Happy Friday-

Monica and I love this time of year.   Living in Seattle the transition from Winter to Spring is painfully subtle, but each time I see a daffodil rise out of the soggy soil or gaze at the cherry blossoms in full bloom I am reminded of the importance of change, growth and cycle and how that effects our daily life and perspective.

As many of you already know, Mo Hines Photography is also transitioning, growing and expanding. We are beyond excited to have teamed up with Tyler Dow http://tylerdow.com/ in a collaborative effort to re-brand and re-design our vision www.LightandSoundphotography.com.  Tyler has been majorly influential during this transition, and we can’t thank him enough.

Speaking of collaborations, we recently teamed up with uber talented Jenn Elliot Blake.   Jenn approached us with the idea of starting a food blog/ project that would promote the hard working farmers and food artisans in the Pacific Northwest.  Mon and I are thrilled about this project, not only do we get opportunity to work hand in hand with Jenn, but we get to express what we love about food and share it with you all.

This is the inaugural post of our portion of this exciting series  named, “Fortunate Feast”.   See how Jenn came up with the name and read about her vision on her stunning blog “A Blog Named Scout”

“Fortunate for the blessing of friendship; fortunate for the ability to create and be inspired without limits; fortunate to be sharing in the beauty AND blessing of food with people whom I admire and love; fortunate to be eating locally sourced and grown healthy food options; and fortunate to be watching all of this come to life.” ~ Jenn Elliot Blake

Gather, prepare, & eat well

stay tuned for lots more……. don’t for get to check out Jenn’s blog

fun with iPhones   ….

have a beautiful weekend

Let me just put it short and sweet, September in Seattle has been stunning.

Its no secret Seth and I love to explore a city by trying all its flavors.  We were able to take recent escape from the Seattle rain to the drizzle of San Francisco back in March.  From Blue Bottle Coffee to Swans Oyster Depot and everything in between, we enjoyed the sights, sounds and flavors of SF. Here is how we saw it through our lenses….

happy friday

its rare that I dont work on sundays…….. Sunday mornings with KEXP, Mate’, Coffee, Breakfast & mimosas is a blessed life.

We had the opportunity to visit NYC in October, got to see my cousin Josh who is going to NYU…… He showed us his city & here is a snap shot of how we see NYC in the Fall.

NYC through our lens

ps. Seth took most of these, I have to say he is awesome

i love my hubby

just some pictures I took while we were out……..

I just returned from a trip down to California, I came back feeling so inspired and encouraged.  My trip consisted of some much needed family time as well as a workshop I attended given by Wildflowers Photography. If you have not checked out this artist, please do www.wildflowersphotography.com.  Joy’s work is stunning and so creative; she captures simple moments in time and makes them into beautiful works of art. I picked Wildflowers Photography because I love her work and hope I can convey similar emotions with my photography.  I not only learned so much but also was so touched by Joy’s passion and how real she was. I had the opportunity to meet some other really amazing photographers that are on my same journey. I will be posting more images from the workshop soon so stay tuned.

But one thing that just made my heart smile was when I visited some family in Temecula. This is Aaron, my cousin. Aaron is holding a picture of himself that I took in my very first Black & White photo class oh so many years ago.  I took this class right out of high school and fell in love with photography. My life has taken many turns since that class and I only recently have re-discovered photography in the last 4 years. But it was so fun to see this image up on a wall. My first child portrait…..   I just wanted to share