Posts by Cory Parris
PNW Mini Adventure Elopement | Brooke & Austin at Elope 253 and Gold Creek Pond

Brooke and Austin combined a couple of very cool venues for their elopement. They were married at Elope 253 in downtown Tacoma, which is a new venue for me. It was a very cool space designed specifically for elopements with a mid-century design aesthetic that I loved. After the heartfelt ceremony, we did some portraits outside and some family portraits. Then, we drove over to Gold Creek Pond for a celebration and some very cool outdoor portraits. I love Gold Creek Pond. It is a beautiful space that is easy to walk around to give you the feel of a real PNW adventure elopement without the hike. It is a little mini-adventure elopement! Brooke and Austin were a lot of fun to talk to and it was an honor to be part of their wedding day.

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Seattle Court Elopement | Jessica & Phi

I met Jessica and Phi at the Seattle Municipal Court for their wedding. They are a great couple and it was a beautiful day! The Seattle Municipal Court has a beautiful rooftop deck for both the portraits and the ceremony. After their ceremony, we walked around downtown Seattle including the library for some more portraits.

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Mad Art Studio Seattle Wedding | Hayley & Adam

Hayley and Adam were married on a perfectly Seattle rainy day in the spring. They and all of their friends got ready in a space above their wedding venue, Mad Art Studio.

Mad Art Studio is located in the South Lake Union neighborhood just a few blocks from the MOHAI and the Center for Wooden Boats. We went down to Kobe Terrace Park in the International District for their first look and some portraits. Kobe Terrace is filled with cherry trees and was absolutely beautiful for their first look with all of the blossoms.

Then, we went to Kerry Park to get views of the Space Needle and Seattle for more portraits and their wedding party images. After that, we went back to Mad Art Studio for the wedding and reception. Very cool couple and a fun day!

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Seattle Business Headshots and Portraits

Business portraits and headshots make up a huge part of my business. A lot of times places will want this more casual, modern style of business portrait, but will be asking for headshots because that is the term they know. In photographer’s circles this isn’t really considered a headshot because there is much more to it than just the head and shoulders, but how would a client know to call it something different? I have heard these call cinematic style or bokeh style, but whatever it is, I have been doing it for my clients for years. I will go to a business office and create really nice portraits of a bunch of people all in one day. Here is a set I did for a biotech firm in Seattle. All of these images were either taken in the lobby of their building or within a few blocks of walking. For this shoot, I created portraits of around 35 of their employees in one day.

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Smith Tower Wedding | Beka & Joe

I met Beka and Joe at the Smith Tower in Seattle before their wedding. I love Smith Tower and have used in the background of so many of my wedding and elopement images. For this event, the wedding was inside the tower, which I hadn’t been inside for year. I am very glad that camera gear has improved so much in the time between and now has enough dynamic range to allow there to be detail in both the couple and the much brighter background.

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Seattle Courthouse Wedding | Hao & Bonan

I met Hao and Bonan on a cold February day at the Municipal Court of Seattle. We walked around City Hall and the Seattle Public Library before we went back to the courthouse for the wedding ceremony. The ceremony was indoors in the Judicial Library. Then, we went upstairs for a few portraits on the very cold rooftop deck.

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Seattle Court Elopement | Anastasiya & Purvang

Anastasiya and Purvang are a fun and funny couple that are always ready with a joke. They also take their heritages seriously and were married in the traditional marriage outfits of their native Ukraine and India. That made for some very fun and colorful images. We walked from the Seattle Municipal Court into downtown Seattle and back for portraits before returning to the courthouse for their wedding ceremony.

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Northwest Event Show | Seattle Convention Center Summit

Butler Seattle produces the Northwest Event Show. They are also a great source of event transportation. This year the show was at the brand-new Summit building at the Seattle Convention Center. There were tons of cool ideas for corporate events such as Dirtfish driving school and Compass Outdoor Adventures. There were a lot of great venues and some really great food, decoration, and entertainment.

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Seattle Corporate Event | Aramark Chef Competition

Corporate events can be a ton of fun. For this one, I was photographing the West Coast competition for the chefs of Aramark. There were people from convention centers, including Chef Jose from the Seattle Convention Center, stadiums, and national park resorts from Washington, California, and Nevada. The competition was held in the brand-new kitchen at the Seattle Convention Center Summit building.

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Seattle Municipal Court Wedding | Meghana & Pranav

I met Meghana and Pranav at the Seattle Municipal Court for their wedding. At the beginning, you can see how incredibly hard it was raining. So we went and played at the Seattle Central Library. When we came back out, it was much better weather and we even managed to do an outdoor ceremony on the rooftop deck.

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Seattle Convention Center Summit Grand Opening

I had the honor of being the official photographer for the grand opening of the Seattle Convention Center’s new building, Summit. It is truly a spectacular building that has 580,000 square feet of event space. There were three days of events that I covered. The first was the press event and ribbon cutting featuring the state and local politicians that helped to make it happen. It was followed by a hospitality event for all of the industry professionals. The following day the dedication of the ballroom in honor of the long-time president of the board that started working on the convention center in 1982. And finally, on the third day was the public open house with around 5,000 people in attendance. The place is so large, though, that it seemed empty with that many people!

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