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This past weekend I had the wonderful pleasure of shooting Kyra and William’s wedding at the Architectural Heritage Center in Portland.
They were originally going to tie the knot outside in a park in St Johns, but the wonderful Portland weather changed their minds!
This was a beautiful wedding – with just their closest family and friends for the ceremony.
Here are my faves for the day!!
Lauren and Sam!!! Lauren is the daughter of a friend of mine, Debbie, you may remember their engagement shoot a while back!!
They tied the knot at Camas Meadows Golf Club and it was awesome!!!
Thanks Lauren, Sam and Debbie for allowing me to be a part of such an amazing day!
Here are a few of my faves….
We’re deep into wedding season now! I’ve just finished up 3 weddings in 3 days!!!
Quite a few of my weddings this year are as a lead associate for Powers Studios, and many of the images from those weddings are over on their blog.
Yesterday though, I was up at the lovely Bridal Veil Lakes photographing the gorgeous Christy and her new husband Chris!
What a fabulous day!!
Here are a few of my favorites – and congratulations to Christy and Chris, and all the best for a fantastic married future together!
Meet Christy and Chris – my first e-session of the year! These guys are getting married in July, and we’ve been trying to fit in a session in between the rain for a few weeks. Today the weather played nice, and these guys rocked it! Can’t wait to shoot their wedding.
My last wedding for the year – Alicia and Tim! They had an amazing wedding, with a really cool bunch of family and guests. We started at The Nines in downtown Portland for some classy portraits, then we all headed to The Secret Society for the ceremony and party. It’s days like this that I truly love my job – weddings are a passion for me and I enjoy being part of a couple’s happy day, and this one was full of fun, emotion and romance…perfect!
My 2nd photographer for the day was the great Joel Bock – a fantastic photographer and cool to hang with too!
Alicia had her make-up expertly finished by Nicole Wagner – I’ve worked with her on several weddings and she’s always wonderful!
Here are a few of my faves as they came off the cards.
So – I’ve been a bad blogger again. Good reason though, I’ve been in bed sick for over a week with flu. Urgh. Rough.
No more complaining though! On with the good news…
As readers will know – (see post right below this one!) Pindora’s Box is ready for the public, and I’m as giddy as a schoolboy. It’s AWESOME. Mama Shan and I are really happy with the final product, and we think that pin-up photographers will love it. In fact, it’s suitable for other portrait photographers too. Our launch date is November 1st, and we’re ready!
In a week I’ll be heading to Nashville for the NoBS Inferno, where I’ll be speaking to over 100 photographers from around the country. My presentation this year will be a live pin-up shoot! The day before and the day after the Inferno I’ll also be presenting my own ‘Retouching Junction’ workshops with high end retouching on offer.
Next year I’m planning more workshops for photographers, stay tuned for news on that in the New Year.
I’m also deep into rebranding Katchlight here. People often ask ‘why Katchlight’? Well, when I first started out on my photographic adventure I did use my name, Mike Long, but it seems I wasn’t the first Mike Long in the world to take up photography, and someone already nabbed the domain name, so I searched for something that brought to mind photography…they were all taken. Katchlight – (the photographic term is catchlight) came to mind, and I’ve had it ever since. I often think of just being ‘Mike Long Photography’ but I don’t want to get clients confused with the other Mike Long, who also shoots weddings.
So until I can get that domain name, my brand will be Katchlight, and I’m going to be altering the branding over the winter, with new packaging products and maybe a new logo too.
Weddings for next year are booking at a furious pace – so if you, or someone you know, is getting hitched…don’t delay. I have a few select dates still open, but once booked…that’s it!
This week I had a web designer compliment me on my Portland Pin-Ups website, which is high praise indeed. It’s worth mentioning that I am available to design any website you need…with a focus on photographers of course!
That’s it for now – have a great weekend!
As the summer winds down, so do my weddings. Today was the last of mine for the season – a couple in the Autumn, but I’ve got some time off from weddings now to concentrate on the (very soon) arrival of my new baby in a week or so.
Jennifer and Jeff were my last couple then for the summer, and what a great way to finish! A lively wedding party for sure, great people, great fun and a perfect day!’
Ah Laura and Byron – what a great day!! Byron sang to Laura at the alter, and MAN, does he have a voice! Starting off at the Nine’s hotel in Portand for the girls getting ready, we then moved to the tualatin presbyterian church for the ceremony and finally on to the Lake Oswego Country Club for an awesome party!
Many cool images to work through, here are my favorites so far.
Meet Danielle and Chas – an awesome couple who tied the knot last Friday at the Treasury Ballroom, Portland.
Here are a few of my favorites from the day so far:
Meet Lisa and Justin – getting married in November we spent this evening running having fun in the Portland Rose Garden for their engagement session. Enjoy!
