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Cinematic Family Photography | Portland, Oregon

Hey there...i'm deb.

Portland Family Photographer for the Wild at Heart

I create cinematic, wildly beautiful photographs of the people you love most - because your life deserves to be documented.

I'm an adventurous Portland family photographer, a collector of ordinary magic, and a firm believer that you are already a masterpiece. I just know where to stand.

I photograph windblown hair and bare feet. I photography the kid who refuses to cooperate. And the way their tiny hand reaches for yours without thinking. The ridiculous, achingly beautiful things happening right before your eyes.

Someday the ordinary things won't feel ordinary at all. They'll feel like a fuzzy memory you wish you could reach back into and hold.

From motherhood and maternity, to those hazy newborn days and the glorious chaos that follows, I create cinematic photographs that feel like you. Your heart and soul...rendered as forever heirlooms. A little wild. A little undone. Full of movement and meaning and honesty. Portland is home, but I'll happily follow you into the Columbia River Gorge, out to the Oregon coast, up into the mountains, or across the rivers to Vancouver...wherever your story takes us.

My photos are your love notes and stories.

This is for the wild at heart, the wildly in love, the rule breakers, the spirited, and the realists. Good behavior is never required. 

 

 

Two people holding dried flowers

THE Process

Mother snuggling newborn son in the river
01first...find me

Let's Make Some Magic. Many of my clients first find me while waiting for baby, and somehow I get lucky enough to photograph their stories for years to come.

My work is nostalgic, cinematic, a little wild, and meant to make you feel something. To evoke emotion. To stir your soul. I'm not interested in making your family look perfect. I want to make photographs that feel unmistakably like you. If you look through my work and feel that little pull in your chest, we are probably going to make something beautiful together.

Couple looking at each other in a flower field
02show up

Once we're committed to each other, I'll send you a detailed client guide. We'll choose the perfect wild space in or near Portland, the Columbia River Gorge, the mountains, or the Oregon coast to meet, and I'll help you style your session from beginning to end. All I ask is on the day of our session you show up ready to play, explore, and to be you. Come only with the expectation of being together in your perfectly imperfect way. I'll do the rest.

Mom and two kids embracing in a backyard garden
03gallery delivery

Within three weeks you'll receive a fully downloadable gallery of all of the best hand-edited images from our session. From your gallery you have multitudes of print options to get your images from the screen to your walls. You'll also receive a curated box of favorite prints from our session at the end of the year.

Client Words

testimonials

Our photos are so beautiful. They make me cry every time I see them.

The COX FAMILY

 

 

These photos mean so much to me. The more I look at them, the more symbolic of our lives they become. Deb really saw us.

The whitlock family

 

 

I was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was pregnant with him, and could never get maternity photos. I didn't want to miss out this time. Deb captured the sweetest images of us, and I will treasure them forever.

The Davis Family

 

 

I can't even find words to express how grateful I am for these beautifully captured photos and experiences.

The Kubrakov Family

Family of four walking through a field at sunset
Two sons hugging a mother.
Mom and Dad with new baby

recent work

 

from the journal

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We were all wild once.

 

 

 

Deb Morlan is a family and motherhood photographer serving the Portland, Oregon and beyond.

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