April 5th, 2019:
February and March started my 40th year off right; first headed to Vietnam to work with PeaceTrees to document their various projects and Citizen Diplomats. After Vietnam I bounced over to Japan to meet Felicia and have a right proper vacation. Here are a few of my favorites from the 2.5 weeks in Vietnam and I’ll share more from Japan soon.
February 12th, 2019:
It’s always fantastic to catch up with past friends and clients, and as ridiculous as it sounds, we met Avi + Angie nearly six years ago before their engagement session and then photographed their wedding day (time moves too damn quickly). Now their family has grown and I was able to spend an afternoon with them meeting Asher for the first time, doing some family photos and then catching up over dinner/drinks that went late into the evening.
Building your visual family history is a role I take seriously, images captured today continue to gain value as time goes on, and I am honored to watch your family grow. If you would like a family session (or any other type of sessions), I’ll be down in Los Angeles for a couple weeks in April just to capture all the growing families of my 200+ wedding clients from the last 8 years. Drop me a message and we’ll get you all set up!
February 6th, 2019
I’m a huge fan of intimate weddings. The idea of having just the absolute most important people gather around you while you move forward as a couple seems so perfect to me (and not to look like I’m just saying it, we only had 42 people at our celebration when Felicia and I were married).
So when Monal gave me a call and told me their idea for the day, I was 100% on board. We started off with a first look at their favorite hangout and the site of their engagement, Cloudburst Brewing in downtown Seattle, before heading down to Georgetown for a ceremony and dinner at the Frans Chocolate factory.
The day flew by, but I was thrilled to spend it with these two, congrats again and I’ll see you soon for your post wedding session!
January 10th, 2019:
“We’d love to have a shoot in the snow!”
That was all I needed to hear from Anuprita + Madan for us to start planning an adventure up into Snoqualmie Pass to find spot that was appropriately blanketed in white fluff. That morning I headed out a little early and scouted out Golden Creek Pond and when these two arrived they were game for the long walk to get out there. Despite the near freezing temperatures, these two were all about this shoot!
Thanks to you both for the great day in the wilderness!
January 3rd, 2019:
Happy New Year everyone! I trust you all survived the holidays? After a couple weeks of houseguests and holiday insanity, I’m back to try to share some things I have shot in the last couple months.
About a month ago I headed out with Shannon + Garrett (and Oxide the Rhodesian Ridgeback) to the Santa Rosa Plateau to catch up with the two of them (since it’s been almost 4 years since their wedding) and capture some new images for them with the new fur baby. I can never say enough about the Californian winter light, but I guess you can see that too!
November 30th, 2018:
Last weekend I headed out for an overcast afternoon to Discovery Park with Anusha and Varun for a Pre-Wedding photography session before their wedding in India in February. We were super lucky to still capture some of that awesome Pacific Northwest fall color and the ground blanketed with leaves.
Congrats you both on the upcoming wedding and thanks for the great afternoon!
October 29th, 2018:
My heart melts when I hear clients want to schedule 2 hours on their wedding day for portraits and then go the extra mile to sign a friend up to drive us all over the city (who waited patiently in the car avoiding parking tickets). Andrea + Joey and I were able to hit up location after location (including shots at a favorite bar!) all over Seattle before settling for their ceremony and celebration at the Westland Distillery.
This was the last wedding I have scheduled for 2018, and it was the perfect way to cap a spectacular year. I’m headed off on a few trips now (Nepal first and then Washington D.C.) so be sure to hit up my Instagram for the day-to-day updates!
Joey + Andrea, Thank you for being two epic human beings and trusting all my tinkering to create something for you to remember!
October 24th, 2018:
“Hey Robert, we’re thinking about canceling our wedding and eloping with just our family as guests, do you think you could make that happen with us?” (I’m paraphrasing here).
“Uh… Hell yeah!”
Yosemite National Park is one of my favorite places in the world and I’d be damned if I didn’t jump on the opportunity to photograph a wedding here, especially for such outdoor badasses like Daniel + Michelle! (Daniel is also a passionate photographer, if you’re so inclined).
They were married under a (sadly) waterless Lower Yosemite Falls, we captured pictures around the valley, caught twilight at Glacier Point and then proceeded to party hard until the sheriff showed up to calm everyone down (seriously). I couldn’t have asked for a better way to spend a Sunday in October; Congrats to you both!
October 12th, 2018:
Lauren + Nile are off in Fiji right now, but a couple weeks back I spent two days with them at their destination wedding at the Chrysalis Inn in Bellingham Washington. It was a fantastic, intimate weekend surrounded by their loved ones and even officiated by a Robert Paetz Photography 2016 alumni bride, T!
Another huge congratulations to you both, and I hope the honeymoon is so all consuming that you don’t see this post until you’re on you way home!
October 4th, 2018:
Bianca + Jeff had a spectacular wedding in their own backyard (and frontyard) on Bainbridge Island last month. We lucked out with the weather, the skies decided to look all ominous and full of character for their portraits and chose not to start pouring until minutes before the reception started under the tent! Thanks to you both for the awesome day out on your island and congrats again!
