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Bellevue Botanical Gardens | Aris’s Senior Portraits

Today is an especially rainy, dreary Monday, so I want to take a step back in time to this summer and one lovely, dreamy, and drawn-out evening where the twilight seemed to last forever. This was when we met Aris at the Bellevue Botanical Gardens for her senior portrait photography session. Aris is a student at Newport High School (as was I, and my sisters) and her mom was so kind as to bid on a photography package I put up for auction to benefit Newport’s Orchestra, where my youngest sister plays the violin.

Aris told us she was photo-shy and a tomboy, but she was absolutely gorgeous in front of the camera, and having been one myself, I like tomboys the best! We had a great time wandering around the gardens as the evening wore on and on, and I love how her portraits turned out. Right now, they remind me just how wonderful a summer evening can be. Enjoy!

Bellevue botanical gardens senior portrait photographerSenior portrait photography in Bellevue botanical gardens

Seattle portrait photographer Persimmon Images take senior portraits in BellevueBellevue Washington Senior Portrait photography

Modern contemporary senior portrait photography for Seattle and Bellevue Washington

Lavender blossoms at Bellevue Botanical GardenFun senior portraits with lavendar flowers in bellevue

Casual contemporary senior portraiture in the Bellevue Botanical garden

Artistic senior portrait photography by Seattle and Bellevue photographers at Persimmon Images

Senior Portrait photography details of ripped jeans and braceletsCasual senior portraits at Bellevue Botanical Gardens

Artistic black and white senior portrait photographs in Bellevue, Washington

Modern black and white senior portraits in an artistic composition by Seattle photographers Persimmon ImagesCasual, fun senior portrait photography by Persimmon Images

Persimmon Images senior portrait photographers capture high school student posing in Bellevue Botanical Garden at sunset

Casual summer senior portrait leaning against gateComfortable, natural senior portrait photography by Persimmon Images for Seattle and Bellevue Washington

Newport High School senior letterman

Aerial senior portrait photography of Newport Highschool Senior in Bellevue Washington by Seattle portrait photographersFun, casual senior photography lying in the grass at sunset

Artistic senior portrait photography at Bellevue Botanical GardensArtistic black and white contemporary senior portrait photography

Seattle Senior Portraits at the Olympic Sculpture Park | Kaitlyn

I just want to hang on to the beautiful summer weather we had this Monday and Tuesday, but it seems to be slipping away into rain (already?!?). We did have a lovely, if short, summer this year… and here’s a nice photo session to remind me (and you) what it was like some days in Seattle.

Justin and I took high school senior portrait photographs of the lovely Kaitlyn at the Olympic Sculpture Park in downtown Seattle. That place has so many locations to shoot that it’s still giving me ideas for things to try, even though I’ve had sessions there at least five times in the last year.

Kaitlyn was a gem to work with and made our jobs as photographers ridiculously easy… and fun. I’m starting to really love senior portrait sessions! I hope to do a lot more in 2011.

Thanks, Kaitlyn! You were a rockstar. And your hair is amazing.

Seattle senior portraits at the Olympic Sculpture ParkSenior portraits during the evening in Seattle at the sculpture park

Olympic Sculpture Park Senior Portrait ideas

Seattle contemporary senior portrait outdoors downtown olympic sculpture parkSeattle professional senior portrait photographer modern colorful photographs

Senior portrait photograph with the cloud garden sculpture at the Olympic Sculpture Park

Funny Seattle senior photographer at the Olympic Sculpture ParkSexy senior portrait in black and white by Seattle photographer Persimmon Images

Contemporary senior portraits in Seattle at the Olympic Sculpture Park

Modern, evocative senior portrait photography by Seattle photographer Kat Speyer of Persimmon ImagesColorful portraiture for high school seniors in Seattle

High school senior portrait photography by Persimmon Images at the Olympic Sculpture Park

Olympic Sculpture Park high school senior portrait photography in black and white

Seattle Senior Portrait on downtown railroad tracksModern, colorful photography of high school senior by photographers at Persimmon Images

Downtown Seattle professional senior portrait photographer captures this model at the Olympic Sculpture Park

Senior Portrait at sunset in Seattle on Elliot BayModern senior portraiture in Seattle, Washington on the beach

Natural senior portrait by photographer Kat Speyer

Senior portrait yearbook headshot in SeattleSenior portrait photography at the beach on Elliot Bay in Seattle

Senior Portrait Teaser at the Bellevue Botanical Gardens | Aris @ Sunset

What? Yes! Another teaser! This one from a senior portrait session on Monday at the botanical gardens in Bellevue, Washington. Isn’t Aris pretty? She’s graduating from my high school alma mater… 11 years after I did. (Oh my God, has it been that long??)

Bellevue Botanical Gardens high school senior portrait photography of a Newport High School senior at sunset

We’re headed to Glacier National Park tomorrow morning for our annual trip. This year there’s two big differences from the normal GNP vacation: 1) We’re shooting a wedding! and 2) We’re celebrating our two-year wedding anniversary in Polebridge, where we were married! We’ll be out tomorrow through Labor Day, but as someone saw fit to install satellite internet at our cabin (sacrilege!), it won’t be a complete dry spell here. Ciao!

Senior Photos for Seattle 2010 Grads!

I have so many photos to share, and so many things on my plate. It’s frustrating, but a good kind of frustration… most of my (positive) energy is going into growing my business. I was made for this!

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing three weddings, some boudoir, a portrait shoot, and some other photo miscellaney. It’s been a busy fall, and things are just getting started at chez Persimmon. For a peek at what’s to come, here’s an ad I just submitted to a Bellevue Catholic school newspaper…

An ad for Seattle senior portrait photography by Persimmon Images

Seattle and Bellevue Washington 2010 Senior Portrait Photography

(Oh, sweet irony… the lovely, fresh-faced model in the photograph– fellow Seattle photographer Heather Pearce– is actually older than I, and most certainly not a HS senior. But this photo was so perfect I couldn’t NOT use it!)

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