Seattle is a big enough city to always be shooting at different locations. The latest discovery for me was the best garden store I have found in Seattle, nestled in Ballard called Swansons Nursery. Swansons had a koi pond, restaurant/ kitchen called Barn & Field , indoor clean restrooms, and most importantly an amazing indoor plants section. Seattle has many beautiful plant stores but Swansons Nursery has been the biggest selection I have seen in one place. Check out some of the BTS photo’s below:

I was just going though old PDFs and this mock-up that I had emailed the editor with wardrobe credits popped up.  The Paramount Theater was the most fitting place to shoot the 25th Anniversary of the release of Nirvana’s Nevermind album. Seattle magazine wanted to pay tribute by shooting the September fashion feature at the Paramount Theater, which was where Nirvana had the release party for the Nevermind album. Since moving to Seattle I have always wanted to do a grunge shoot. I pulled the coolest 90’s inspired clothing all of which got x-nayed from my line up. The roster of stores & brands that had to be featured in this fashion story took over the editorial. Kind of a bummer for me, but at the end of the day the client was happy and I got to do a Seattle “grunge” type shoot.  My favorite part of shooting was being able to roam around the empty Paramount Theater.

My client Travels Through Images called and asked if I was available to go to Atlanta and help on a music festival shoot. Luckily, I was and had quite a weekend shooting at Atlanta’s Shaky Beats Music Festival. Full disclosure I have a fear of nasty bathrooms at festivals. Gross port-a-potty’s are something I will avoid at any cost. With that said I have avoided music festivals thus far. To my surprise at Shaky Beats the bathroom situation was totally fine. Besides some of the crazy music it was quite fun.

The Bellevue Collection is made up of three parts: Bellevue Square, Lincoln Square, and Bellevue Place. Bellevue Square creates both a fashion forecasting lookbook and magazine which I got to style for Fall 2016. We shot this is the middle of July when fall fashion hadn’t officially arrived and everything was on summer markdown. Challenging but fun times for me. I love shoots like this. After spending a week shopping at Bellevue Square, I was shopped out and knew what was in every store Bellevue Square offered. Below is a behind the scenes of shooting and styling Bellevue Collection along with some of the images used in Bellevue Square.

So much fun to have a fashion shoot on a farm. Bella Luna Farms, located just north of Seattle was a beyond beautiful backdrop for our dreamy bride. From a cute farm house overlooking the animals, to lush gardens. I would totally live on a farm if it looked and felt similar to Bella Luna Farms.

Here is a commercial I styled earlier this year. Girls Night Out for T-bones steakhouse at Red Rock Casino. 11 total talent less than 2 1/2 hours to get them dressed without an assistant. I was running around like a crazy lady, but the job always gets done. Considering how much time I had to pull off the impossible, it looks great.

I had so much fun shooting with photographer Katerina Gkionis. It was the art director, the photographer, and I wandering around Discovery Park (in Seattle, Washington). An all girl skeleton crew made the day short and sweet. Especially since the weather that day was beautiful. It was such a surprise to learn that this shoot ended up being the cover of Weight Watchers May/June 2016 issue.

New work for Rogers! Rogers is a communication/ media company based in Canada.( like a T-Mobile in the US). This particular Roger’s ad campaign was shot by photographer Amos Morgan. We shot in various locations all around Seattle. The billboard below was shot at Kerry Park. As you can see the sky-line view is amazing. I have shot at Kerry Park a few times, and it is one of the best places to capture the iconic Seattle Space Needle view.

Some of my recent work for Columbia Sportswear in store displays are up! This was shot by photograper Ian Coble , on a very cold spring day.

No photoshop here….Seattle based photographer Ian Coble is just really clever and crafty. I knew we were shooting fitness/ activewear but I didn’t expect Ian was going to create levitation photography. As I watched the monitor, my face could not stop smiling. It is really fun creating cool pictures. The models in the air reminded me of The Wachowski Brothers film The Matrix. by creating slow motion stills in the air. I had a ton of fun styling this shoot.

Have you heard of that new show on Lifetime network called Prison Wives Club? I was brought into style these prison wives for this promo shoot. This was shot at Fort Casey State park in Whidbey Island Washington (about 45 minutes from Seattle). These ladies were quite a handful, which is why in show is getting so much press.

I had the pleasure of styling Lisa Hallet of Wear Blue: Run to Remember for Parents Magazine. The magazine was featuring the Wear Blue: Run to Remember Director & Co Founder in Moms of the moment: The 10 Most Influential Millennial Mothers of 2015. (May 2015 issue) After spending the day with Lisa and her kids all I can tell you is she an incredible women and mother. I was amazed with her patience level, positive attitude, and well-behaved children. If you have worked on a kids shoot before you can appreciate when they actually listen to their mom!