Seattle Photgrapher, Desiree Swanson

about that pesky sun

Want to know a secret about me?

I don't like the sun.

For all of you (California transplants) screaming at your computers right now, I offer the following (albeit meager) reasons:

1. I'm from here. And while a sunny day every once in a while can be nice, I like the predictability of living in the soft cloud diffused light that is a Seattle day.

2. I'm fair skinned with light eyes. This means a) I get sunburned just thinking about the sun and b) it makes me squint. Squinting leads to wrinkles. Not interested, thanks!

3. My house faces due west with no protection from the sun during it's hottest hours. Therefore, if it's 75 outside, guaranteed it's 85+ inside. Yuck.

So nope. I don't like the sun.

Oops! I don't know how that slipped in there...

dang it! All right, i guess a little sun is okay...but just for beautiful pictures.

B family | Sammamish Family Photographer

These two

were an absolute delight to photograph. Two polite, sweet, football loving boys.

Thanks guys, for a great morning!

win a FREE session | Issaquah photographer

sneak peek | snoqualmie senior photographer

Isn't she sooo beautiful?!

I think so too. We had a great time bumming around town and ended the session with this amazing tractor parked off the side of the road. Love.

Thanks K, for a great session. Hope you love your pics!

sweet baby micah | sammamish newborn photographer

As a part of my new "Keeping it Real" campaign (more on that later) I'm going to revive this old blog and remember to post session photos here first.

Meet Micah:

He's little, he's cute and he has 2 big sisters that like him quite a lot

 

Speaking of those sisters, they're also quite fond of their Daddy. He's a pretty fun guy himself!

But back to the star of the show. Micah was a bit older than most newborns I meet so his Mama and I had to work a little harder to get the shots we were hoping for. Thankfully, he was very cooperative and slept soundly for approximately 5 minutes so that I could get these

and these...

Although in the interest of full disclosure, we had a little trouble with that shot on the right. I managed to capture a ... how shall i say... 'action' shot a few seconds after that was taken. All of you mama's to boy's feel what i'm saying, yeah? {ahem} Moving right along. We finished out the session with some lovely shots of his beautiful awake eyes

 

and some sweet Mama loving

Thanks Micah, you were an absolute joy to spend the afternoon with!