One of Portland’s most prominent and multifaceted law firms, Duffy Kekel also happens to be the working home of my friend Vanessa Usui. I met Vanessa a few years ago while working together with Basic Rights Oregon on a commercial for marriage equality.  So, when Vanessa approached me about shooting DK’s latest round of business portraits, I jumped at the chance. Boasting a seriously talented team of attorneys, with specialties including everything from estate planning to mergers & acquisitions and even retirement planning, Duffy Kekel has been around since the 1930′s, when its founding partners left the logging industry to practice law; the rest, as they say, is history.  Prioritizing small-firm values and personable attorneys as the keys to their successful enterprise, Duffy Kekel is the kind of firm that gives lawyers a very good name.
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Brad and Adam are a fantastic Portland couple who recently came to me with a very special portrait session request. They’ve been together for several years and their commitment to each other couldn’t be more apparent given how warm and comfortable they are together.  It was really such a special experience capturing these two great gents during golden hour on a gorgeous summery spring evening a few weeks back. We started our session with a lovely stroll along the Eastbank waterfront before heading to a nearby SE neighborhood for the tail end of the shoot.  The end results were totally adorable — no surprise — and I couldn’t be more thrilled considering the purpose of their session. Brad and Adam came to me looking for some fresh new portraits to include in their profile as adoptive parents, a process they recently started and couldn’t be more excited to complete.

Brad & Adam are adopting locally, and as part of the process for an open adoption, prospective parents looking to adopt put together a profile highlighting who they are and what kind of parents they hope to be. Working with an agency to help find a right fit with a birth mom looking for the perfect parents for a new little one in need of a loving home and family, Brad & Adam naturally wanted to have new photos taken together to give the birth mother of their future new baby the best impression possible. It is a real honor being able to contribute to Brad & Adam’s pending parenthood, and I just can’t wait to meet the new arrival when he or she finally comes home to the family they’ve been destined for.

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I recently had the pleasure of getting to know and photograph Carol Krigger of Phase 3 Fitness. Carol wanted a couple of fresh new portraits for her website and came to me because we really connected on the philosophy behind having a professional portrait that really looks like YOU! I think a great professional portrait is one of the very best things you can have in your marketing materials to draw in the best clients for your business. Carol is a vibrant and active woman in her “third phase” and she is passionate about giving one-on-one training to women in this stage of life as well, so that they can stay strong and healthy. Carol and I think we captured her glowing personality in this super fun portrait session at the park.

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Family Portrait sessions always bring me joy! But this one was particularly fun. I’ve worked with Jeremy, Stephanie and the kids for a few years now and I think they are the bees knees! First of all, the babies are adorable and secondly Jeremy and Stephanie are such cool people who create a family full of love.
We had a great time running around the park on a beautiful spring morning capturing portraits that will be cherished for a lifetime!

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My little girl is all grown up!! Okay, so Lily isn’t exactly mine, but she was my intern last year and we recently did a photo shoot with her for her senior graduate portraits. We had so much fun galavanting around SE Portland for Lily’s portrait session, popping by some of her favorite neighborhood spots before finally making our way to Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden near Reed College. It was so much fun seeing Lily looking like a young adult even more than she did last year (sniffle She’s graduating next month, finishing up her last year of high school at PCC in their advanced high school courses. Lily is such a great girl, and she’s growing up into a real beautiful young woman; I can’t wait to see what she does in the years to come as an adult! Her family is so great and full of smart, clever people (I did a big family portrait shoot with them last summer), so the odds are certainly in her favor. Congrats, Lily! You’re the best!

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