Payton & Isabelle | Newcastle Golf Course | Angela Marvel Photography

 A beautiful engagement proposal session at Newcastle Golf Course in Washington State.

Award winning portrait photographer, Angela Marvel, is a natural light Puget Sound Photographer specializing in children, family, and senior photography. Outdoor sessions take place in Pierce County around Tacoma, Puyallup, Edgewood, Fife, FME, Sumner, Orting or Lakewood. King County Sessions usually take place in Seattle, Auburn, or Federal Way. 

Contact angelamarvelphotography@gmail.com for a session!

Couple Session | Wright Park | Angela Marvel Photography

Couple Photography Session at Wright Park in Tacoma, Washington. Wright Park while is usually known for its gorgeous fall color, has a lot to offer in winter too. Beautiful trees, the pond, and a wall to give many varied looks for a session!

The best part of winter sessions is that the sun is low enough in the sky to allow for more mid-day gorgeous light. This session took place at noon on a Saturday, which to most photographers would be a no go time of day at most other times of the year. Another great thing about winter is how you can vary clothing choices. You can show off your longer sleeve shirts and cute jackets. 

Contact me to book a 2022 winter session!

Award winning portrait photographer, Angela Marvel, is a natural light Puget Sound Photographer specializing in children, family, and senior photography. Outdoor sessions take place in Pierce County around Tacoma, Puyallup, Edgewood, Sumner, Orting or Lakewood. King County Sessions usually take place in Seattle, Auburn, or Federal Way. 

Contact angelamarvelphotography@gmail.com for a family session!

Drew and Denise | Auburn Couple Photographer

Couple Photography Session at Mill Pond Park in Auburn, WA

10 years married | Tacoma Couple Photographer

You don't have to be an engaged couple to do a couples session! This couple was celebrating their 10 year anniversary. Perfect time for a session!

Jeff and Jamie | Tacoma Couples Photographer

I am pretty behind on blogging my images. Figure I can either blog or actually edit the session :) But as I was going through all the photos I took last month, I forgot I hadn't posted these yet. Just had to share :)

10 Years | Tacoma Couples Photographer

Today is my 10 year wedding anniversary :)

10 years ago today my wedding ceremony didn't exactly go as planned. Things went wrong (....a minister that was incompetent...), flowers were totally wrong and not anything like I ordered (thus no beautiful altar) and then some photos were blurry and not what I wanted either.  I often look back at my ceremony and think about how we should have eloped to Hawaii.

However, on a happy note, my reception was a blast and totally was wonderful with some of the best vendors!

Back to the photography, I have always been a little sad about my photos. There were some wonderful shots, but nothing overly romantic or carefree about them, they were more formal and posed. Of course learning and understanding photography in the last 10 years I have grown to really know what I like and for the last few years I have been waiting for July 2011 because I KNEW I wanted to have better photos done for our 10 year anniversary.

I wanted everything to be perfect. I wanted a white dress. I wanted a fun location. This time was going to be the redo.

Now granted when I first planned this all out 2-3 years ago we were going to renew our vows on the beach in Maui at sunset....that didn't quite work out money wise. But that didn't mean I still didn't want some wonderful romantic photos to celebrate this time in our lives. (a later post will be more on what we are doing today with more photos, stay tuned)...

I went and bought a white dress (that I will be wearing all day today) and was determined to get some photos taken of us. Now since starting my self portrait 52 week challenge this year I have gotten pretty good at doing self portraits, so instead of hiring someone, or waiting until we were out on our anniversary, I set up the tripod and did a mini session in Downtown Tacoma last week.






and here is one from our anniversary trip to Vegas :)

Jenny and Jake | Tacoma Engagement Photographer

Had such a fun session with these two in Tacoma. We walked around downtown Tacoma and found some really fun spots. This was actually the first time I had done a full fledged engagement session and I gotta say, it was FUN! I might need to do a few more of these! Enjoy Jenny and Jake :)

Sneak Peak | Tacoma Engagement Photographer

Just a sneak peak from today's session! I can't wait to share more from this session. It was the first time I ever shot an engagement and it was so much fun!!