8 Saturday's before Christmas!

Can you believe it? Time flies!
Book your shoot now in time for Christmas delivery.

Remember as well as pinup we do:

• Christmas pictures
• Classic portraits
• Senior portraits
• Glamour
• Maternity
• Family
• On location
• Social network pictures(MySpace, Facebook, etc)
• and more!

Vera Vogue

of the Pinup Angles group. Shot yesterday at the 2 year anniversary celebration of Sunken Ship Tattoo.
Halloween is right around the corner, book now for the best slots.
Remember, although this web site and blog mostly caters to our pin-up and vintage shoots, we also shoot

• Professional head shots


• Maternity


• Seniors


• Portraits


• Families and kids


• Profile pictures


• and more!

Sunken Ship Tattoo today

Come to Everet today to see us!

"Stand back ma'am, we have smoke and know how to use it"

In preparation for Halloween we've acquired a fog machine and have been experimenting with it and dry ice.
We got it down now and can create some very cool effects.

Book now for Halloween, our schedule is filling up.

Don't forget we love doing maternity, professional portfolio head shots and just plain old fun profile pictures for MySpace, Facebook etc.

Long time without a post

Summer time flies in the Northwest. I can't believe it's been over a months since my last post. Oh well, the feel of fall is in the air today.

I went to a screening of the movie "The Taken" last night. My first screening and it was a lot of fun knowing the lead actress, Jessica Von, who I'm shooting commercial head shots for.

New Portfolio

I'm doing beta testing now of a new portfolio system created by Deviant Art.

One of the cool things about it is I can post client images with a password that only they can view. This should prove very handy when sending proofs to a client.

I generally shoot a few hundred images in a session. Out of those about 10% go right in the trash (closed eyes, flash failed to fire, etc). Out of the remaining images 10% or so really rock. I upload those proofs for the client to choose their favorites (usually 10) and then do full processing on the client favorites making them perfect for prints and the web.

Check it out here:

http://ric-merry.daportfolio.com/

Let Freedom Ring

I am very grateful to be free today. I spent the 4th of July 24 years ago when that wasn't so in a country where I had no rights.

I'm grateful I can post a beautiful picture of a lovely young woman like this free from censorship, for 2 years that wasn't the case.

We've got some problems but brother let me tell you, there are many places a lot worse.

God bless America and happy Independence Day to all!

-Ric