This family session at La Villita San Antonio, Texas was full of architecture and beautiful colors! It can be a very popular location. Check out this blog to learn some helpful tips to make your experience the best it can be!

This romantic and playful engagement session at Blue Mountain Lavender Farms in Walla Walla, WA came with unexpected high winds, but you’d never tell from the photos! See more of this gorgeous engagement session and my tips for shooting at both a lavender farm and in windy conditions.

This desert couple session was so perfect and the views at Papago Park are beautiful!

Courtney & Luke are another one of my 2022 wedding couples! Their Oregon engagement session was so sweet & romantic. We did their engagement session at two different locations – Rowena Crest near The Dalles, OR and Maryhill Stonehenge. I love shooting at both these locations during the week because you get the place all […]

Stephanie + Edgar are one of my 2022 wedding couples! We wanted to plan an engagement session in the winter, but Pacific Northwest winters are no joke! They are extremely cold, and you never know what the weather will bring on any given day. None of us were very excited about the idea of spending […]

This sweet wedding day was 10 years in the making. Jessica & Dalton are high school sweethearts turned husband and wife, and they’ve been together for 10+ years. Their wedding day was not a matter of ‘if’, but ‘when’. I first met Jessica + Dalton when they won my portrait session giveaway back in 2020. […]

Welcome friend! I’m Vanessa – Pacific Northwest wedding + portrait photographer. I’ve been a photographer for 3+ years, and it’s been one of the most unexpected turns I’ve ever taken in life. It’s important that my couples and seniors get to know who I am as a photographer and who I am as a person. […]