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chasing sunshine & good stories

Adventure Wedding Photographers with a heart for the outdoors and a passion for honest imagery. Based in Seattle, Washington, the PNW, and beyond.

Spent the longest day of the year introducing thes Spent the longest day of the year introducing these lovely people to the magic of the Olympics and mostly making them freeze all day: first from chilly crystal clear mountain tops at sunrise and then running into the Pacific as it rained and the fog hid everything in the most beautiful haze. The very best kind of wedding day ❤️
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Hello all! Time for an introduction post, mostly b Hello all! Time for an introduction post, mostly because Devon took this cute photo of me recently and I wanted an excuse to post it, and partly because a prospective bride recently said to me "I don't know if we're cool enough for you guys" and I laughed very loudly in their face. And then I had to apologize, and explain that I was not laughing *at* them, but because we are many things, but cool is definitely not one of them. Allow me to clarify: 
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Here is us! This is me, Laura, and my husband, Devon. We both photograph, but he does the driving, and I do the talking. We live our life for weekends camping and going to bookstores, usually with bad hair. We travel to try out new restaurants and collect stickers with religious zeal from every new park we visit. I love to hike, but only do it for good views and not the exercise because I'm a lazy bish at heart. Devon loves to mountain bike and is an old man trapped in a young body. His favorite breakfast is oatmeal and black coffee at like, 5am, reading the newspaper.
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 The best part about us is our good taste in coffee and our two dogs: Bonnie and Theo. Devon makes a lot of corny puns, and I will tell you unsolicited nature facts that have like, an 79% chance of being accurate because I am bad at science. I swear like a motherfucker, and have zero sense of direction. Devon has an unhealthy obsession with peanut butter, and luckily a much better sense of direction than me. Neither of us are very socially gifted or extraverted, which is highly ironic because somehow our job is to professionally attend people's parties. 
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K, that's it! That's us! 
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Had way too much fun hanging out with these Texas Had way too much fun hanging out with these Texas sweethearts for their adventure session to celebrate their engagement. Thanks for sharing my very problematic taste in true crime podcasts, and talking about how many bodies are at the bottom of Lake Crescent with me and letting Devon and I talk about our dogs for literally a whole hour. It was a delight! ✌️❤️
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Had a delightful first elopement of the year with Had a delightful first elopement of the year with these two recently. We got very lucky and the sun came out in full force and all! Ready or not, busy season here we goooo 😜😂✌️
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It's an El Nina year, my babes, which means snow i It's an El Nina year, my babes, which means snow is hanging out extra long on all those mountain tops, and the rainy spring days keep on coming! Which can delay all our happy vitamin D summertime vibes, but honestly we could not be happier. Give us all the rain & snow!!! It's so good for a healthy snowpack to sustain our beautiful alpine environments throughout those long, beautiful summers. We’re so excited to head back to the Cascades for a bunch of weddings this month. .
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Hopping back onto the internet world to bless you Hopping back onto the internet world to bless you with one of my favorite sunrise shoots of all time.
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Working on lots of stuff around here, planting the garden, walking the dogs, exploring our new neighborhood, and trying out new/old hobbies we haven't had the time for in the past two (very insane) years. Wedding season is juuuuust about upon us, and we are gearing up for summer. Can’t wait to catch some beautiful mountain light with you all ❤️🤘
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Happy (slightly belated) Gotcha Day to Theo!! I ca Happy (slightly belated) Gotcha Day to Theo!! I can't believe it's been a whole year & 7 days since this extravert on 4 legs bombarded into our lives and stole our hearts. 

Thanks for being the most dramatic, big-hearted, excitable, friendliest, goofiest, loving, age-defying, long distance marathoner I've ever met, bud. You are the sunshine in our lives and also the reason we drink, sweet boy. 
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If you haven’t met him yet, Theo always brings the stoke to every shoot (sometimes a little TOO much stoke iykyk) and he truly, truly loves getting to meet you all. Thank you for welcoming him with open arms to your weddings. In honor of the big guy turning 10 years old, here are some of my favorite Theo photobombs from this past year.
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Happy earth day, my friends! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Happy earth day, my friends!
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I always have a lot of thoughts and feeling about Earth Day, since this delightful, fascinating space marble that keeps us all alive is probably the thing I’m most passionate about. But I’ll try to keep it brief:
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Be good to the earth. She’s all we have. Oh, and pick up some trash today.✌️
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These wanted their photos to revolve around their These wanted their photos to revolve around their love of backcountry skiing together and their dog! To which I wholeheartedly agreed, under the condition that they knew Devon and I are two clumsy dweebs who have never been able to ski in our lives. They were gracious enough to put up with our lack of skill and we snowshoed in with them instead. Went in search of blue bird skies with these two, but of course, the PNW had other plans for us, as she often does in the spring. Not to worry though, we had just as much fun tromping about in the "bad" weather! .
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Sometimes I’ll just be going through my day and Sometimes I’ll just be going through my day and then I’ll think about the light at this one session and be like “damn”. It was truly chef’s kiss perfection and now all I do is measure all other light by it. Any other photographers have memories of the perfect lighting you wish you could bottle?? Or am I insane?
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