Category Archives: ::Personal::

BEST OF 2011 :: {Washington & Oregon Photographer}

2011 was another amazing year!  I am so grateful to each and every one of you ~ Thank you for allowing me to document your special moments. Thank you for the laughs, the tears, the honest emotions that make me love my job even more. You treated me as a friend and not just the [...]

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Jenny W. - Wow. What an amazing year. You’ve captured so many special moments…I can’t choose a favorite! I love so many of these!! BEAUTIFUL!

Kristen - Breathtaking as usual! You are such an inspiration.

Shawna - Beautiful work, love looking at all the wonderful work that you do

Haley - Your work is stunning. Every image is unique and genuine!! I LOVE the little guy picking his nose! Cracked me up!!

Sara - So beautiful, your work is inspiring. Do you offer classes? I would love to learn from you! Thank you for posting!

Rayleigh Leavitt - Fantastic!!!! Your work is amazing and very inspiring to me! I’d love to be a fly on the wall during one of your shoots!

carla - Oh gosh, heidi! HOW do you do it? I keep exclaiming to my husband, ” I just don’t get it! EVERY SINGLE PICTURE is a work of art!” I seriously wonder how long it will take me to bring my average of great pictures per shoot up to where yours is. You are a gifted photographer and the Lord has really blessed you with the ability to see beauty in every moment and share it with the rest of us. Blessings for 2012. Thanks for sharing!

Hannah Whalen - Pick one favorite? This whole year has been my favorite! You have never ceased to delight with vibrant, magical photos that bring divine pause into every day so I can gasp and say, “Wow, God.” You are spectacular.

Phyllis R. - So thankful for all the moments that will be forever remembered in the photos you took of our family this year! So thankful you are not only a photographer, but a friend to all of us whose lives you have touched. Wishing you blessings and many happy photo shoots in the coming year!

Wendy - These leave me speechless….you have such an amazing talent. Can’t wait to see what you create in 2012!

Give & Let Give.

I recently experienced the feeling of how great giving truly is. This is just a small thing, but I thought I’d share my little story… Last month I was out running errands by myself while my husband kept the kids. It was about lunch time so I thought I’d stop in at a “fast food” [...]

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Wendy - Merry Christmas to you Heidi. You are a genuine and kind hearted soul. Thank you for the inspiration.

Brooke Ashley Photography - That’s wonderful Heidi, I love that :) That’s what it’s all about right! Beautiful shots too. Happy New Year, hope it’s a beautiful year for you.

Thankful.

Early morning I lye in bed and scribble my thoughts down, before they scatter away from me. So here you go, a short rambling of sorts… Today I am reflecting on everything I have to be thankful for. I am blessed with a beautiful, healthy family. I have true friends & loving people who support [...]

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Heather Stockett - So warming and beautiful.

I love reading your blog and looking at your beautiful photos!

Me & Mine :: 2011 {Washington Family Photographer}

So last weekend we attempted to take our own family photos. It was a trying, but I think overall, a successful time. Anyone watching us probably thought we were lunatics, haha! I couldn’t find my remote so I was up and down with the self timer. The girls had good bribes ~ sparkly crowns and [...]

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Chantell Wilsey - These are all beautifully captured moments! Can’t wait for our session next weekend!

Jen Stafford - These are so darn cute. What a beautiful family you have. Fun, fun, fun!!

Stephanie – p e t a l o s - Super cute!! I bet its so much fun having a house full of kids, especially girls :)

Tara Thackeray - This is so Awesome Heidi!! way to go with the self-made family photos!! I might have to give it a try!! I love everything about this post!! The colors you chose are perfect!! and gotta love the dollar store giant lollypops–definitely makes for happy kids:)

Dreama - This is SO creative! I had my first experience with a selftimer recently. I too had to position and the run back into the group shot. It was fun though!

You did a great job!

Prairie - LOVE LOVE LOVE!

Hannah - Love, love, love these photos! I cannot believe how grown the girls look in these photos! Such a beautiful family! And very hot couple shot!!! I hope I am on the list for a Christmas card. :-)

:: My Crazies ::

So I still desperately need to set up a time to take my own babies portraits this season, AND I WILL, I have their outfits, and fun ideas for them….. but for now here is a look inside our everyday, wild life. Yesterday we set up “Big Girl Beds” for the twins and Lainey got [...]

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jessica - ADORABLE!!!! Eeek, love it!

Kiernan - These pictures are amazingly well done and so so cute. They make me so happy!!

britney - BEYOND ADORABLE!!!!!! <3 <3 <3

Emily - SO precious! :D

Abstract. Paused. Blurred. Noticed.

Walked the city. Stayed in the city. The noise. The silence. Noticed. The abstract view. My view. Paused snapshots. Purposefully blurred memories. Much Love & Happiness to you. ~Heidi    

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:: Wonder ::

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.  ~Albert Einstein A day at the Oregon Zoo. Enjoy the moments.

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Chelsey - Fascinating! Just such beautiful, crisp, and creative photos!

::Lainey, Reese, & Brooklyn :: {Washington, Children’s Lifestyle Photographer}

What was this? It couldn’t be! Was that called sunshine?? Yesterday it happened. It came in nice & bright filling up the corners of the house with light, pointing out all of the cobwebs and fingerprints on my window glass. Proving to me that I had to take these girls of mine & flee from [...]

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Brooke - What a bunch of little cuties! I love these:)

caroline - Absolutely gorgeous photos! What beautiful memories…If they were mine, I’d plaster my walls with them as well.

Shelly Davignon - Adorable!

Lo - So much to say about these- First off, you forgot to add the white chocolate mocha to your cinnamon dulce :) You’ll have to try it next time. When did Lainey grow up? I love the one of the twins following her in a line, I’m sure they will always look up to her! And my favorite is the log picture with Brook sitting on the sand and Reese and Lainey laughing. So cute!

crave photography - There are really beautiful, real, candid images.

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