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My blog has been a part of me and Bliss Studio since April 2, 2006. Its hard to believe it has been so long that I have been blogging! I look at it as a new way to journal. As a kid I always had diary's and notebooks that I was writing in. As an adult I still have that but they are now scrapbooks that have photos of my life with a little writing in them. The online "blog" version I love so much as I can share a part of my life with all of my readers. Not only do I enjoy seeing where I have been and what I have done over the years I love being able to share. I know I have clients, friends, family and fellow photographers who have become blog stalkers over the years and I thank everyone for it! I hope you guys continue to check up on me and continue to enjoy learning a little about me and what I do.
Just a little about me....I am Whitney Stevens and I hail from the city of Portland, Oregon with my wonderful husband, Dan Harlacher, and my little kitty Daisy. Dan and I have been married four years now and loving every minute of it (yes we are one of those couples!). I am a crazy busy girl who always has a thousand and one things going on (which is why my family is always checking my blog when they have not heard from me in a while....Ha). I love sports almost as much as I love photography and am on a volleyball team, softball team and I bowl. And no that is not on a WII as I have been teased. I am actually not very good at WII sports...go figure. I have been photographing for about 11 years now and couldn't imagine not having a camera. I still remember being a kid and owning a little camera and not knowing what I was doing with it...but it was a blast. My grandmother bought me my first official camera when I was in High School (it was a pentax k1000...remember those?) and I have been shooting ever since. The digital world has of course opened so many more doors and turned photographers into designers as well. This works for me as designing and being able to be even more creative is the best!
Now on to the good stuff......Enjoy!
Hugs...
Whitney
It was a pleasure meeting the Green Family and also working with them. Baby Makayla was a doll! And the perfect little model for me. Despite the not so nice weather I am seeing out my window right now the day of this session was beautiful! This gave us the opprotunity to step outside and shoot a couple family shots on the path by the studio. Please check back soon as the Green’s are also going to be entering the Cutest Family Contest. I will post their entry and how to vote from them as soon as we have it ready to go. Until then here is a few of my favorites from their session. Thanks to the Green’s for coming to see me!
Enjoy…
I wanted to post a slideshow of Tawny’s entire session! We are playing a little with video so keep your eye out for the two video clips I have included of her. More slideshows from our pet sessions will be posted soon!
Enjoy…
Dan and I had the opprotunity to take some photos of a local band www.networklivemusic.com. We know one of the band members, Mark from Tigard Bowl. Dan is techincally the commercial shooter for Bliss so it was his “gig” but I came along and shot a few “making of” shots and a few of the individuals of the guys. So basically that means I hijacked my husbands shoot! ha ha! Sorry Honey….I cant help myself! I wont tell you who’s shots are who’s but there is a mix of Dan and my images in this post. To Network…It was a blast working with you guys! Hope you enjoy your AWESOME images!
NEWBORN BABIES! I need a baby girl and a baby boy that is 1 month or younger (need to be itty bitty) to come model for me. I have some hats that we need modeled as well as some baby cocoons that are so adorable. Just need models…this will not be a full session. I will give a gift certificate for a future free studio session for any willing model. I will take the first girl and first boy only. I will need a few other ages so stay tuned. The shoot will be for Sunday the 21st. Anyone have a model for me?
Remy came to visit me this last weekend. What a good Puppy! He was so awesome for his photo shoot! I even managed what looks like a “wink” and a smile. I had a blast with the session and am so looking forward to our Pet Weekend this spring! Thanks so much to Debbie for bringing your little pup in for me to shoot! It was awesome!
Here are a couple faves!
I have joined forces with a good friend, Samantha, creating Sticks & Fuzzies. We are making custom hats for babies and kids. You may have seen posts on here before but I wanted to write a quick note one more time. You can visit our site and view/purchase hats on Etsy. Or by going to http://www.sticksandfuzzies.com. The hats have been quite the hit so far. We are uploading new hats regularly so be sure to tag us as a favorite and check back. If you are on facebook you can also become a fan where we will keep you updated on our awesome hats.
I was able to borrow my cute little Nephew last week to model a few hats! A couple of them are still available if you check out our site. Here is Landon…the cutest model!
Meet Rocky and Diego. Both beautiful cats and I LOVED photographing them. Rocky is the Main Coon and Diego is an Eqyptian Mau. You thought photographing one kitty is hard? Try wrangling TWO! It wasnt too bad though…and definitely worth it! I was really excited that we were able to snag a couple shots of the two together. That I did not think would actually happen. I am still working on our Pet Special that we will have this spring! I have photographed a couple of wonderful pets to help out with the advertising for it. Keep an eye out….Two of the pets I photographed were adopted from the organization I plan on supporting! Makes me happy!
Here is a couple of my favorites.
The Wilding Family has been entered into the cutest family contest! They need your votes!
To vote:
Visit www.sandypucmodels.com
Click on Gallery
Then find Wilding Family (or search city Portland)
Click on their thumbnail to Vote!
Its only $1.00 per vote and proceeds go to the Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Organization!
Here is their entry…
I still have a couple pets to post. Bugsy and Tigger belong to good friends of mine who were so awesome to bring them in for me. As much as I LOVE kitties I will admit Dogs are easier to photograph (but dont get me wrong I will keep taking photos of those kitties!). Bugsy and Tigger did really good for the shoot. I always feel like I am “torturing” the poor animals…but really they are getting lots of LOVE and lots of TREATS for being so good. So its probably fine right? Thanks Jess for bringing in your pups!
Here are a few of my favorites…