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Thanks for stopping by! Whether you are a client, friend, family member or just someone who is interested in photos, we are happy you are here. For more information, we would love to have you visit our website. Feel free to look around and let us know what you think.

Currently booking unique and sincere weddings for 2010. Drop us a line if you think we might be a good fit. We'd love to meet you. And oh yeah, it'll involve coffee.

Bryan and Leah

J e s s i e & B r o o k | Wedding Slideshow

I just finished up the slideshow of Jessie and Brook’s Wedding Photos. You can see it by clicking here. We’re going to be doing a slideshow like this for all of our upcoming weddings.

As I was editing the photos for the slideshow I came across this photo of Brooks little brother blowing bubbles.

*A little sidenote: Nearly four years ago when Leah and I got married the song playing to this slideshow is the song she walked down the aisle to, so of course it’s a bit of a special song for us :)

Happy Wednesday!

Bryan

B e t h a n n e & L u k e | Wedding

Bethanne and Luke got the perfect January Saturday for their wedding. It was one of few days this year where the sun came out and it was simply beautiful.

They decided to see each other for the first time at Rogers Landing in Newberg.

If you’ve been following us you might remember Ella, she was the flower girl at this wedding and was so cute. She tried to hand me her baby doll while I was taking pictures during the ceremony.

Bethanne and Luke, thank you so much for letting us be a part of your wedding. You had such an intimate and meaningful ceremony and Leah and I so enjoyed being able to capture it!

Bryan

February 1, 2010 - 10:33 pm Joel - Beautiful wedding, you two! I really dig the vertical shot of luke on the dock, very cool!

February 2, 2010 - 6:17 pm Erin - wow... you even made the pulp mill look good. always brilliant work, guys!

February 3, 2010 - 5:01 pm Faith - BEAUTIFUL!!! All the pictures are wonderful! Luke and Bethanne I'm so happy for for you! - Love Faith

February 3, 2010 - 8:19 pm Siegi, Rich, Lea and Blissy - BethAnne & Luke, you are such a gorgeous couple! You must have had such a beautiful time together and the pics of you are just so warm, loveable and special.... Well, you two are just an awesome couple! Congratulations for a fun and loveable lifetime together :-)

February 4, 2010 - 8:49 am Marie Loudermilk - BethAnne and Luke, The pictures are beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing with me. I am so happy that you had such a wonderful day for the start of this great new life together!! Love you, Aunt Marie

M a d i s o n | Senior

The western Oregon Winter kept on raining during Madison’s senior session, but Madison decided that we should go ahead and go for it, and it turned out to be such a fun session.

Madison brought along her friend Tiffanie and she made an excellent assistant, holding an umbrella over me in the rain and following me around as I got all the different angles.

When we moved to this location, despite the giant no skateboarding signs, there was a young man skateboarding on these benches. We laughed a bit as he just kept right on skateboarding within feet of us taking photos. Shortly after we arrived, the Newberg Police rolled up and informed our skateboarding friend that he would be arrested next time he was caught skateboarding at George Fox’s campus. It made the session just a little more interesting.

January 27, 2010 - 10:37 am Mrs Soup - These are great shots! Way to make the weather work for you! Beautiful!

February 1, 2010 - 5:46 am anita opazo - Bravo Bryan and Leah! I love looking through your images. You do an excellent job capturing the spirit of people and stories. I love the effects you place in each image...through the depth-of-field or the colors, etc. Life in Kuwait is so different from there that it's refreshing to remember the rain and the dampness and the cold air that is such a warm memory in my mind! Blessings to you guys! I wish you both the best!

February 1, 2010 - 7:38 am Amber Halpin - Great work guys! It's fun to watch you work. My favorite shot is the one of her rainboots. : )

L i n d s e y & D a n i e l | Wedding

Lindsey and Daniel’s Wedding was at Gerding Theater at the Armory in Northwest Portland.

Lisa Swartout of Bella Bloom Florals did an incredible job on the floral arrangements!

The venue had these awesome drop lights hanging from the ceiling…

The couple’s entrance into the reception.

You might have noticed this beautiful wall in the background of a few of the other pictures.

Lindsey and Daniel, Leah and I had such a great time photographing your wedding, it was such a beautiful and fun evening and thanks for letting us be a part of it!

Happy Thursday everyone!

Bryan

January 21, 2010 - 12:31 pm Heather Espana - What an awesome venue! Beautiful job on the reception lighting too :).

