Kali Lu Photo

Shaun Meng - Hi Kali,

Well, my wife, Brittany, is totally right, and we are the coolest, most funest and exciting family. Now all we need is for our awesomeness to be captured with your amazing talent. Your work is great, and I can guarantee that you will have a great time out on a shoot with the Mengs!

Michelle Georgeson - Why are we the hippiest? hmmm…well Allen and I have been married for 20 years, get us photographed before we get much older. Its been a long time since the last family photo. My kids are growing up and our oldest is graduating high school. I would love to have a new family photo on the wall from Kali to capture this last year. Oh and did I mention we have the most beautiful, photogenic children. Love this idea and we hope to be chosen.

Melani Verner - Oh this is such a fun game! Please pick our family! We don’t need accessories to be hip and stylin’, we are just ourselves, need I say more? We have four children – 2 girls and little twin boys. We love you Kali and love your work! We would love to win a free session with you and your amazing talent!

Terilyn Dallon - 3 generations of fun, love, support and definitely some crazy.

Kristi Karren - I’m not sure if a stay-at-home-kiltmaker mom and a Chief Marketing officer dad are hip, but our kids sure make us that way. This spring marks the last spring we’ll have together before our oldest graduates HS and moves on to somewhere that Heaven only knows as a young missionary. Holy Cow!! An awesome photo shoot would be really great, especially now.

Briana - I would love to win this one! We are so excited to be welcoming a second baby boy to our family this May and would love to celebrate with some updated family pictures! I could say I’m hip because I love your photography right!? Not that I usually am that hip, but we are a loving little family that loves to spend time together, wether its camping, playing games, gardening, or going to the park. Those things are hip right?

Kristen Smith - Kali! I just saw this post and was so excited about it! You already know we love your photography and I’m thinking, two weddings with my family isn’t enough… although you have probably had enough of Brett’s ridiculous dancing!

We’ll need to find a ocean cruiser bike with a basket for the wee one this time though!

Brett and I would absolutely love to work with you again when our June Bug arrives!

Jenn Underwood - I would love to win this!!! You do beautiful work and I’m sad to admit that we’ve never had family photographs taken. Not sure how hip we are, but I know you’d find our beauty in your lens!

Katie - We are a hip crazy country family of 7! We are a very happy and unusual blended family!! We love the outdoors and spending as much time together as a family! Unfortunatly with money and time we have not had a family picture in years! My youngest almost 3 is not in a complete family picture yet! How I would appreciate a family picture representing all 5 kids personalities!! It would be my prize possesion on my wall!! Thank you for this opportunity!! Take care!!!

Raquel Leal - I would LOVE to win a family session with you! We can meet you in SoCal or Seattle! I am dying to have a film session of our family done and you are so amazing at what you do! Plus we are totes hip and I think our kids would have lots of fun playing together too! <3

Heather maggio - We all deserve something fun, so to say I’m more deserving then the next person feels weird to me. However, I would love to win this because my three girls are growing up so fast and I’m a horrible photographer:-( I just can’t capture them and who they are in photos. When we have been able to afford a photographer, I feel I can see my princesses soul and true personality. It has been too long since we had family pictures and I fear time is slipping away. I would love to capture my little girls, age 11, 8, and 6 before I look back on teenagers who are too busy for family pictures. thank you for your blog and chance to win

Margeemay Wilson - us…Well if you don’t count a Sears portrait 8 years ago, which I don’t (: … All of us have big personalities and live life passionately. Tho I think of myself hip in an artsy way and my kiddos awesomely hip, my engineer husband is well, let’s just say he could use a boost! We live in a hundred year old house and love all things vintage! When it comes to the important things tho, we love each other and I would be honored to have that captured.

Amy - OOOO! Please pick us….wait all these others are awesome too! I’m glad I’m not you stuck picking!!!
Why is our family hip enough?! I can’t say that we are hip enough but we are pretty crazy! Brad and I have had a cross border long distance romance and once we were married and in the same country we were crazy enough to add three monkey’s to our family in three and a half years. Now we are about to embark on a new adventure as a family. We are getting ready to leave the sweet Pacific Northwest and start all over again in Canada! Living through the immigration process is pretty crazy but moving a family of five over six thousand miles in a two door Toyota Echo is INSANE!!! I would love to have some awesome photos of us in the place that we fell in love and welcomed out sweet babies who are handling the idea of such a massive change and move like champs!

angie cox - There are some long ones on here so Im going to try to keep mine simple as that is our family. Simply awesome! 15 years as a couple with two kids are anything but average. They dont stay still for a camera, so if you want lifestyle – with us that is what you will get. Dad is a DORK, he plays with his girls like there is childhood buddies. Were not afraid to get dirty and down for anything you can throw at us. Jeremy and I have worked hard ever since he lost his job 3 years ago to build businesses that will support our kids and give them the life I had always dreamed for them. Today we are closer to that but still working our tails off to complete it. Our new home is in the country now where we enjoy a much simpler life. A little 1960′s rambler with a big yard and cherry tree with a homemade swing. I think a session in our new home done lifestyle would be so very perfect and the cherry on the top of our dream. This home is where we wanted to be and worked to for the last 15 years. I love your work and I think it would fit it perfectly. Angie

