The Awesome Fosse Family

I'm not sure when I've laughed so hard at a family photo shoot...or at least not when someone ended up in tears....oh, it's so easy for siblings to go too far.

Mitchell was the reason for the season this time...graduating from high school. He rebuilt the car himself. shazaaam....

A little sexy time with the folks...

And then for a grand finale...Mitch jumped his car....kapow!

Ari the pirate

"This piece right here spins and that starts the motor. And this piece moves so that you can walk from land to the ship."

"Like a gang plank?"

"Yeah, that's the gang plank."

"Hey Ari, what does this little green piece do?"

"Libby, pirates don't tell their secrets..."



I love that pirates are all jolly rogers and real treasure, complicated ships and detailed maps. I think the obsession was born on a visit to a fort in Puerto Rico.

He saw a big pile of cannonballs that had been turned into a sculpture and shouted, "blueberries!". I mean really, wouldn't pirates be more jolly if they all let their love of blueberries tumble forth?

Birthday Bash

I want to spend every Saturday morning photographing three year olds birthday parties. Do you think there is a market specifically for this? Maybe I'll have to include four year olds too.




It was the sweetest little gathering...it could also be that the birthday girl has this gentle, kind spirit that made it all the more.




But you know who's really magical? Preschool teachers....how can they keep kids mesmerized and focused? At one point she had them all trying to trick the adults into pretending they were asleep...that beats the time I saw the little girl playing "coma".

SAL---Oh how I love you...

There have been some excellent SAL events this year...heck, just this month...and I'm told the last two, Shirin Ebadi on May 19th and Gary Snyder on May 27th, will not disappoint. It's not that I doubt it, it's just that last Friday was really one of the best lectures yet. I had been prepped to like Naomi Shihab Nye. A client had mentioned how much she loved her. And then her first night sold out. I don't know very many poets...okay, I probably don't need all the fingers on one hand to count them...so the fact that the Hall sold out and was nearly so on a second night amazed...no, astounded me.

Ms Nye was amazing...I sound like a reviewer...which I'm emphatically not (see aforementioned I know nothing about poetry disclaimer) but she made me cry, she made me laugh, she made me excited to hear what she would say next. Now that's pretty darn cool...even for poetry...

How can they do it? Have a witty, clever, off the cuff conversation in front of hundreds of people. I can barely manage to remember to ask how the weather is...

My favorite line: "Sometimes I pretend I'm not me, that I only work for me..."

So perfect. That's me. That's what I say. We always make fun of my boss. She's so mean, we steal office supplies from her and hope she doesn't notice.

SAL and Mira Nair

Another wonderful Seattle Arts and Lectures evening last week. Mira Nair was amazing. Incredibly creative, hardworking, visual, generous, interesting. She made me want to rush home and finish the projects that have languished and start the ones that have yet to flourish.

I love listening to the stories that the authors tell...they all (or most all) sound so smart and funny but with Ms. Nair she then showed us the fruits of her labor and I got to realize how much more she is than I had imagined! And also how much bigger the world is...I want to rent every movie she's made!

Mothers Day movie and more...

I saw the sweetest best movie yesterday. Oh yesterday, such a blissful weekend day. I washed the windows which made my mom really happy. She doesn't live here but when I told her she said, "Oh, I love when the windows are washed!". We are what we are....and then I laid about and admired my work until I had the brilliant idea that I could lay on the couch and see quite a few windows and watch my movie and coincidentally the coffee table was a nice place to put my feet and my margarita...my mom likes those things too...well, not feet on the table but mom's do like to tell you to get your feet off the table so it sort of counts as a mother's day experience.

Which brings me back to this movie...Son of Rambow...not only was it completely charming story-wise but visually it was awesome (for my mom...she loves that word). I get in trouble for saying I love inanimate objects but I am pretty much in love with this movie.

Another yummy baby!

mmmm...you know what is really nice? When a really nice family that I already really like have another yummy new baby. A baby that can be tossed around from kid sisters to adoring grammas, rolled in the ground cover, have their feet tickled and runny noses wiped and still be full of sugar...still shower us with happy, bright smiles and engaged affection....that's what's really nice!

Oh...plus...we woke her from a nap for the photos....what?! This is her first picture....

And this is the last...and I bet she even had a little more in her....


In the middle I tried to convince her big sisters that they were fairy princesses but they are pretty certain that they are little girls....so wise beyond their years...

"Be careful with that little spider"...."oh. we just squished it".

The face of Clise Mansion

Last summer I sent some photos from a wedding I did at the Clise Mansion to the company that owns the property...Seattle Bride. They had asked for some shots that showed off the property and this wedding was amazing. Kirstie Warren of Simply Wed worked long and hard with the bride to coordinate down to the smallest detail and it totally showed...It was beautiful and fun and sweet and elegant.

And then, as I always do, I forgot about it until I got this email....

"Hi Libby! I hope you are having a nice fall. I just wanted to let you know that we did end up using some of your photos for our new ads and that you have been given credit on the photos. Your photos will be appearing in our ads in the Seattle Bride Magazine, Seattle Metropolitan Bride & Groom, the Seattle Wedding Show Magazine, 425 magazine and on our brand new website which will launch on January 1st. Thanks again for letting us use your photos, they are gorgeous!"

WHAT!?! So excellent!

Here's some shots from Courtney and Dan's wedding but if you just can't get enough you can see even more on the Seattle Bride Blog

I love this last shot...it was an awesome party made even better by my favorite wedding band of all time...High Wide and Handsome...a bunch of hillbillies from Bellingham (I don't think they would argue with that description!).