Jaquilyn Shumate Photography – Tacoma Portraiture & Collage Art Seattle & Tacoma Editorial & Portrait Photographer

We recently went for a walk.

As we have mentioned before, one of our favorite things to do together is drive around, photographing each other. It helps us refine our photography, and we get to practice being in front of the camera!

Jaquilyn and I really believe in being local tourists. It’s easy to travel to distant lands to be tourists — but to be tourists in your own area is a lot cheaper and can be just as rewarding. Here are a few photographs we shot on a recent ferry ride up to Seattle! By the way, if you’re not in the Seattle/Tacoma area, come visit. You’ll love it!

Although we spend the majority of our time shooting digital photography, we enjoy using our Holga from time to time. The low-quality construction of this toy camera creates issues — vignetting, blur, exposure problems and distortion — all of which add to the personality of the images. Check out a few of these frames from the past several months.

We recently traveled to Enterprise, Oregon, to attend the Palmer family reunion (Travis’ mother’s side). It is close to the town of Joseph (named after Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe) and beautiful Lake Wallowa in the mountains of northeastern Oregon. We enjoyed relaxing with family and taking some pictures of small-town America and the pristine beauty of the area.



We got some delicious fudge and homemade vanilla cola at Mad Mary’s Soda Shop!



Grandma Palmer is vicious when it comes to checkers.

We loved spending time with our nieces Reagan, Kelsey and Gwyn, pictured here!



These clouds blew my mind… AWAY!

Our idea of a perfect date is driving around town, taking pictures of each other. The last few images were taken on a hill overlooking Tacoma, where I asked Jaquilyn to be my girlfriend three years ago when she was visiting from California.