Well, we’ve scheduled our first beach trip for Saturday, July 2. The mornings full, but we still have room in the afternoon.

We’ve discovered a fantastic beach where it’s rarely windy, unlike most of the Oregon Coast. Most of the time, it’s shorts and t-shirts weather, not sweatshirts like most of the coast.

Plus it’s got everything you might want for beach pictures, and a whole lot more.

You can have beach pictures for all or part of your session, but in order to schedule a session, you’ll need to get in for your design consultation ahead of time.

If the beach is special to you, and you’d like part of your senior pictures there, then call us at 503-588-0902 to schedule your consultation.

Ran across this in my wanderings of the internet. I’ve listened to it about a dozen times since I found it earlier this evening. Love the sound, and love the fact that it’s musicians from all around the world collaborating to create something great.

Did you know that only about67% of those who started high school with you graduated with you?

Pretty amazing, huh.  But you stuck in there, worked hard, and you did it!

Now, on to the rest of life, and oh what a wonderful adventure it is. Your potential is unlimited if you simply have a dream, believe in yourself, and work to make it happen.

We’re counting on you, because you are our future!

A Very Unique Senior Pictures Experience…

Nightscapes – senior pictures after dark.

The world looks different; it feels different after the sun goes down.

Night people are indeed a different breed of people.  And that’s what make it so fun to do these senior portrait sessions.

This is but one example of our Nightscapes Senior Pictures sessions.

This is one of my favorites from last year.  There’s so many stories that could be told with this photograph, limited only by imagination, creativity and time to create them.

When I look at this, I get a vision of a traveling musician, someone totally on his own, used to playing smoky blues clubs, moving from city to city, looking for the perfect venue, the perfect audience, all because nothing stirs his soul more than the music he creates and performs.

We’ve found Nightscapes Senior Pictures to be particularly popular with actors, musicians and the like; people who aspire to careers which are predominantly night time careers. They’re also popular with those who love to take advantage of the nightlife scene; dances, concerts, even coffee houses.

But the one thing to keep in mind is that

We only have a  limited number of Nightscapes Senior Pictures sessions available.

We’ll be doing Nightscape sessions between now and the end of October, but we can only do two per week (Tuesday and Thursday evening).  So, if this is the type of senior pictures you’d like to have in your collection, you need to reserve your slot soon.  Call the studio at 503-588-0902, or use the contact form at the top of the page to let us know you’d like something really unusual for your senior portraits.  Schedule your senior pictures consultation, and we’ll get you set up for a fun experience.

Nightscapes – the most unusual senior pictures you’ll see, from Encore! Portrait Design.

It’s one of our most popular safari’s and we’ve scheduled the next senior pictures day at the beach for September 18th.

We have a GREAT place to work; usually no wind, nearly always comfortable for even shorts and a t-shirt, and lots of different things we can do in a short time.

But if you want to be part of it, you have to get in ahead of time for your senior pictures consultation.  That’s where we completely plan out how and where we’ll photograph you to create a set of unique senior pictures just for you.

For more information, see our Senior Pictures at the Beach page.  Then call us at 503-588-0902 or click on the CONTACT button above to schedule your senior pictures consultation.

We know that the current economy has people watching their expenses very carefully, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have the best in senior pictures.  After all, this is a very special year, and you can’t go back a year or two from now when things pick up and have your senior pictures done then.  I’ve seen too many truly awful photographs  posted on Facebook, taken by someone who simply doesn’t know how to create good pictures, and it makes me very sad that some are settling for these for this once in a lifetime year.

So, we’ve put together a very special one-day senior portrait mini-session event.

On Saturday, September 11th, we’ll be scheduling half-hour senior pictures mini-sessions at one of several locations

We’re still working out details, but we’ll probably be at a park/outdoors type setting for half the day and at an urban type setting for half the day.

During each session, we’ll photograph you in one outfit, three or four different settings, and create about 15-20 poses.

We’ll post them on a secure webpage, you’ll pick your favorite, we’ll retouch and finish the image, and you’ll receive an 8×10, two 5×7 and four wallets of that pose, fully finished and ready to celebrate your senior year.

Great senior pictures on a budget – All for $199

Of course, you can order additional prints if you’d like as well at our normal print prices.  You can also have more poses retouched for $15 each, and order additional prints from these as well.

