We fucking love big things in nature
If you live in the Pacific Northwest, you know the drill. Mount Rainier (or Tahoma, as one of its most popular Indigenous names) comes out on a clear day and everyone loses their goddamn minds. We're texting photos to each other. We're posting it on Instagram. We're literally stopping our cars to stare at a mountain.
And it's not just the mountain. We lose it over massive old-growth trees. Moss-covered boulders the size of cars. Waterfalls that make you feel small in the best way possible. Bodies of water so big you can't see the other side.
We love bigness in nature. We celebrate it. We drive hours to see it. We take photos of it and hang them on our walls. We talk about it with reverence and awe.
So why the fuck don't we do that with our own bodies?
The double standard is exhausting
Here's the thing that gets me: we live in a place where "big and beautiful" applies to literally everything except human bodies. Big trees? Majestic. Big mountains? Breathtaking. Big body? Suddenly it's a problem that needs to be fixed.
Bullshit.
Your body is part of nature. We are nature. And if we can celebrate a massive rock covered in moss, we can celebrate your body exactly as it is right now.
Fat liberation meets Pacific Northwest energy
I'm a Seattle photographer who specializes in outdoor boudoir and family portraits for people who've been told their bodies are "too much." Plus size folks. Fat folks. People who've spent their whole lives being told to take up less space.
I want to photograph you the same way we photograph Mount Tahoma: with awe, with celebration, with the understanding that bigness is inherently worthy of being documented and loved.
When you come to me for an outdoor boudoir session or family photos, we're not trying to make you look smaller. We're not angling the camera to "minimize" anything. We're celebrating your body the same way we celebrate big things in nature: because your body is the big thing in nature that we love.
What outdoor photography in the PNW actually means
When I say outdoor boudoir or outdoor family portraits in Seattle, we create art in the same places we take photos of the nature we love. In forests with massive trees. On beaches with big rocks and driftwood. Near waterfalls and rivers and mountains.
Because you deserve to be in those spaces. Not hidden, not minimized, but present and celebrated as part of the landscape.
And for my plus size clients, there's something powerful about being photographed in nature. About seeing your body next to these big, beautiful things and realizing: you fit here. You belong here. You are as worthy of being documented as anything else in this landscape.
This is for queer and polyam families too
This same energy applies if you're coming to me for family portraits. Whether you're a queer couple with kids, a polycule, a chosen family, or any other configuration that doesn't fit the heteronormative nuclear family bullshit.
We don't celebrate just one type of family in the PNW. We celebrate diversity in nature: different ecosystems, different species, different ways of existing. So why would we only celebrate one type of family in our photos?
Your queer family, your polyam family, your chosen family - that's bigness too. Not in size, but in love, in authenticity, in the courage it takes to exist outside what society says is "normal."
Let's photograph that bigness the same way we photograph big trees: with respect, with celebration, with the understanding that this is what beauty actually looks like.
Seattle outdoor photography for bodies that take up space
I want to be very clear about who my outdoor boudoir photography and family portrait photography is for: people who've been told they're too much. Too big. Too fat. Too queer. Too unconventional.
If that's you, I want to photograph you in the Pacific Northwest landscape and show you what I see: someone who fits perfectly into this environment. Someone whose bigness is as natural and worthy as the big things we already celebrate.
Plus size outdoor boudoir in Seattle means we're going to locations where you feel comfortable and celebrated. Private beaches. Hidden forest spots. Places where you can be yourself without worrying about judgment.
And we're going to create images that show your body the way it deserves to be shown: as part of nature, as powerful, as worthy of being documented and loved.
The same energy we have for mountains
When Mount Tahoma comes out on a clear day, we stop everything to appreciate it. We don't think "that mountain would look better if it was smaller." We don't suggest it should wait until it's more symmetrical before we photograph it.
We just love it as it is. Big, powerful and present.
That's the energy I want you to have for your body. That's the energy I bring to every outdoor boudoir session and family portrait session I do in Seattle.
Your body is keeping you alive. Your body is part of the landscape. Your body is as worthy of celebration as any mountain or tree or body of water.
Book your Seattle outdoor photography session
If you're plus size, queer, polyam, or just tired of being told to be smaller, let's work together. I do outdoor boudoir photography and family portraits in Seattle and throughout the Pacific Northwest for people who deserve to be celebrated exactly as they are.
We'll go to beautiful locations. We'll create artwork that show your bigness as the asset it is, not something to hide. And we'll prove that you deserve the same energy we give to mountains and old-growth trees and mossy rocks. Then we create a daily visual reminder to ground in on those harder days to remember this.
Ready to be photographed with the same awe we reserve for big things in nature? Let's make it happen.
