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When I was younger I remember wondering what the Great Wall of China looked like in person.  I had only seen pictures of course, but I tried to imagine the scale of it and what it would feel like to be there and yet at the same time, even then, I never really believed I would […]
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Early in my career I decided that someday I wanted the opportunity to photograph a birth.  I didn’t know how, when, or whom, but it was on the bucket list.  In the spring of last year, the opportunity presented itself: one of the loveliest humans I’ve ever met contacted me and asked if I would be […]
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Jay and Ashlie live in Houston, Texas and were coming to Oregon for a friend’s wedding in Bend over Labor Day Weekend.  Wanting to take advantage of the change in scenery and beauty Oregon has to offer, we coordinated a session for them while they were on their way back to Portland.  How can a Columbia […]
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Having the opportunity to partner with other local creatives is one of my favorite things in this business.  I LOVE working with my amazing clients, but when I work for others my sole focus is that couple or family and how I can turn their desires and dreams into reality.  With inspiration shoots or editorials, I have […]
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All images photographed on film using a Contax 645 camera and Kodak Portra 800 and TMax 400 films. Marla Cyree of Simply Splendid specializes in film photography based in Portland, Oregon as a newborn, family, and wedding photographer.
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I arrived to the wedding location before the bride and when she pulled up and carefully slid out of the car, I may have gasped. Â Simona looked like Eastern European royalty. Â But one of the most amazing things about lovely Simona, is that as beautiful as she is on the outside, she is leaps and […]
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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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