Weekend at Point Defiance: Part I

Last month, mere days after our first child was born, Scott shot engagement portrait sessions at Point Defiance Park on two consecutive days. Given that he used the same sections of the park for both sessions, you might expect a lot of redundancy between the two sessions. Think again! There's something about our photography style that ensures that every Wallflower client's photos look different than the others.

I think that more than anything else, it's a result of our approach to posing. Some photographers really fine-tune their poses: tilt your head another inch this way, rotate your body a few degrees that way, and so on. They must have this image of the perfect pose in their heads that they work to achieve. We prefer to request poses in less-specific terms, believing that our subjects will then put themselves into positions that feel natural to themselves. We've found that by doing so, our clients look more natural in the photos — and, as a result, their photos look different than what we've done before. Plus, it's more fun that way!

Here are a handful of favorites from Scott's first shoot of that weekend, featuring Julie and Mike, who currently live in Arizona but are getting married this summer at Thornewood Castle.