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Engagement photos at Champoeg State Park in Newberg | Hillsboro Wedding Photographer

If you’ve been following the blog for a while, you know that Cooper Mountain Nature Park in Aloha is one of my very favorite places to shoot at: there’s tall grass, views of the valley, and it gets the very BEST sunset light!  I was so thrilled Angela and Steven chose that location for their […]

Casual engagement session at Cooper Mountain Nature Park meadow in Beaverton | Hillsboro wedding photographer

This engagement session has been in the works for a while, and I’m so happy to finally share it today!  I’ve been chatting with Lauren and Corey since the fall about their engagement session, and we went from Christmas tree farm to dog park to a forest session and my goodness I am SO GLAD […]

Forest engagement photos with dogs | Hillsboro wedding photographer

Engagement sessions are one of my very favorite types of sessions to do!  I include an engagement session in each of my wedding packages as my gift to the couple because I LOVE shooting them, but also, I 100% believe that they are one of the most important things you can do to prep for […]

Hillsboro engagement photographer | Newberg Wedding Photographer

I love, love, LOVE when the family dog gets to come along to a portrait session!  I’ve had dogs my whole life, and since we don’t have one right now, it’s always a fun day to meet another family’s dog and make some portraits!  Molly and Pippin brought their A game to their family’s session […]

Family portraits with dogs at Jenkins Estate in Beaverton | Hillsboro Family Photographer

Let’s talk adorable couples in love.  Lacey & Taylor are IT.  They are getting married next year, and they are working through all of the wedding planning looking like this: her, snuggled in against his chest, or holding hands and laughing, and completely enjoying each moment with each other.  They’re a self-proclaimed super lovey-dovey couple […]

Jenkins Estate forest engagement session in Beaverton, OR | Hillsboro wedding photographer

Trini and Travis are getting MARRIED in a few weeks at a super epic celebration that includes ROCK CLIMBING!  So, naturally, we had to create some super epic engagement photos!  We met up at Rood Bridge Park so we’d have plenty of space for them to hang out with their sweetheart of a dog.  She […]

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