Thanks for stopping by Blaine and Bethany's brand new blog! Our blog will be consistently updated with new photos from weddings, portraits, and random life stuff, so check back often and leave us a comment!
We are based in beautiful Hood River, Oregon and shoot just about everything, but specialize in wedding, portrait, and commercial photography. We LOVE our career as photographers and feel so blessed to provide others with photos that they fall in love with.
We just added a new page to our website called “Raves” where we snagged bits and pieces from our amazing clients thank-you cards and emails. Not sure why we didn’t post this stuff earlier!?
Check it out on our website!
PS- The image was taken at Michael and Shelly’s wedding reception at the beautiful Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood. It started snowing… in AUGUST!! Luckily the reception was inside the nice & warm lodge. :)
For most all wedding photographers in America, this is by far the busiest time of the year. Bethany and I have shot 7 weddings in the past month and have another this weekend in Michigan and then another the next weekend in San Francisco. So, it’s been a bit crazy to say the least! Emails need responding, calls need returning, and we’re up to our eyeballs with photos to edit and albums to design!
We’re not complaining in the least bit because we absolutely LOVE our career as photographers but at times you get a little weighed down and tired. But then…. then…. I arrive at the office this morning @ 10 (after editing photos till 4:30AM last night) and I click on the email from Megan & Kelly, who’s wedding we had the honor of photographing on Saturday. Their words from the email after viewing their slideshow:
OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!! we have just been oohing and aahing and laughing all morning!! those pictures are all just phenomenal - not that i am at all surprised, just thrilled above and beyond any possible expectation. you both are just insanely talented, creative, present, magical! kelly and i can’t believe we get to enjoy these the rest of our lives - can’t believe there are more where that came from!!
thank you, thank you, thank you, blaine & bethany. we don’t even know how to begin to thank you.
much love - m&k
All I can say is wow, that feels sooo sooo amazing to provide our clients with a product they are beyond in love with. That is what gives us so much satisfaction and it really makes us realize how fortunate and blessed we are to provide couples and families with great photos they’ll forever cherish. Can’t wait to photograph our next wedding now! :)
Here are a couple photos of Megan and Kelly from Saturday, and you can view their entire slideshow here! http://www.blaineandbethany.com/slideshows/megankelly/
Wow, we’ve gotten soo behind on blogging the weddings we shoot… we’ve been shooting too much and not blogging!
We always get the slideshow up within a day or two of the wedding, and then get the rest of the photos up within 2-4 weeks, so even though all that stuff is already up, we still like to blog about them too. 
So here are some of our favorites from Jake and Ashley’s wedding at the Mt. Hood Bed & Breakfast. Their wedding day had some crazy weather which you’ll see in the photos! The day started off being totally clear, hot, and muggy, and then it quickly clouded over and rain was threatening the ceremony. Luckily, the ceremony went off without a drop of rain (beautiful clouds for our photos) but literally 15 minutes after the ceremony, it started DUMPING rain like crazy. The reception was all set up to be outside, and had to be quickly moved inside. All the guests helped out and everyone did it with a huge smile on their face and had lots of fun. Including Jake and Ashley! Luckily the Mt. Hood Bed & Breakfast has an inside backup location for when the rain comes like that. The reception was quickly moved inside and looked just as great inside as it did outside.
Click here for Jake and Ashley’s Slideshow
Click here for Jake and Ashley’s Proofing Gallery (all the photos!)
We’re leaving in a few minutes and will be out of the office for the next week to shoot a wedding in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic! Should be a good time! :)
Here is a pic of the all inclusive resort we’re staying in!
A couple months ago when we were updating our website, I took a screenshot of when all the photos were open and I used Apple’s Exposé to reveal them all at once, with just a move of the mouse. Apple is so genius!
I’m finally putting this on our blog so I can delete it off the desktop already! 
Wow. You guys are talented!
Just cruising the net trying to get ideas to improve my shooting and stumbled on your site. Very impressed with your artistic abilities as well as your shots.
Do you guys use HDR? Some shot look like it but not sure.
David
Ps. website is great also.
thanks david!
glad you like our work.
We don’t use any HDR at all actually… we just always try to shoot in great light, and also Lightroom has some adjustments that make the RAW conversions look semi-HDR.
Blaine
Wow, we are sooo blessed to love our work and have the greatest clients EVER!
We shot Trista and Greg’s wedding a few days ago (slideshow is here!) and they just stopped by our office and gave us the sweetest thank you gift ever… peaches and cherries, picked from Trista’s parents orchard (Alice’s Orchard) just this morning! Trista said “hope you guys like fruit…” Haha, that is half the reason why we moved to Hood River, for the fruit!
