Welcome

Hello Thank you for visiting my new blog. I’m Samantha – photographer, owner, marketing director, set designer and receptionist for Sugar Six. I do it all from taking your phone call to photographing your memories and personally retouching the images to ensure you look your best. Just me – making sure every single client is…

Why is so much missing from the blog?

A LOT is missing from my blog. I know. 😦  Sadly after months and months working with web people we were not able to recover my blog that was lost about a year ago. 12 years of blogging, beautiful wedding stories, tons of memories, hundreds of blog posts…….all just gone because of an unfortunate turn…

Outdoor Summer Mini’s

Time for some outdoor summer mini’s. Boy was this a whirlwind week. The weather held out for us, YAY, and in total i had 16 families come for summer minis. I’m exhausted and recouping but LOOK at all of these gorgeous images! Some of these families i’ve been photographing for over 10 years now so…

Happiest Sitter Ever!

This guy was the happiest sitter i’ve photographed. He & I had an instant connection and he laughed at everything I did. I could photograph him all day long! Sitter sessions are one of my favorites! When babies can sit well on their own, but not yet crawl away, is the ideal time for a…

New Fire Recruit in Lewis County

There’s a new tiny fire recruit in the Lewis County Fire District and I was the first to photograph her! Now that i’m a few months into using my new Chehalis studio i’m loving the new space. The huge magnet walls to hold the backdrops are perfect for family photography and high ceilings are to…

Cutest toddler ever!

Seriously the cutest toddler of all time came to have her photos done. Look at her two little toofies!!!!! This little girl was a smiley little model for me in studio. If you have your own toddler you’d like photographed, and you live in south west washington, visit http://www.sugarsixphotography.com for session details. I offer studio…

Sweet Newborn Boy

This sweet newborn boy was in studio last week and he rocked his session. His family came to me from a small town in south west washington & they brought this amazing elk shed from their land. I love how my vintage hides worked with their antlers & created this beautiful newborn portrait. His family…

A Dear Little Deer

This sweet baby was about two weeks new and slept like a champ during his newborn photo shoot. We were able to get photos in several different cute sets as well as some posed images on a beautiful blue.

First Newborn in the Chehalis WA Studio!

Well it’s official. I’ve photographed my first newborn in my brand new Chehalis WA studio. Such a special moment for me on top of the special moment for the family. This beautiful girl was a champ and the new studio space worked exactly as intended. There’s so much room for me to work that I…

And Baby Makes 5!

One of the benefits for me to my epoxy floors in my new Chehalis WA studio is I can have pets join us in studio! How fun is it to have your dogs join in on your maternity photos? These two are the babies of the family now but soon they will have to share…

The Studio is Ready!

This has been a long journey moving to Chehalis and creating my photo studio from scratch but it’s finally finished. Its not super fancy but it’s MY dream studio space. I finally have super high ceilings so I can have my light at any height I want! I finally have epoxy floors so they are…

Moving to Chehalis Washington!

I have HUGE news! After 30 years in Alaska it’s time to move on and go be in the lower 48 closer to family, interstates & the ocean. After months of discussions, soul searching & house hunting we’ve decided the pacific north west is our happy place. We’ve decided to relocate to Chehalis Washington this…