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Say Hello… Messy Face and All

laurenhurt — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:18:39 +0000

If you didn’t know, I have been flying back and forth between Los Angeles and Oregon all summer to shoot weddings in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. I have the great pleasure of having a room waiting for me in the house I grew up in. My parents live on a beautiful property right outside of Corvallis, surrounded by farm fields and complete with 80+ backyard blueberry bushes to graze over. It is the perfect Yin to my busy Los Angeles Yang. I also attribute a lot of my sunny, free spirited photographic style to this special place. I flew in last Friday to shoot Lisa and Steve’s wedding at the Inn at Diamond Woods (Diamond Woods Golf Course, Monroe Oregon) and I’ll be here through August 4th shooting more weddings and portraits!

But on to today’s excitement! This afternoon I was having a picnic in the back yard with my absolute favorite nephew in the whole world, Mr. Jack Danger, when I noticed the UPS truck drive down our little street. I ran out front and sure enough, my new prime lens had arrived! Busy wedding filled summers, mean an excuse for me to continue bulking up with only the finest equipment out there to give my clients only the highest quality. I cut open the medium sized brown box to reveal the super awesome Canon 35mm 1.4L, meanwhile Jack had already moved on to bigger and better things… aka the trampoline. Here’s some of the first shots with this wide eyed beauty (the lens I mean, but the little guy too). Can’t wait to take it out on the field!

ps. Jack actually took the one of me! Pretty good for a 2 1/2 year old
pss. This first one is Jack landing a belly flop, also pretty good for a 2 1/2 year old?

BIRTHDAY SALE! [Oregon + Southern California Photography]

laurenhurt — Thu, 06 May 2010 22:51:23 +0000

Art

laurenhurt — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:12:46 +0000

I’ve been thinking lately about starting an Etsy account, or something similar, what do you guys think? Would you buy my art prints?

The Shoe Tree – adventures from a road trip

laurenhurt — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:58:41 +0000

last weekend we embarked on a grand adventure when we took an accidental 3 hour detour in hopes of bypassing Portland-metro-memorial-day-weekend traffic. By pass we did, and unknowingly hopped on to Oregon’s “Journey Through Time Scenic Byway”. Once our crew of 7 (packed into our 6 passenger van plus camping equipment) gave up our ideas of arriving at camp before sun down we all settled into a great adventure. Who wants to set up camp over seeing ghost towns of the old west? But the greatest part of the whole trip, besides the awesome company, was our unexpected find of the Shoe Tree! We were trucking along in the middle of nowhere Oregon at sunset and all the sudden we pass by this old rotten tree covered in shoes were all of it’s leaves should be. I yell “Did you guys see that!!” We flip a U-Turn on the highway and go back to check it out…. I’ll let you see for your own eyes, this this was amazing!

Pretty cool Huh?
I didn’t take any pictures in the festival, I left my camera in the car and just enjoyed the experience, but it was truly an amazing time. I was blessed to be there and in the company of such fun friends. All of it was awesome!