Thank you so much Trista and Greg… your wedding was amazing!
Blaine & Bethany
Mari-Beth and Joe’s Wedding Slideshow is now online! Their beautiful July 26th wedding ceremony was at St. Mary’s Catholic Church and the reception was at the Hood River Inn Gorge Room.
Check out the slideshow here- http://www.blaineandbethany.com/slideshows/maribethjoe/
Full post with more photos coming soon!
Emily and Mark’s slideshow from their beautiful wedding on Saturday at Mt. Hood Organic Farms is online! Check it out here:
http://www.blaineandbethany.com/slideshows/emilymark/
Here are a couple of my favorite shots-
See them all in the slideshow! http://www.blaineandbethany.com/slideshows/emilymark/
Stacey and Jeremy’s wedding on June 27th was such a blast to photograph for Bethany and I! We had the privilege of meeting Stacey and Jeremy at Joy and Jason’s wedding last summer in Hood River. Jason is Stacey’s brother… It’s always such an honor to shoot the weddings of multiple siblings because we get to see the families again and its so much fun! At Joy and Jason’s wedding, Stacey saw the reception slideshow and immediately asked if we were available for her date the next year. Luckily our calendar was open that day and it all worked out! It really put the pressure on us when Stacey mentioned that they didn’t even shop around to look at different photographers because they knew we were the ones.
Stacey and Jeremy and most of their family all live in New Jersey but they decided to have a destination wedding in the Finger Lakes region of New York! Wow, it was so gorgeous up there. They chose the most beautiful venue ever too… The Belhurst Castle on Lake Seneca!
**Click HERE** for the online slideshow
**Click HERE** for all the photos on the proofing site
Some of our favorites for the blog:
Our “day before” portrait session at the gorgeous Fox Run Vineyards:
The rehearsal dinner setting!
Belhurst Castle-
Wedding day details-
Stacey shortly after getting her beautiful dress on-
The balcony of her parents suite at the castle-
A gorgeous B&W portrait that Bethany shot-
The guys hangin in the bar-
Stacey and her Father coming down the aisle-
Incredible setting for the ceremony, Lake Seneca in the background-
This little mohawk kid was quite the photographer 
Stacey’s parents leaving the ceremony and sharing a moment-
After the ceremony chilled wine & appetizers was well received in the summer heat!
We went down the boat dock on the lake and got some great shots down there-
Bethany snapped a pic of me almost falling into the water to get the previous shot… I was barely holding on!
A few portraits with Stacey and Jeremy-
Reception!
This little girl was hilarious… wish I had a video camera… her moves were so awesome. 
Grandmas classic “Oh no not a picture of ME!” look on her face 
Someone had the great idea to play the song “Stacey’s mom has got it going on” song and by the looks of this photo… Stacey’s mom really enjoyed it. 
Mohawk boy again!
The reception slideshow was a hit! 
Nighttime at the Belhurst Castle- 
Thanks and congratulations Stacey and Jeremy! 
**Click HERE** for the online slideshow
and
**Click HERE** for all the photos on the proofing site
We’re slacking on our new blog! So much to do and so little time… We’re getting serious now though. So here goes our first wedding post.
Bethany and I were so stoked when Melissa asked us to shoot her wedding! The Berghs (Melissa’s family) are super longtime family friends of ours, we go way back… We always love shooting weddings of close family and friends. When we’re running around all day and night shooting everything people always say “put down that camera! stop working and enjoy yourselves now!” but honestly we love shooting more than anything, so I don’t think putting down the camera to enjoy ourselves is going to happen anytime soon.
Their wedding was at the beautiful Coronado Cays Yacht Club on Coronado Island, San Diego. Melissa and Brian were obviously beyond excited (just look at the photos of them two!) to tie the knot, after like 5 years of dating! About time guys… 
Here are some of our favorites from the day!
To see their entire slideshow GO HERE- http://www.blaineandbethany.com/slideshows/brianmelissa/
Melissa’s gorgeous dress-
Melissa absolutely beaming after getting her dress on-
The guys-
Melissa and her dad share a laugh seconds before they walk down the aisle together-
Melissa’s grandparents… adorable.
Melissa’s mom Donna was just a little excited to see her daugher coming down the ailse 
Mark & Melissa
Congrats Brian and Melissa!!! I hope your THAILAND honeymoon was incredible!
Remember the slideshow! - http://www.blaineandbethany.com/slideshows/brianmelissa/
gosh i love the dress picture at the top in particular!
wow these actually brought a tear to my eye. They are just what wedding shots should be.
YOU GUYS KICK ASS.
that is all I wanted to say
dang i wish i was going with yall