Lexia - oh man, please pick us!!
why do we deserve this? because i’m a photographer i am always documenting for other people, capturing their moments and their lives. i document people’s weddings yet we could never afford our own so we eloped and had a point and shoot. i document people’s families in lifestyle sessions (just like this!) but we’ve never had one of our own. the last time all four of us got into the same photograph was over 2 years ago. i dont want to be the mom that is absent from the family albums. i dont want my kids to look back and wonder why mama never hugged or kissed them in pictures, why it appears that only daddy was ever around. When they look back on their family albums i want them to see me holding them, and for that to elicit memories of what it felt like. how it felt to be so small and to be wrapped up in their mama’s arms. when i am older and my babies no longer fit into my lap, i want to be able to have a visual record of what that ‘felt’ like. i want to remember the weight of their bodies on my chest and in my arms and on my shoulders. i want to see and feel what their little hands felt like as they pulled my finger along to come see something. i hate that i’m not in our pictures, and this year i have to vow to change that. help us kali!
why might we make good subjects? well, we’ve JUST moved to portland! we are not yet moved into a cute house, and are living in a little apartment right now. BUT we DO have an all white room with a mattress on the floor with lots of white sheets and bedding. that’s it…. 1 bedroom, 1 mattress, 4 people, 2 dogs, and lots-o-white. a few terrariums, very minimalistic/modern and big windows. in June we’ll be moving to a cute cute cute historic home that we’ll be renovating with TONS of white, hardwood floors, raw ceilings, black framed windows and lots of mid-century modern and rustic decor. my favorite design blog is the rustic modernist, which will be our inspiration for everything (better yet, just check out the pinterest board: http://pinterest.com/lexiafrank/for-the-home/). also, i have a wealth of clothes that we can style, from flowy whimsical dresses to big off the shoulder white t-shirts for lounging in the bed. my kiddos are the coolest 2 and 4 year olds ever, with their shaggy hair, bed-wrestling tactics, and their LOVE of cuddling each other (boys cuddling are the sweetest things ever). we love to go outdoors to hike and skip stones in rivers, head to the rocky coast, Dustin (my super handsome husband…) plays guitar, Tav (my four year old) plays the violin, and i was a ballet dancer and illustrator. we’re big into art at our house, with a full size easel and lots of paint and canvases. ok, so we’re pretty hip. and we are also in need of some photography that includes us as a whole, because although my boys do not lack for photos of themselves, we lack for the ‘realness’ of a lifestyle session with us actually in it. and, we would APPRECIATE you. there is nothing worse than doing something for free and not being fully appreciated. but this would mean so much to me, and we would be BEYOND grateful! whoever wins this is LUCKY LUCKY LUCKY and i hope they understand the value of what is being offered here!

Whitney - ummmmmm. duh. we just moved into a new (but really old. 1912 to be exact) home and I would KILL to have a relaxed family session here! YES PLEASE.

Kali Vise - Oh man, I wish we were hip! We are pretty fun though, I know that for sure! We don’t have a long history as a family but in the past 4 years we have packed in as much as possible. From love at first sight, to planning a wedding in 4 months to welcoming our son this last April and now awaiting on daughters arrival in July….we love our life and we love living it to the fullest. Documenting our life with pictures is one of our favorite things. We have photographed our life since the night we first met. I think there is something so lovely about real film photos and being able to decorate our home with amazing pictures of our family of four would mean so much to us!!

Rhianna - I am not necessarily hip, but our family rocks. We’ve been through a lot in the last few years with my husband losing his job therefore making us have to move into my inlaws house for a year, which in the middle of that time our 3rd child was born. Things have finally started looking up for us when my husband got a job here in Seattle and we moved into our own home (which is pretty retro and hip!) and are feeling very blessed with all the things that have turned around in our lives. We are finally blessed with being a family again after feeling very disjointed during our time between jobs and living in someone else’s home.
I’ve been hoping to get some real family pics done since our family has grown so much in the last few years and we didn’t have the finances to afford an actual session with a photographer, although my sister took some pretty good pictures of us. Lifestyle photos capture such an amazing side of things and I’ve never experienced a lifestyle session. I love and appreciate your perspective in photography. Thanks for considering my family of 5…. Kyle, Rhianna, Mayah (4.5), Sammy (3), and Aubrey (1.5).

Melanie Cameron - We are crazy, disjointed, unorganized, and at times a little dysfunctional. Our four kids keep us busy. They like to quarrel, but in the end, would do anything to protect each other…maybe even adore each other (though they won’t admit it!) Having our youngest with disabilities has made our family more compassionate, our kids more accepting. All these things may not make us hip, but they make us REAL (REALLY HIP? Ha ha)

Meredith - I have spent the last few years getting really beaten down. I lost my sister, a couple pregnancies, and feared I would lose my mind. But with the help of my family (particularly my mom and aunts) I have really been able to feel almost whole again. And now I have this beautiful daughter. I cannot wait to watch her grow, as painful as it will be to do so without my sister, and make her feel as much a part of this sisterhood of women as I do. I look forward to pointing back to this time in my life to illustrate to her that we have so much more strength in us than we could ever imagine.

Zalmy - oooooo!! pick me!!

I’m a photographer who never gets on the other side of the fence. But wants/needs/is dying to. I’m a also a rabbi, got a beautiful wife, 4 kids (oldest is 6) with another on the way. Do I deserve a free session? Nah. Do I want one? Heck yeah!!