i am a hippie at heart so she says..........Polka Dot Photography/Portland, OR Photographer

So this one was my funnies client yet probably. She is from Texas and is here doing her internship for her degree in fashion design. She leaves in about a week to go back and graduate and I was the lucky one she picked to do her college graduation photos. We joked the whole time that she was a hippie, when in fact she put me in check after we got back and I changed into my white summer skirt and long green dress shirt and flip flops. She assured me I was a hippie and was just in denial about it. It was pretty funny and cute with her sweet Texas accent. I loved it. I love fun clients!
















Senior photo sessions are upon us. Contact Polka Dot Photography to book your senior 2009 photos sessions in the Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR areas. Most schools require the photos to be turned in for the yearbook shortly after school starts in September. If you are a senior at Battle Ground, Castle Rock or Washougal High School go find one of my reps at your school to get their card for a special offer!

I'm back!!!!!!!!

We are back from Alaska and we had a fabulous time. I worked but also got to play so it was a wonderful time. The day after I got back I had a wedding to shoot and then have been slammed scouring through emails, orders and new sessions. I am back now from my break and will be posting lots of new things that I can't wait to share. I will also be adding new dates to my schedule to go through the end of the year so be sure to check for that. For now, here is a few to share from another one of my gorgeous senior reps for next year.




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a loooooong post and a beautiful senior - Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR Senior Photographer

Today the nice weather finally came back, thank god. I had rescheduled so many sessions within the last two weeks it made me want to scream. Thankfully everyone was really understanding that I have no control over this crazy rain. Isn't it supposed to be summer people? Anyways today the beautiful weather was back and I treated my oldest to a trip to the rose festival since we were downtown shopping for our vacation. Oh how I love to watch people at things like that....a photographers dream I tell ya. ha ha.

So anyways, here is to good weather and us leaving on a family vacation in just three days. Do you know how excited I am about this? Well lets just say that we have never, I mean never, been on a family vacation before so this is a pretty big deal for us. To top it off we are going to Alaska of all places and that just makes it a rockin trip. Excited to see old friends and take my husband back to where I used to live. Can't wait so show him what "real" fishing is like LOL!!!

I have worked my tail off the last few months and I mean that with all seriousness. Last week I had went 9 days straight with photo sessions. If that is not crazy, I don't know what is. The business is fantastic but it also means that I never ever got caught up. The last week I have spent every waking second on this computer, editing sessions, responding to emails, calling clients, taking pictures, designing engagement albums, ordering prints, packaging orders, shopping for supplies and I could go on and on. The amazing thing about all of this is that I will be completely caught up before I leave for my trip on thursday. Yes, every single session will be edited and everything else in between. This is a big deal and I am so excited to start fresh when I get back. I will also not allow myself to get overbooked ever, ever again. It is so important to me, to be able to provide my clients with personalized service and when I get overbooked it makes that nearly impossible to do that in a timely fashion.

So without further ado, one of my beautiful clients that is also one of my senior reps I have for next year. I cannot tell you enough how much I love my senior reps this year. I could squeeze and smooch all of them. Such sweet, sweet, young men and women that I have the pleasure of working with over the next year and it just makes me giddy.









I am soooo mean and made her get in the freezing columbia river. Thanks for being such a trooper Kristal. (0:

I love Seniors and I love Taggers

We did this senior session and I have to admit my head was pretty big for ummmm the last week. How many people do you know get their senior photos done with flaming footballs and custom graffiti? Yeah didn't think so. Ty was such a sweetheart and his mom too. We had so much this day. One of my new fave places had a bunch of taggers there this time. They were doing fresh graffiti. I finally went up to them and asked if they would write Ty's name on one of the walls and told them I was doing his senior photos for next year (He is one of rep's for next year). They were hesitant at first but then happily agreed. We were so excited with the result. We took pictures by The big "Ty" writing but somehow I didn't edit that one yet so this will do for now. The shoe picture is special to mom because these were his baby shoes and his new nike's matched. She had to bring both and I am so glad. I love when people have meaningful ideas. I hope this meets your expectation Lori and Ty. I am so excited to be working with you two over the next year.











If you are looking for a Senior photographer in the Vancouver, WA or Portland, OR area, I am currently looking for Senior Reps for the 2008/2009 school year. Please contact me {polka dot photography} for all the details on making your senior portraits unique!

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One of two senior session I did a few weeks back that I forgot to post on the blog. Seniors are so fun. I am lining up my Senior Reps for 2009 so if you or someone you know is a Junior, going into their senior year next year please have them contact me right away. Please send me a picture of yourself and any info about groups and organizations you are involved in. I will then choose and if you are my rep, you will get a free photo session. You will get a proofbook showing a sampling of your photos to show off to your friends. You will also get a package of small business cards with your picture and contact info on (such as your cell phone number and myspace address)to hand out to your friends. On the backside it will have my info. For every person that refer to me you will get $20 in print credit and they will get a free set of wallets. Senior Rep photo sessions will take place the end of May so contact me right away if you are interested and forward this on to anyone that might be as well.


If you are in search of a Senior Portrait Photographer in the Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR area please contact Polka Dot Photography. I also make monthly trips up to Longview/Kelso and Castle Rock, WA.