Of course, there’s some requirements to allow us to do this:

• Sessions must be pre-scheduled and pre-paid.  ($100 at the time you schedule the session, the remainder at the beginning of the session)
• No other special senior pictures offers can be combined with this session.
• No Pre-Portrait consultation
• No post-session presentation. Your poses will be posted online, and you’ll pick your favorite.

We can offer this special price because we’re not doing the normal pre-portrait consultation, nor are you coming in for a presentation after your session.  That allows us to eliminate some of the time we’d normally spend, reduce our costs, and offer you a very special deal.  It’s a win-win.

Call the studio today to schedule your appointment.  Our number is 503-588-0902.  Or you can click the contact button at the top of the page and we’ll get back to you.

Half the fee  must be paid when you schedule your time to hold your time in the schedule, and is not refundable should you cancel unless we are able to refill your spot.

What a great deal!.  The BEST in senior pictures at a very affordable price.

My son-in-law is an Air Force Officer, but he’s been relatively safe as a Jag Officer serving in Italy, and now Alaska.  However, I’ve seen him only once in the last two years, and seen my daughter only three times,  and new granddaughter only twice since she was born 17 months ago.

The separation hasn’t been easy.

But I can’t even imagine what it must be like for someone in high school to be separated from a parent for a year; to have them miss all the football games or choir concerts, or plays.  To have them miss you birthdays, or the time when you came home from the DMV with your drivers license, or your prom.

And I can’t even begin to imagine what it’s like to have someone I love serving in a war zone.

But you’ve experienced many of these things yourself.  Your family has born the brunt of the sacrifice, and we’d to say thank you, and to honor you and your family for your dedication to your country.

So we’ve decided to give any senior who’s mother or father is serving on active military duty in either place a free basic senior pictures package, worth $305.

This includes our Basic Senior Portraits Session, an hour long and prints of your choice, up to that value.  If you want a longer session, or more prints, simply pay the difference.

No strings attached.   You pay nothing for either the session or the prints (up to the $305 value of that package).

When you call the studio (503-588-0902) to set up your consultation, simple tell us that you’re calling about the Military Family Special.  Remember, this is for CURRENT ACTIVE DUTY IN EITHER LOCATION ONLY.

However, since we’re bearing all the costs of these sessions, we do reserve the right to limit the number should the response be greater than we can handle.

Bailee is as beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside, which makes her an absolute treat to photograph.    Bright and cheerful with a killer smile and those great big beautiful eyes that just dance and sparkle - Ya just wanna hug her! 

So it was really important that we captured her inner sparkle as well as her terminal cuteness in her senior pictures series.

I think she was pretty nervous when we first started our session, which is pretty normal.  After all, this isn’t something that most seniors do every day.  But once we got rolling, we both had so much fun we didn’t want to quit.  And I think her mom was even more excited about what we were getting than I was.

What made it even more fun is we found new place to work that no one had ever been photographed before and we were able to really explore the possibilities.  I didn’t want to quit, but we had to save some time for her beach senior pictures session (see the calendar for upcoming beach session dates.)

Now’s the time to be scheduling your senior pictures session. 

We’re rapidly approaching the start of school and deadlines for submitting something GOOD to the yearbook.   Call the studio at 503-588-0902, or click on the contact button above and we’ll start by scheduling your senior pictures consultation. 

Then we’ll set out to create some senior pictures for you that will make your friends and family say “THAT’S SO YOU”

Not all senior pictures need to be done outdoors…

We Oregonians love the outdoors, and love our summers and falls, so it’s only natural that when it comes to senior pictures, we tend to do them outside.

But great senior pictures can be created in the studio as well.

Sarah is REALLY into fashion.  She told me at the end of this session her closet is color coordinated by season!  So she wanted some really different, fashion oriented, glamourous senior pictures to add to her collection.

Here’s some of what we created the other day.  She brought four or five of her favorite outfits, and we  had great fun creating something a little different than what you typically see on senior picture websites.

A studio session can be a part of any senior pictures session. 

If this is the type of style you’re looking for, call us at 503-588-0902 or use the CONTACT button above to schedule your senior pictures consultation.  Then we’ll create something that really captures the real you – and make your friends and family exclaim  – “THAT’S SO YOU!”