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Comment #19, by Alyssa Richardson, was randomly chosen as the winner of a custom photography session and 16×20 gallery wrap canvas! Here’s the winning comment:

Happy Birthday!!!

Wow i would love a family session for my sister, Bro-In law and their kids ( they are having a second in September). They describe themselves as the most un-photogenic people ever, so they never get photos taken, and i would love for someone to prove them wrong

I’m up for that challenge!
Thanks to everyone who participated in my giveaway

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My birthday is this Friday, and what better way to celebrate then by giving away a photography session?!

Up for grabs is a 1-2 hour photo session, on-location or in your home, and a 16×20 gallery wrapped canvas. Prize is valued at $325. Great time to get those holiday portraits taken! The session must take place by December 15th, 2010 and needs to be scheduled 4 weeks in advance. I will travel up to 2 hours outside of Seattle for the session, so if you’re in Portland, or Vancouver, we can meet in the middle

You have 3 ways to enter.
1. Post a comment letting my know what type of session you’d want if you won.
2. Share this on Facebook and post another comment over here telling me you did so. While you’re over there, go ahead and “like” Ketti Photography!
3. Share this on Twitter and post another comment telling me you did so. Go ahead and follow me on Twitter too!
Each entry must have it’s own comment posted here.
Contest ends at 11:59pm Friday, July 23rd. Winner will be announced over the weekend. Might not be until Sunday, because I’m having a big party on Saturday! But who am I kidding, I’ll be so excited to see who won, I’ll probably post the winner at midnight.

(I’m also giving away a camera bag on my other website!)

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Meet Ryan and Jackie. They are getting married next month. Ryan just so happens to be my cousin.
Some of you may not know, but I moved to WA from CA about a year and a half ago. These two had already made that move two years prior and they are the only family we’ve got (excluding a few extended relatives) in the state. Thank goodness they are fun to hang out with, because when holidays roll around, it’s us and them.

Their engagement session has to be the funnest session I’ve ever had. They came prepared with some costumes and wacky ideas, and were up for anything.
Let’s just get to the goods, shall we?

We finished up the session at an Irish pub. Great way to end the day.

These are some of the whack-a-dos of the day. The stretching photo is all their idea, and I’m kinda jealous of that. So fun.

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Last week my husband was in L.A. for his big industry event, E3. Rather than sit at home, just me and the boys, we headed south as well to my mom’s house in northern California. It was nice to just hang out and visit with her, with no real plans or agenda! Having other people around to occupy the kids didn’t hurt either. I was able to go to San Francisco for the day, by myself, and meet a friend who was in town from North Carolina- the wonderful photographer,  Julia Wade! I’ll have another blog post later this week with some pictures from my trip.

While I was down there I had the opportunity to photograph a gorgeous family. Not being from the area, they had to do their own location scouting. Kristi gave me a few places she thought would work, one being an old cemetery. Who does family photos in a cemetery?! Well, we do. It was too cool! Old, beautiful, with just a touch of creepiness. I was there a bit early walking around the old tombstones, nobody there but me and a few hundred dead people. I  started hearing a knocking sound and imagined the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland, only scary. Sure it was a woodpecker, but that, along with the giant crows cawing at me, had me speed right through the old part of the cemetery and onto the way less creepy new area. And there I saw wild turkeys. Odd.

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Stacey’s new little girl has arrived! She has the coolest girl baby name ever. I can’t say it’s the best baby name in general, because I think my own little Knox Danger has a pretty awesome name, but for a girl, Freja Sailor is down right rad. She is such a beauty, I’m sure she’s already got daddy wrapped around her little finger!

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I don’t get to work with just adults very often, so having subjects who would actually sit still and take direction?! This was a real treat! The evening light was just amazing and I caught myself gasping several times as I looked through the lens and pressed my shutter button – it was just too beautiful.

Bailey & Ryan are friends of ours who recently got married. They opted to not have the big wedding and kept it teeny tiny and super private, just like they wanted. I totally admire that. The focus can really be on the love and not the show. Though I expect a party to come!

Congratulations, guys!

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Mother’s Day just came and went and would you believe that I, a mother of two, forgot to send out cards to my moms? Oh the shame! I did call, though which must count for something.

My boys indulged me with a visit to the Seattle Art Museum and a nice dinner at an old favorite restaurant of mine from back in California that I just found up here. My taste buds must have drastically matured from 10 years ago because I thought it was pretty sub-par. I won’t name any names but it rhymes with confetti schmactory

In the morning I had the privilege of photographing one of my favorite families again. They are so stinkin’ cute and such fun to work with! We hit up the Bellevue Botanical Gardens which is all in bloom and just gorgeous. Enjoy!

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I have been wanting to do a session in a diner or some sort of fun shop for months now and Stacey was up for it. Yay! We had planned on taking her family out for a scoop of the best handmade ice cream in town. Come Saturday and Seattle’s first official day of sunshine in 2 months, everyone had the same idea. After switching up our location to make sure we got some great images, we headed over to Molly Moon’s and waited in the longest line I have ever seen for ice cream. I was drooling over the scent of those waffle cones! We also horsed around in Archie McPhee’s, where she so graciously donned a horse mask for me.

Stacey has been a great client of mine. It was just last year that I did her maternity and newborn photographs for her second baby, and now here she is awaiting her third, a little girl. I’m so stinkin’ excited for her! As a mother of 2 boys with no plans for a third, I have somewhat mourned the fact that I won’t have a daughter of my own. I love my boys, don’t get me wrong. I LOOOOVE them. And absolutely love being the mother to two. When I see other mom’s of boys I like to observe them, in a very non-stalkerish way, and picture myself and my boys at those ages. It warms my heart to no avail. Yet still, I guess I have a dream of having a daughter to shop with or french braid her hair… Having the opportunity to watch this family as they await their daughter is a good fix. I can’t wait to photograph her. Maybe she’ll have enough hair for a teeny tiny braid…

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We recently returned from our vacation to southern California. We went to visit family and introduce Knox to his family. Also took Brock to Disneyland for his 3rd birthday.  Thought I’d share a few shots with ya!

My dad with all his grandkids. My kid was not having it.

little game of whiffleball in the park

My Grandma got to meet Knox for the first time. She also cooked and baked all my favorites, just to make me miss home even more. Fish tacos, butter tarts, fresh baked peach and cherry pie… The diet started as soon as we got home.

Fun on the Teacups at Disneyland!

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We just got back from a family trip to California. My family got to finally meet Knox, and we took Brock to Disneyland for his 3rd birthday. It was such a fun trip, and probably the first vacation we’ve taken as a family where it really felt like we were “adults”. Which is weird since I’m 32 years old, but it was the first time we planned a big trip ourselves that wasn’t somehow attached to our parents plans.

While we were there I did a quick session with my lovely niece, Emma. I took her to the field next to the house I grew up in. I knew it would be awesome as the sun set, but I did not think about all the fox tails the beautiful field had. My shoes and pants were absolutely covered with them! Emma didn’t even bat an eye. She was on a mission to find ladybugs and a few little stickers were not going to get in her way.

It was a lovely vacation and it’s nice to be home. Maybe next time the family will come visit us. hint hint.

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