Life is Truth

Life is genuine experience. Being caught in the rain and the only one around to see the rainbow. Running out of gas on a down-slope and rolling to the gas pump. Bumping into a good friend on the street that you were just thinking about and changing your plans to catch up. Swimming in the ocean with a horse.

Life is rock and roll. Listening to vinyl on your own Zenith consol. Our favorite vinyl album is Bob Dylan’s “Nashville Skyline.” Our favorite band of all time is Ween. Cory still has his “Thriller” album. LaRae still has “Like a Virgin”.

Life is the 80s. When hangin’ with us you will hear words like: awesome, dude, totally, extreme, that rocks, and like wicked – can you dig? We both wear Converse All Stars. We remember needing a quarter and a phone booth to check in with parental units. Our first game system was an Atari. Pitfall rocks! Cory wore parachute pants.

Life is preserving all the truthful, funny, poignant, or just plain real moments in life. We feel that by sharing ourselves with others we are rewarded with a unique glimpse of life through our lens.

Life is being children of the 70s growing up in suburban America meeting at a doughnut shop. If that’s not sweet, what is? LaRae was 15, Cory was 17. The year was 1991. We first danced to “More Than Words” by Extreme; LaRae donning braces, Cory’s recently removed (don’t laugh). We married 5 years later and have been collaborating as a team since then. Our photography business has been growing since our start in Puyallup, Washington in 1998. In 2003 LaRae discovered our future in the Center of the Universe. Fremont, a vibrant artist neighborhood north of downtown Seattle, nestled next to the Lake Washington Ship Canal, is a community where we have found our home and are continually growing roots.

Life is community. We are members of the Fremont Chamber of Commerce and Fremont Arts Council. We’ve recently moved into a new office space located in the brand new Fremont Space Building, a building filled with a dynamic mix of professional artists and businesses. We are active chairpersons and volunteers of the Fremont First Friday Art Walk.

Life is freedom. We sold our car in November 2007 to get more exercise and we use the Zipcar/Flexcar program for some errands and we utilize it for all photography assignments. Zaip/Flexcar vehicles are all within a 1-3 block walking distance of our home and we totally dig being a part of a community car program.

We are a wife and husband team and have photographed all photography sessions together since 1998. We believe that our collaboration with our clients and subjects and our strong professional relationship is what makes our work stand out.

We work from our home in Chicago, Illinois and Seattle, Washington and our office in the Fremont Space Building. We both actively pursue various editorial projects. Our assignments, including wedding photography, have taken us from Washington State to Idaho, Oregon, Texas, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Hawaii, France, Italy, Mexico, and 34 of the continental United States during a 10,053-mile, four-week road trip.

LaRae & Cory Lobdell