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The Loved Up & Awesome Shoot: Colette and Brandon

June 19, 2008

I love these guys! Colette and Brandon are a super awesome couple who aren’t engaged but wanted some great photos of themselves, so they contacted me for what can only be called a Loved Up & Awesome Shoot. Kind of like an engagement session without a ring. It was great!

Brandon is currently a student at the UW Business School, and Colette recently graduated, so our first stop, naturally, was the UW campus. We pretty much had the entire place to ourselves – it was strange seeing the campus so quiet (and the libraries locked up), but it made for some great photos …

After campus, we headed down to Pike Place where Brandon and Colette first got together. I love the story: they were both working at Nordstrom and headed down after work one evening. Colette didn’t realize that Brandon was interested until he asked to buy her a fish … I don’t think he ever bought her a fish, but he did get her a bouquet from the market, and things started to click. They’ve been inseparable ever since, and the market is still one of their favorite places to hang out together.

I think Colette was a little embarrassed asking me to take this photo – but it turned out to be one of my favorites! It is, after all, a very cute piggy, and what would Pike’s Place Market be without its perfect little mascot?

We were playing chase with the sun all evening, but I think we finally caught it here … I love that you can see the market sign in the background.

We came across these strange saddle seats on a wall off Post Alley – it was too good a posing opportunity to pass up!

And this little bench reminded me of Paris for some reason …

I suggested to Colette that she hang off the railings for this shot – I was totally unprepared for her Spiderman style door-scaling moves, it was amazing!

We ended with a few simple couple portraits by the Pink Door, and headed our separate ways. Thank you both for a really enjoyable session, and I hope you like your teasers!

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Colette - Kate – the photos are awesome! They are SO beyond our expectations! I have to say, the saddle seat pictures turned out to be one of my favorites – they’re so much fun and really capture who we are The photo where we are walking out of the underground is amazing as well. It reminds me of the New York underground – very urban and cool.

I am really, really looking forward to the rest of the pictures now! I can’t wait to share them with our family and friends. Thanks again for such a fantastic experience!

Colette - P.S. “Loved Up and Awesome” – I can’t think of a better title for a non-engagement shoot!

Kate - Thank you Colette – I am so happy you like your photos There are more of the saddle seat ones coming on your CD, it was so hard choosing my favorites, they were really funny! Thanks for being such a great couple to work with!

jenny gg - great photos as always – i especially love the silhouette in the alley – her heels look so amazing.

Corey - I ADORE your monkier for this session Kate, perfect!

This session is so much fun and full of awesomeness! I think my fav is definately the one with the sunset + the market sign. Bravo!

Brandon - Kate-The photos are perfect! I don’t think they could have been any better. I know Colette and I will love the rest once we get them. Thank you again!

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