Even getting here is beautiful
You in your kyak here
Join me for one or two of the final Kentucky portraits.
$450 each for one hour including unlimited exposures and a private website.
Still available on Friday May 16th
10AM – Overlooking the rolling glow-green hills surrounding Louisville.
5PM- An Hour at the Churchill Downs. Overlooking the track from a private box, surrounded by manicured grounds or the stables.
Book today for a sure bet!
In case you haven’t been obsessively checking the “Travel & Local Specials” section of our website (and why not? 
) Janet will be doing sessions on location in Louisville, Kentucky, May 8 through the 16th. There are still a few openings, but contact us ASAP to schedule a session (before she gets on the plane!)
Other current and upcoming specials:
Mother’s Day album special: Book by Mother’s Day (May 11) and receive 20% off an Uno-style coffee table book or coffee table album.
June 2-7: Portraits with Janet in Anchorage, Alaska
All of June: In honor of Pride month, LGBT/poly individuals and families receive 20% off sessions with Portrait Associate Jane P. (check out her portfolio under “Associates & Design” on the main website.) Weekend sessions are available, except the day of the parade (but if you find her there, I’m sure she’ll have a camera handy!). Portraits are in-studio and immediate environs only.
Sipping fine champagne on the beaches of Nantucket. Sunset made to order. Five adult girls indulge in giggles and cameras- just like 22 years earlier living together, traveling and playing at being professional photographers. Claudia Kronenberg and I have emerged from RIT and our year photographing abroad as successful photographers on different coasts. Annie Wiswal Widger’s creation of Gentle Thunder Farms is an equestrian Shangri-La. With her big-heart humor, Annie leads trial rides and boards/owns 20 horses. She also runs a gift shop with all things equestrian. Both Anne Sarsfield Morton and Laura Zeffer have found their personal peace through meditation and self-awareness. Anne occasionally teaches meditation after years of running an on-line fine art gallery featuring her fellow Vermont artists. Laura meditates under the guidance of the late world-renown guru for peace, Sri Chin moi. Laura and I both live in Seattle now so get to run and swim together.
Anne, Annie, Laura, Claudia
Five years until our next official reunion, we College and Europe-traveling friends are happily bonded for life.
A formula for wedding photography disaster? Men in black tuxes, women in long dresses, outside on a 107 degree day? Not so. After 15 years of dating, Jenny Tang and Luan Li were determined to have a fabulous wedding day. As temps rose, these folks kept their cool; attitude, that is. Not a complaint was heard. Playful natures intact, Jenny, Luan, 14 attendants and family showed their true colors, even inside of damp clothing. Spirits were NOT dampened though, and I can’t remember when I last experienced this much fun at a wedding. And I’ve been to many a fun wedding!
Green Valley Ranch was also fabulous, from modern Mediterranean poolside to soothing main lobby, to generous balconied suite. Even hallways and side entrances were designed as if with photography in mind. And my God, the food. Eating is often a quick experience for me while working. Even so I couldn’t help but enjoy the steak cooked to perfection, the potato tower light and dramatic in presentation, but the lobster was the highlight. Having lobster served atop it shell made the dinning experience all the more divine.
Good taste was part of not only food, but most of all, in choice of friends. The wedding party clearly loves this couple and showed it every minute of this memorable wedding day.
Upcoming Travel & Local Specials are now listed on the “Travel & Local Specials” section of the website.
When life takes me on an adventure, I want you to come too! Take advantage by benefiting from the “no cancellation fee” policy* and no travel expenses. Hey, I’m already going to be there anyway! Find future destination sessions listed on the website under “Travel & Local Specials” section.
Find Future Local Events listed on the “Specials” calendar too.
Investment
The cost is the same as our local options. You might choose a one hour session with unlimited exposures for $450, or a two hour for $650. For a complete menu of options see “Cost” on the website then select your desired category: Wedding, Engagement, or Portrait.
Let me capture your extraordinary life.
*Destination Photography Details:
Weather is unpredictable, so if our session is canceled 2 to 24 hours prior because of rain, snow, hurricane or other weather phenomenon, there is no cancellation fee. Choose to have all money refunded or applied to a future session. Rescheduled sessions may need to take place in Seattle. Cancellations made within 20 days prior to the scheduled session incur a $50 non-refundable fee. Cancellations made within 30-21 days prior to the scheduled session incur a $50 non-refundable fee, but can be applied to a session within 6 months. If canceled 30 or more days in advance, all money is refundable.
I’m not sure who had more fun at this 3 hour Las Vegas engagement session:
the wild-about-you couple, or the wild-about-both-of-you photographer.
Here are a few samples of the Gehrke’s Coffee Table Album. They had glorious weather for their elegant yet natural wedding at Alderbrook Resort on Hood Canal. This is a unique venue for those dreaming of a destination within a simple drive. Party with your friends and family all weekend, or all week for that matter. Indulge in the Spa! Your get-away vehicle can be a float plane, and your wedding shoes, either something delicate and gorgeous, or rugged Wellington Boots for a trek into the tide pools!
I put in a couple of single shots too, since this presentation is small and was designed to be a 10×15 Coffee Table Album.
We custom design each album in-studio to keep the design personal and exactly how we (and of course YOU) want it.
Admittedly, I like indulging in pampering as much as the next person, like going to the spa at Alderbrook Resort. But often I want to be outside all day. Then I care less about the accommodations than the surrounding landscape. On vacations like these I don’t need a spa to apply toenail polish when toes are propelling forward my hiking boots. (Not that having pretty feet at the end of the day hurts either!)
Perfect for outdoor-centered vacations, Forest Service Cabins provide cozy shelter, complete with an equipped kitchen. And boy is the price right!
Kerry McKean and Marcela Touskova invited us to join them Thanksgiving weekend at Hamma Hamma Cabin near Hood Canal. I was excited by the possibilities. Bonding between our 3 adventuresome girls, introducing them to new hiking locations, and exploring animal life along the Canal was just the beginning. Little did we know it would snow, making the weekend all the more enchanting. Unprepared without winter attire, I didn’t motivate to shoot, only play in the snow. What is evident in the photos is my appreciation for stopping at Rising Stars to purchase new rubber boots.
This morning we woke up to an enchanting Hoar Frost engulfing Methow Valley, glistening as far as we could see.
Tim and I, along with our 2.5 year old, Ellie, are here to indulge in scenic cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and sledding. We’re staying for the third time at Skalitude, a comfortably rustic cabin in Carlton. The owners are Lindsey and Will, who have 160 acres surrounded on four sides by NFS lands. They groom trails on their property, and often on the adjacent land. This is winter wonderland at its best.
Unlike the truly rustic (but also wonderfully beautiful) Rendezvous hut to hut ski system, Skalitude is barely rustic, and thoughtfully Green. The bamboo floors are heated, and all electricity is from solar panels. While the room and oven heat is from wood, Lindsey and crew take care of stocking the wood, including for the wood-burning sauna. Oooh Ahhh.
To top off the feeling of (better-than) home, Dogs are welcome!!!
Today we’ll be joined by two other families we’ve been getting to know over the past year plus. We all met in Sarah Nishioka’s Music Together class. (Ellie still loves it after nearly two years!) Sarah teaches both at the PNA and Music Center of the Northwest. Both programs are great.
While initially we were terribly disappointed when both couples had to miss the first night, all happens for a reason. I sure do love my husband!
We’ll keep coming back, with or without our dogs, friends, kids, and/or snow. This is a special place.
And yes, Skalitude welcomes weddings.