January 21, 2010 - 12:32 pm Bryan - Thanks Heather, I know isn't it an awesome venue? It's really beautiful!

January 21, 2010 - 1:46 pm Erin - so beautiful! awesome job capturing it!

January 21, 2010 - 2:07 pm Stephanie - The photos are beautiful! The first two are my faves :) Great job guys!!

January 21, 2010 - 3:44 pm nancy - beautiful. beautiful beautiful. b-r-a-v-o!

January 21, 2010 - 4:22 pm Bri - Great use of color and lighting in the "blue" picture in the hallway...my favorite...

January 23, 2010 - 10:59 pm Lisa Swartout - LOVE it! Can't wait to see more!

January 24, 2010 - 12:10 am Caleb - Killer venue! I love the mood and feel you were able to capture! And excellent use of off camera lighting, you got some stellar shots! I really like the first couple, very contrasty! GREAT WORK!

January 24, 2010 - 9:53 am Aaron Courter - Bryan, Just wanted to say amazing work. I love it all, you are consistent, simple and clean post processing and you can tell your clients can relax around you. Great job, keep it up! I love what you did with the backlights in this reception. Also, I recognized Laura & Jon's wedding, they are friends of my cousin Ian (in the party) so it was great to see their beautiful pictures! - Aaron

January 24, 2010 - 1:58 pm Hannah - love these. the green seats and cement wall are so neat. beautiful.

January 25, 2010 - 2:32 am Kindra - I love the laughing mom pictures...I want Lindsey's shoes...anyone have a good shoe source for an ivory wedding dress...wedding colors, brown, darker teal color, light blue, and a dark crimson, wine red for contrast...beautiful pictures of course cousins...love you guys. I think you should start taking pictures of your stomach Leah. ;)

February 1, 2010 - 7:43 am Amber Halpin - Amazing job with limited surroundings. Let me say it again....bravo. My favorites in this set utilize the back strobe light. I am baffled by the way you are able to have your subjects so well lit in these conditions without studio lights. Teach me your secrets one of these days! XOXO

February 3, 2010 - 7:26 pm Ryan Flood - Great work, Bryan. Way to make the most of an awesome venue! I particularly enjoyed the shots you got with the bride and groom on the lower floor.

K i m b e r l y & D a n | Wedding

Happy Tuesday! Here’s a fun ring shot from Kimberly and Dan’s wedding. Click here for a slideshow from Kimberly and Dan’s Wedding, we’ll be doing these for every wedding we do in 2010.

January 19, 2010 - 6:08 pm nancy - love it! gor-ge-ous. great edit, too!

January 19, 2010 - 7:23 pm Bryan - Thanks so much Nancy!

January 19, 2010 - 8:36 pm Janna - That's some fantastic bling. Well done, Bryan, you're a true artist.

January 24, 2010 - 1:09 am Sarah Wiesner - Bryan and Leah you are so incredible at what you do. I still get teary over our slide show and I found myself welling up over Kimberly and Dan's and I don't even know them. Great work.

J u d i e & T y

This morning I’m finishing up Judie and Ty’s engagement photos and I wanted to share just one more. I love it when couple’s feel free to interact and Judie and Ty did such a great job just enjoying one another and laughing together.

Bryan

J e s s i e & B r o o k | W e d d i n g

Getting ready shot by Leah

Wheeled chair race with the wedding party

Great ring shot by Leah

The wedding party did an awesome job decorating the getaway car, and here’s the aftermath

Jessie and Brook, thanks for hiring us to be your wedding photographers. We had such a great afternoon with you guys and all of your friends and family.

Bryan

January 13, 2010 - 11:00 pm Lisa Swartout - You guys never disappoint...beautiful, fun, and creative...as always. Great flower shots :-)...LOVE the rings on the spoon!!! So blessed to get to work with you guys!

January 13, 2010 - 11:10 pm Bryan Rupp - Thanks so much Lisa! It's been so great to see you at these last couple weddings! I know I think that the rings in the spoon is a brilliant idea that Leah came up with.

January 13, 2010 - 11:21 pm hannah - love the two far-away shots of them in the building... and the ring shot. great.

January 15, 2010 - 11:48 am Bryan Rupp - Thanks Hannah!

