the summer newsletter is here!

Art of Subtlety's Summer Newsletter is here and hopefully it arrived in your email inboxes on Friday. If it didn't, you can send me an email at artofsubtlety@gmail.com with the subject line "Add me!" and I'll put you on my mailing list.

For now though, you can pop on over to my website and click on the button that says NEWSLETTER. There's a fun giveaway featured as well as a couple new products, my new referral program, and details about a charity event I'm excited to be attending (hopefully I'll see you there)!

Happy reading!

The Kneifel Family & a Herald article :: Seattle Family Photographer

Hello everyone and hello 2012!

Apparently the hope to fill my blog this month with lots of posts hasn't been successful thus far, however with the snow that kept me inside last week I was forced able to sit down and a few posts to give this blog the love it deserves!

The holidays were crazy-busy in the best way possible and I was lucky enough to photograph new clients as well as some I've known for years.  

One of my awesome clients is the Kneifel family and they found me through the Big Brothers Big Sisters auction a couple years ago when they won a photo session gift certificate I had donated. I've photographed them a couple times and every time I see them I get such a warm welcome and have more fun than should be allowed while working. :) 

I was interviewed by Juergen Kneifel for an article he wrote detailing effective ways local business owners have used to attract customers. The article was published in last Monday's Everett Herald, but you can also read it online HERE.

Sophie & Gunnar :: Mukilteo Beach Photography

Sophie and Gunnar are the best of friends and their photo session at Mukilteo Beach was a blast! We played in the sand, went on the swings and ended the session at an old building near the lighthouse.

mini-vacation to Santa Monica

I took a 4 day mini-vacation to California last weekend and let me say that it was much needed! I was more than ready for sun, sand and In-N-Out. :)

I left my 40D at home and brought along my little Canon point and shoot as well as my Holga. I'm still waiting for the lab to process the Holga pics, but here are some of my favorite digital ones (all of these were taken by the pier in beautiful Santa Monica):

Randomly enough, some fellow Seattlites happened to be down in the LA area the same weekend. One of those was my sister Jamie (she's the one on the right in both the shadow pics and on the left in the pic below).

I'm usually never in pics when I go on vacations by myself, so I took advantage of Jamie and asked her to snap one of me, messed up beach hair and all:

Who can I thank for my beach hair? My friend Huy who was down from Seattle as well. He made sure I jumped in the ocean at his favorite surf spot:

I've been back in Seattle since Monday and I'm already thinking about my next sunny getaway. Any clients interested in a tropical photo shoot? ;)