About Kellie

Kellie Parry graduated from the University of Idaho with her BFA in Interior Design in 2003 and has been living in the Salem area ever since.  She loves pie, sleeping in, coffee, and dancing in the kitchen with her kids.  She and her husband celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary in 2011 and have two beautiful children together.

Kellie enjoys using her camera for more than just portraits and started a Project 365 blog in 2010 which she valiantly attempts to keep up with.  More often then not she uploads a month or more at a time rather then every day.

Kellie’s photography style can be described as a modern take on traditional portraiture with a large emphasis on natural light.  There’s nothing that makes her happier than a beautiful golden hour with a willing subject or two!  Since she lives in the rather wet Pacific Northwest the weather is often a big factor in scheduling portrait sessions.  Kellie prefers to shoot portrait sessions outdoors for a lot of reasons, but the biggest reason is that she finds the interaction of her subjects with their environment to be much more interesting than with traditional studio backdrops.  For that reason Kellie only shoots family sessions outdoors but in order to escape the rain she does have a portable studio set up that she uses for small children and babies on occasion.