One of my favorite things is photographing my sweet daughter on film in our everyday life. Â The color, gasp–so vibrant and full of life. Â Here is a sampling of our awesome summer together. Â Film stocks: Â Fuji 400H and Kodak Gold 200
Marla Cyree of Simply Splendid specializes in film photography in Portland, Oregon as a newborn, family, and wedding photographer.
I often think to myself, “I am so, so lucky to work with the nicest people!” Â It’s almost like a pinch-me sort of revelation over and over again and the gratefulness I have because of it overflows. Â I remember when Emily reached out to me, I liked her immediately and when we had our Skype […]
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“Now that I have your heart by heart, I see.” -Elise Bogan In the Pacific Northwest, a winter wedding–even an elopement is typically indoors.  With this wedding inspiration shoot, I wanted to work with other Portland wedding vendors to create a visual explosion of romance, vibrant color, and sweet, endearing love indoors.  The theme of […]
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“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.  She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never.  A mother is something absolutely new.” -Osho Life often turns out a little differently than we imagine it to, doesn’t it?  I think when we’re young and in our late teens through our […]
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When a photographer is asked to photograph another photographers anything really, it comes with a bit of nerves and a whole lot of gratitude.  When another photographer asks you to photograph their wedding, it comes with another dimension of nerves and even more gratitude.  Kara, the bride, was wonderful to work with!  She was organized, knew […]
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I’ve been wanting to post this beautiful Mt. View Orchards wedding for a long time now and since it happened at the end of the 2015 season, let’s just say I’m a smidge behind. Â This event was truly life-giving to me and I loved everything about it, it helped incredibly that I photographed it entirely […]
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As a wedding photographer based in Portland, Oregon, it’s somewhat rare to be asked to photograph a wedding in Southern California, but earlier this year I did and I was so very thrilled.  Not just because of the opportunity I was being given to work as a destination wedding photographer, but because the bride is someone I […]
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I love this month’s theme!!! Summer it’s all about light for me too. Marla I love your film work. And those very first four pictures are stunning. Colors are so crisp and light is soft and beautiful. I always enjoy your work so much.
Love these. Great light. Harsh mid day light handled just beautifully. Love the BW landcape too
Beautiful light, as always, and the film truly adds a beautiful depth to the images. Your girls is quite the muse, love them all!
but you did photography light – as you see it, in your world, in our quiet thoughtful way. i like the glistening of it and the way it wraps around your girl like a halo of illumination.