"Expect The Unexpected: Photographic Magic!"
Mearle focuses more than 30 years of award winning photographic experience on you and your wedding day. From a folding medium format camera that his father used for wedding photography, to 4X5 large format photography, on to a superb Mamiya medium format camera and through numerous digital camera evolutions, he knows cameras and photographic techniques intimately.
But technical knowledge alone is not enough. Photography is in fact an art form. In the brief flicker of a camera shutter, you have to capture a single instant that summarizes long sequences of events, and do it in a way that pulls at the heart strings. A picture is not always equal to a thousand words; when you have only said one word, "WOW!", we know we have done our job well.
The “Works”. No expense spared to make this a very special wedding event for Summer and Richard, Just beautiful!
Location: Thornewood Castle, Lakewood, WA
Lovely Summer, soon to be the bride of Richard come February, came in today for her boudoir photo shoot. Richard will be in for a treat with a sweet collection of images of Summer that she posed and picked specially for him. I can only post a couple here now. We don’t want to spoil the surprise. Shhhh. Don’t say anything!
This was a typical location portrait session that we did with Nancy and Paul in the yard of their Ballard home.
What a wonderful and entertaining wedding! I have never seen the groom and groomsmen put on quite the show for a bride before. Emerald was obviously dearly loved by all in attendance. Everyone had a great time. What a party! Pictures from the whole wedding are now available for viewing and print ordering on Emerald’s photo gallery at Zenfolio.
Elizabeth and Kabe were united in marriage at the Gibson House in Centralia today. Melodie and I had the honor of doing their comprehensive photographic coverage from getting ready to the reception. As always weddings like this have a serious burden of responsibility to reliably capture everything that happens and everyone that it happens with, yet there still remains time for some creativity.
Pictures taken by Mearle and Melodie during the wedding may be ordered from Elizabeth and Kabe’s on-line photo gallery.
A party tonight in honor of baby Zoe’s very first ever birthday!!! Cupcakes, assorted other moms and dads and babies, many presents, but above all ZoEEEEE!!!
Oh, and by the way, Splendid Cupcakes of Seattle supplied the delicious cupcakes for her birthday party.
Last night we had a short wedding ceremony at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Lacey, WA. Very nice. The late hour lent a certain character to the outdoor shots. The indoor shots took on that golden orange color from the incandescent lights that added a warm and comforting feeling to the ceremony and sanctuary. All was in harmony with God’s will. 
– Mearle
11/19 Update: Prints may be ordered here. Click on the “Galleries” tab to find this wedding.
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
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Let me introduce you to my loyal sidekick Schooner. Schooner is named like other springer spaniels I have had – after my good home brewed beer. Before Schooner there was Barley. I have Porter also, but he’s another story. All are field-bred. That means instead of being bred to look pretty for dog shows, they are selected for their lust for upland bird hunting, well balanced with a desire to please their master.
When they can’t hunt, the instincts shift to an obsession with carrying around a shoe or teddy bear – and hoping I’ll throw it to retrieve. Schooner does this constantly! In the middle of the night I’ll sometimes hear him whine a little for me to wake up and throw the teddy bear for him.
The retrieve is what he lives for. No treats or atta’boys are nearly so good a reward in training as just a chance to make another fetch. He’s just a born work-a-holic!
Schooners’s normal behavior: Highly attentive and waiting for something to fetch.
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