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What a splendid last few days. Movin’ into the new digs. Met some cool new peeps last night and today. And finished the Saturday off with a unbelievably fun shoot.

Howard+Allison are having a lil’ engagement party shindig tonight, so we wanted to throw a little something their way to show off to their friends and fam.

We have not laughed and smiled as much as we did today while with these two. Ridiculous. And I’m fairly sure I haven’t heard that many underwear jokes in a long time.

And yes… I called today splendid. I said it. There.

Go on…. smell it.

It’s the scent of love. Happy Saturday friends.

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  • January 25, 2009 - 4:27 pm

    H&A - Phenomenal! Thanks a million.

  • January 26, 2009 - 1:53 pm

    Erin Woolsey - ohhh la la! i love the one of them through the bright blue telescope thing. so creative and still perfectly composed. bravo!

  • January 26, 2009 - 11:16 pm

    mom/laurie - they are fantastic! can’t wait to see ALL of them!
    you guys have captured the look of love they share!

  • January 28, 2009 - 9:41 pm

    ryan flynn - fist pump! sweet set. really really like #3 … so much love and emotion.

  • January 30, 2009 - 3:00 pm

    Kimberly - I am so in love with the youthful feel and amazing processing you all do on these photos. They just glow!

  • February 1, 2009 - 9:42 pm

    a.c. - hey ben! call me sometime. hope you’re doing well. i’ll be seeing you at chad and lizel’s wedding (i’m an usher for them). i’ve also begun blogging again recently, so let’s keep in touch.

    -shoes

  • February 3, 2009 - 12:34 am

    Priscilla Gragg - Your photography is absolutely stunning! It is just so inspiring to me! Thank you for sharing!

Finally… goodness. My blogging lately is about as frequent as I work out. Which is pretty much….never.

This whole building a studio thing has been crazy. In both an amazing and terrible sense. Hopefully we’ll be moving in very, very soon. This whole inbetween home and office has left things a bit difficult to keep managed. But fear not faithful readers (Hi, Mom!), once we get settled in, this little blog will explode with goodness.

Now on to the stuff that is actually worth reading/looking at-These kids are stinkin’ amazing.

Can’t wait to hang with these two again soon!

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  • January 14, 2009 - 7:13 am

    Tyler R - Welcome back to the Internet! Great photos as usual, guys — I love the one looking down through the wooden beams. Can’t wait to see the new studio space. Keep us posted. (Hi, Ben’s mom)

  • January 15, 2009 - 12:16 pm

    Emily Gorab - Hey guys! LOVE these pics! She is so gorgeous! I really enjoy reading your blog (you guys always makes me laugh out loud). Anyway, just want you to know I love your style and that you have another fan besides your mom. lol. When are we gonna get together again? I know you guys are busy, but if you ever want to come down on a weekend, please let us know!! We’d love to see you! ~Emily Gorab (mcgaha)

  • January 16, 2009 - 12:49 pm

    ryan flynn - totally epic set, bro! awesome feeling.

  • January 18, 2009 - 7:51 pm

    Lyndzee of EP - I was thumbing through the wonderous works of the Kaisers and found your link on their shootshop site. Sooo,, thought I’d blog hop a little. LOVE your guys’ work. I of course have a scary appreciation of photography but even more for rad couples that do it together. Rock on and keep up the great work!!

    *Lyndzee

  • January 27, 2009 - 2:05 am

    ROG of EP - Did anyone else notice that my wife Lyndzee said she loved “rad couples that do it together”? Umm…honey, I think that was a little un-called for, but I still love you…besides, I know you’re just speaking from experience. haha. Rad site guys. You guys can really get it on! (no pun intended, unless you want it to).

  • February 4, 2009 - 1:39 am

    Della - Love this set! Your work is crazy good!!

Yesterday Whitney (playing hookey from work) and I braved the crazy Seattle snow to trek on up for the opening day at Stevens Pass. Epic would be an understatement. Not only was it a blast passing all of the abandoned cars along the 405, but the snow was fresh, deep, and glorious.

Only a few lifts were open and the groomers were pretty trashed by midday, so Whitney and I decided to do a bit of hiking to find the deep, untouched stuff.

(Whitney trudging up the mountain via iPhone photo)

Here’s to best Seattle winter ever…

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  • December 19, 2008 - 2:41 pm

    Adam - So cool!!! I’m glad you guys had a good time!!!! Looks like it was amazing!

    – Chels

  • December 19, 2008 - 9:46 pm

    Brian - Are you sure that is Whitney, or is that a Ninja?

  • December 20, 2008 - 3:34 pm

    whitney - duh, brian…i am a ninja! :)

  • January 3, 2009 - 6:53 pm

    Ashley - I not a photographer, but i love your photography and enjoy looking at your blog site…just wanted to ask why you bothered to go to the mountains? My uncle went snowboarding down the streets of Bellvue! LOL!

  • January 5, 2009 - 5:34 pm

    ryan flynn - so sick, dude! i seriously can’t wait till i can board again.

Don’t think you didn’t get caught sneakin’ all up in this biz.

I showed you mine, now you show me yours. Seriously. If this guy gets me the photo he was snappin at the same time as yours truly, dinner will be served (and by dinner I mean, you can come over and I’ll make you dinner and we can get to know one another). On me.

I love finding images like this while post processing. They make me smile.

Full blog of these two crazy kids coming very, very soon.

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  • December 17, 2008 - 4:17 am

    stephen - haha… this happened to me recently while shooting bridal portraits around dallas. was setting her up, stepped back to get myself set, looked over my shoulder and two people were snapping away at my bride… so weird. they wouldn’t stop so i had to tell them to fill their portfolio with someone else’s client than mine.

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