Devil's Punchbowl & Downtown Portland Senior Pictures | Lilliana | Whitney Beth Photography
 

Last week we spontaneously packed the car, drove through the night and went to Oregon. (I'll share more of our trip later.) While there I was able to check off one of the locations from my photography bucket list! I shot inside the devil's punchbowl! For those unaware with that place, it's on the Oregon coast and is essentially a bowl of cliffs that fills up with ocean water during high tide. The only way inside it is low tide along the bottom. My cousin was up for an adventure and at the end of our family beach day, she threw on a dress, slapped on some makeup and trudged in knee deep water up a sandbar to get inside. It was intense. This was only my second time actually inside the bowl - the first with blue skies and a light breeze. This time felt like we were inside a blender with sand whirling around our faces and slapping our legs. I was shooting blind for most of it! I still can't believe the shots we were able to get! If you zoom in close, you can see the sand whirling across the frame. We didn't stay super long, it was cold and we still had to pack up our spot with the rest of the family we had left on the safe side of the beach. 

To give Lilly a chance to relax and have some pain free (literally) pictures we also hit up the Portland Rose Gardens. So beautiful! It was such a lovely, relaxing evening running from rose bush to rose bush. It has extra special meaning to Lilly, since her middle name is Rose. I kept saying, "ok, we're done!" and then we'd start walking back to the car only to have me say, "wait! one more right here!" I could've stayed there all day. We ended the night heading over to the west side of the river to get a shot of LIl on the dock with Portland in the background. It was the perfect way to spend the last night of our trip!