Monthly Archives: June 2009

Matt & Emma engaged!!! – images from a NW photographer

Matt & Emma engaged!!!     – images from a NW photographer My photographer friend from out East at Princeton Theological Seminary, Matt, was engaged a while back, and I had the honor to shoot their engagement session while I was still in Princeton.  Here’s a few of the shots we got that wet, rainy...

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June 14, 2009 - 1:06 am

Bryan Rupp - Beautiful shots Joel! I love the black and white one of them looking out the window, beautiful use of light…reminds me of Kuperberg…so many great shots here though Joel! Hope your enjoying the Northwest so much man and I can’t wait to see you!

“Oliver Cole” – images from a NW photographer

“Oliver Cole”     – images from a NW native Our good friends, the Ragsdales, just had a new addition to their family.  He was born this morning, and is a very calm, personable little baby.  We were surprised to see his open eyes, which were open almost all of the time.  Our other good...

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June 11, 2009 - 12:58 pm

Leah Rupp - Love them. every single one of them. perfect.

June 10, 2009 - 10:18 pm

Sherry - Hi Joel…Yesterday I sent a note to an old address (shoreline) and it just came back undelivered. Then I got a “failed” notice from your “contact” page. So I’m resorting to this method. Please delete it as a comment after you get this. Here’s what I wrote:

I just saw pictures of Oliver Ragsdale on your blog. Earlier I sent a note to Oliver’s parents, asking for a picture I might publish on Friday with his announcement and also on Sunday morning’s projection announcement. I wonder if I might use one of these and then link to the post with all the pictures. What are the rules about the ID banner on the bottom? I don’t want to violate your restrictions.

The pics are wonderful, as is every picture I see on your blog. Truly wonderful!

June 10, 2009 - 11:42 am

Melissa Chapman - Espen likes a baby huh? Maybe he needs one of his own… :)

June 10, 2009 - 12:11 am

Bryan Rupp - Beautiful shots Joel, thanks so much for capturing these, we are super bummed that we couldn’t be there to see them and Oliver, so it’s so nice to be able to see him. I really like that in the fifth one from the bottom at first I thought Russ didn’t have a shirt on, which I thought was really awesome and hardcore…

“Della, Della” – images from a NW native

“Della, Della”     – images from a NW native This session has been a long time coming.  Way back in January my good friend came out with her family for a conference.  During their visit we had the chance to shoot some senior portraits around Princeton University where she had spent a semester.  It...

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Trekking west: further developments

Trekking west: further developments I had fun getting to play with a new medium format camera.  That’s right – film.  And we’re talking 6×7 (cm) for a big, fat, juicy negative!  Although the below images are not products of my new acquisition, you can see it pictured in the first photo.  Tomorrow begins the editing...

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June 10, 2009 - 12:08 am

Bryan Rupp - Joel, beautiful shots man, I especially love the bottom one, very dramatic and beautiful as well as very ansely… I also really like the shot of you, great to talk to you on the phone the other night man and hope all is so well for you as your settling back in to the pacific northwest

June 8, 2009 - 1:11 pm

Aimee - Good golly I miss mountains!!!

Trekking west: an initial snapshot

Trekking west: an initial snapshot Wow.  It has been some time since I’ve checked in here.  We just arrived on Monday back into the beautiful NW, but we made a quick stop during our mad dash across the states in Jackson, Wyoming.  Due to fatigue from driving so much I only made it up for...

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