Bill Cawley's Blog

Wed - November 28, 2007

Stick a fork in it - It's done

This blog has served me well for almost 2 years and it's time to upgrade. Please click here to be redirected:

Go to the new blog

The new blog is powered by Wordpress and is much more flexible as well as being easier and faster for me to keep updated. I'll also be able to embed video clips and have ad free comments (that really annoyed me about this one, having ads on my comment pages, bleh!). All of that will translate into a much better experience for both of us. For those of you that keep track of me with an RSS reader or service, the options just got a lot better too, you'll have to go to the new blog and re-subscribe, but you'll be able to choose all entries, all comments or subscribe by individual categories. Pretty cool, huh? I think so. This blog and it's entries will hang around for your amusement and mine for the foreseebable future, so links to here (like the ones on my custom wedding pages) will keep working.

See you at the new blog!

~Bill

Posted at 09:12 PM

Sun - November 11, 2007

Beth + Phil: The wedding

I had the pleasure to photograph Beth and Phil's wedding Saturday. With a fun and relaxed group of friends and family they were married at the Lake Union Crew House in North Seattle. The weather was unseasonably perfect for a November wedding in the NW. One of their best friends became ordained to perform the ceremony and Sean , my fellow photographer, dubbed him 'Friar Todd', it was fitting. :-) The wonderful food (really wonderful) was provided by Seasoned in Seattle.

Here are a few of my favorite images from the night. :-)

They planned their portraits for just after sunset, a time when the sky and the Seattle skyline are beautiful. But the fact is these two showed so much love they could have been anywhere and anytime and it would have been easy to get great portraits of them together. :-)

Above: The recently ordained Friar Todd

Above: The toasts were moving and plentiful

Thanks you two, I had a wonderful time at your wedding and I wish you a long and beautiful life together. :-)

~Bill

Posted at 08:40 AM

Mon - October 29, 2007

Senior: Hilary

My fall schedule for senior portraits is winding down, but it's been fun! Here are a few images of Hilary, a Rainier High School class of 2008 senior, she brought her mom and little brother with her and we all had a blast. :-)

It was a beautiful fall day and we had a great sunset on the beach!

Thanks for looking!

~Bill

Posted at 07:45 AM

Wed - October 24, 2007

Giselle + Jeff: The Wedding

The smallest most intimate wedding I've been to, Jeff and Giselle celebrated in high style with their closest friends. It was beautiful!! :-)

I started the day with Giselle and her friend Fatima at Fatima's house in West Seattle. What a perfect place, the natural light in their house is amazing. The ceremony, reception and dinner were at Canlis Restaurant in North Seattle.

I had a wonderful time, I hope I see everyone there again! :-)

:~)

~Bill

Posted at 12:43 PM

Mon - October 22, 2007

Creative Suite 3

The fedex man just brought me a couple packages, one of which has my software updates for all the Adobe products I use every day. It's a little like Christmas! Before I tore into the package I set it on some white seamless and did my best impression of a product photographer:

OK now I'm going to ~~play~~ get to work with my new ~~toys~~ tools... ;-)

Posted at 11:51 AM

Sun - October 21, 2007

Meagan + Emmanuel

Meagan and Emmanuel had beautiful fall weather for there wedding last weekend in Renton. Meagan met Emmanuel when she was doing Peace Corp work in Africa. It was an uphill battle to get the paperwork in place for Emmanuel to be able to come to the US and be married. I was very pleased to be the photographer at this celebration, it was, in many ways, a triumph for this wonderful couple and their family and friends.

Here are a few of my favorites from the day:

Posted at 11:40 AM

Playing Catchup...

Some days it seems there is more that I'm not getting done than I am getting done... I haven't been blogging much at all the last month or so because I've been super busy! But I'm going to be posting a lot over the next few days since there are tons of cool jobs I've got that no one has seen... ;-)

And... One cool thing that we've ben working on lately is the new windows in the house. Here are a couple shots... Exciting stuff (for me at least!).

Rafael and Jeff putting the first window into place:

The semi-finished product:

Better get back to work... ;-)

~Bill

Posted at 11:30 AM

Fri - October 19, 2007

Senior: Joel

Joel's a senior at the Shelton High School and he and his family live on a beautiful farm near the Skokomish River. He got permission from a landowner with property on the river banks to drive his Jeep down to the river for part of the session. Tons of fun and a cool place to shoot too!