The Simple Portrait: You know back in the day when the photographer would spend 15 minutes setting you up to get that perfect, stale and boring headshot? Nowadays our photos are much more alive filled with action and movement, color and emotion. But, what about the boring portrait? Is there something valuable in the stale [...]
Archive for July 2009
i need to write.
When my brain is in need of processing I write. It’s just my way of getting it all out. It’s as if looking back over the black on white helps my brain to make sense of it all. These days I have been unable to do it. My journal pages have gone unfilled, my blog [...]
life at home
I love doing sessions in family’s homes. It’s there that they are most comfortable and there where most of their family memories are made. So, when Amy emailed and suggested doing it at their home I was thrilled! It was so fun to see little A … she was only 10 months old when I [...]
Leaving California …
…and not happy about it. I just love it here! I always have so much fun. Every time I’m here I dream of moving here. It’s a dreamland out here! Not to mention I have the *best* clients here. Truly. I feel so blessed to be connected and hired by so many unbelievable families. For [...]
Photography Friday
Create yourself an in-home studio! The sun shining through a window is some of the best light to obtain when taking photographs. The light shining this way will almost always be soft and similar to light strived for in studios. To obtain it, move your subjects over to a large window where the sun is [...]
this is why
I want one of my own. It’s odd to long for something that is unknown. There’s this huge part of me that is earning with every ounce of my being to experience pregnancy and motherhood and then there’s this other smaller, but very much real part of me that hesitates. What will that look like? [...]
cheeeeese!
No Photography Friday because I’m too busy keeping this little guy happy and alive. He’s soundly sleeping the afternoon away so I’m using this time to quickly answer emails, return phone calls, take a shower and then sleep at least a teeny bit of the afternoon away as well. : ) Happy weekend everyone! {if [...]
being present
It’s a concept that is a daily struggle for me. I feel like everything I do I’m doing it while simultaneously thinking of the next thing to be done. Answering emails = what photos are still needing to be edited, talking on the phone = what house chores are being neglected, working out = what [...]
girlfriends*
There are all sorts of things that I will never forget about my wedding day, but one thing that especially sticks out is something our pastor said to us during the ceremony: “Learn the new importance of friendships. They will take on a new shape and meaning, but will be more important to you than [...]
Photography Friday
Give your subjects something to do! Something I love to do is to give my subjects something to do. For instance, with the above photo I told the girls that on the count of three I want you to hug Alison (the one in the middle) as hard as you can. One … two … [...]