Family portraits and pictures in and around Wenatchee, Washington in a candid, relaxed on location setting.

fresh, modern, meaningful

Photography for senior, family, commercial, engagement, newborn, children, kids, travel and landscape portraits and photos in and around Wenatchee, Washington by Tonya Doughty Photography + Design.

I choose not to work in a studio because I live to shoot real people in real life. You and yours amid the backdrop of the world. I want you to have an emotional reaction when you see your photos, to see what I saw: the relationships, interactions, love and bonds that are stronger than imaginable. Strong enough to shine and bring the intangible clearly into focus.

What you may want to know is I am laid back and easy to get along with. I am creative and great at solving problems, two essential things for turning your captured moments into art. My friends think I am reliable, trustworthy, creative and smart. I see most everything through a lens and even in the rare instance that there is no camera with me, I am thinking about the light, the shadow, and mostly, the possibilities.

If I could sum up my life in one page I would. That not being possible, suffice it to say I have been in love with photography for more than 20 years. I developed my first roll of black and white film in the darkroom made out of my bathroom. And before that I was the geeky little kid with the 110 camera always around my neck. I learned both photography and design the old school way, no computers, which meant having to know your craft. I built on that solid skill and combined it with my love affair of fresh, artistic style and have never looked back. In 1990 I earned a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design and Photography and have since worked fulltime at both, which is like not working at all, because I love them too much to consider it "work". I don't think you're ever too good, or too old, to learn something new and I take pride in always working to keep my photography modern and meaningful.