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(a lil’ snap from our night at the Sounders game…)

fútbol. football. soccer. Call it whatever you want. What I love about this beautiful game is that it’s not just some 100 year old American past time. Don’t get me wrong… chowin’ down on a chili dog at a baseball game is just down right goodness. But the game of soccer is one that brings together an entire planet unlike anything I’ve ever seen.

Whether you are at your first MLS game, a high school stadium, a little tikes game with 5 year olds running mad, at a EUFA cup match, or the slums of Guatemala–there is a beautiful unity around the game in which anyone can play. No matter who you are, what you look like, or how much money you have.

And that is beautiful.

I suck at soccer. Like so awful my 7 year old niece can show me up. I run from one end of the field to the other and I’m suckin’ wind like a brand new Dyson.

But I will always love this game.

Just wrapped an awesome session with Tony+Susan. They wore these amazingly rockin’ traditional outfits. Soooo good.

Thought we’d throw up a quick few… Whitney was on fire today as usual.

We’re off to the Sounders FC game tonight. I can’t even tell you how excited I am. I’m so excited I’m even going to use two exclamation marks.

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but we hang out at the laundromat.

Here’s the skinny…. we recently shot an incredible graduate portrait session for some awesome friends of ours and it made us realize just how pumped we would be to offer them. So in the coming weeks we are going to be launching a new site that features our FAMILY and *the new* GRADUATE sessions.

First FOUR graduates (or your lovely parent) to contact us about a GRADUATE session saves big time. As in-you’ll be pumped about it-big time.

Yes, folks…. the ‘senior portrait’ world as you know it is about to get it’s roof blown off. Brighten style.

So I am finally gettin’ my lazy self around to posting some photos of our new studio digs. We snapped these super quick after the Greenwood Artwalk last Friday. It was a splendid time indeed.

The space isn’t quite complete (as if my habits of constant change will ever allow it to be…), but we are pretty stoked about the results thus far.

Those massive pocket doors open up to my buddy Brett’s space. Brett is half of the genius behind the Greenwood Collective and  the designer extraordinaire of Schwager Designs. We built our spaces collectively so that we can open the entire space up and give it a super roomy feel, or close things down when we meet with clients, etc…. Brilliant.

Enjoy.

Stop on by anytime. Seriously. I have beverages in the fridge with your name on it.

See you soon.