January 19, 2010 - 7:07 am Danny Harrrod - The elevator picture is a prize winner. I have never seen such a creative shot. Nice work. The black and white of the old man holding the cane is moving. They are not just photographs, you are showing us art. The pictures stir up inside us memories and inspiration. Thanks.

J u d i e & T y | Engagement

St. Johns Bridge is my favorite bridge in Portland, so I was so excited when Judie and Ty wanted to do their engagement session there.

Thanks for such a fun session Judie and Ty and for taking time out of your precious vacation to do the shoot! We’re so excited to shoot your wedding at the Allison this summer!

Bryan

January 11, 2010 - 2:04 pm Erin - Wow you guys, this is some of my favorite work by you yet! The framing is fantastic, plus Cathedral Park always reminds me of Sleeping Beauty, so you get bonus points for childhood nostalgia.

January 11, 2010 - 5:09 pm Hannah - i want a print of the b&w of st. johns bridge on my wall. just sayin'. also... when i went to type 'b&w' i accidentally typed 'b$w.' cha ching.

January 13, 2010 - 7:20 pm jacqi - love this shoot! Beautiful.

January 13, 2010 - 8:50 pm Bryan - Thanks so much Jacqi! Thanks for stopping by!

Expecting

This post was meant to be closer to New Years Day, but I think it still applies as we all try to wrap our minds around 2010.
Disclaimer: This post is a bit more wordy than usual!

Around the Rupp house/office, we’ve been thinking a lot about expectations. We’ve asked ourselves what our expectations are for the next year, and how we will measure success. Some of our expectations are positive, helping us get closer to who we want to be. Others are harmful and deceiving, distracting us from the things that matter in life. We wanted to share a few of our thoughts with you about who we want to be as a business, as a family, and as individuals (we feel the three are interconnected).

Business.
Success in 2010 will not be measured by money, recognition, or bookings. Numbers can be deceiving and sometimes things that look like success can come back to bite you. We want to strive towards meaningful connections with people, encouraging interactions, and work that brings freedom to us and those we come in contact with. We need to remain true to our creative vision, and stay dedicated to honestly photographing the best in people and their relationships. In order to do this, we’re aiming for fewer weddings, and a deeper investment in each couple!

Family.
Obviously we have more than just the two of us to take into consideration now. We’re looking forward to joyfully welcoming our first child! We want our home to be a place of freedom and acceptance, which really gives us something to think about as individuals.

Individuals.
Bryan is going to work on purposefully filtering his priorities. He’s rejecting the expectation for himself that he will please everyone all the time.
I am rejecting my pre-conceived expectations of what it means to be the perfect mother, wife, student, and business partner. I need to pursue a truer vision of what those things mean.

In the comments, we’d love to hear what positive things you are expecting for the new year, as well as the harmful expectations you are rejecting (i.e. are you rejecting the stereotype of the traditional do-everything-stressed-out-bride?)

Thanks to every single one of you following our journey. We’re looking forward to sharing 2010 with you!

Leah

Here is a picture of St. John’s Bridge, from Judie and Ty’s Engagement Session which will be appearing soon!

K i m b e r l y & D a n | W e d d i n g

Kimberly, Dan and their wedding party danced down the aisle! Awesome!

Thanks for being awesome Kimberly and Dan, we had such a great time at your wedding!

Bryan

January 4, 2010 - 1:19 pm Jordan - Bryan and Leah, congrats on the baby! Really excited for you two! I have to say that the shot of Kimberly with the blue back-lit rain is the best shot I've ever seen from you guys (though they're all always awesome)... keep it up!

January 4, 2010 - 1:39 pm Kimberly - Oh thank you so much, these are AMAZING!!!

January 5, 2010 - 12:08 pm Sean - These pictures are wonderful. Makes me even more anxious to see the entire set. Bryan and Leah did a great job. I had such a fun time at the wedding and it was a pleasure being Dan's groomsman.

January 7, 2010 - 3:18 pm boone - It was great meeting you both today! By the way, the shot of the bride and groom in b&w is fantastic! And I really like the one of the bride by herself. Great stuff.

January 11, 2010 - 9:05 am Katie Landers - The pictures of the rain are so amazing! I love them! :)

January 11, 2010 - 9:57 am Bryan Rupp - Jordan, thanks so much man! Kimberly I'm so glad you like the photos! Sean thanks for your kind words and I'm so glad you had a good time. Boone, thanks for stopping by man and thanks so much for meeting with Leah and I! It was really great to chat with you and Jacqi!