I went to Barrie in the Fall










Every year, my own Christmas card photoshoot has to be something fun and unique and memorable. Last year I was five months pregnant on the shorts of the Mediterranean, the year before I made a fake sunset, and one year we were in Costa Rica on our Christmas card. It’s become a personal challenge and…
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” Mark Twain might be best known for Huckleberry Finn, but somewhere along the way he became a witty philosophical type. I embrace his concept that success begins with acknowledging ignorance, claiming it, owning it, and finding a solution — with confidence. Spending a summer hospitalized afforded many long…
The dawn wasn’t as dramatic as I’d hoped for (I love dawn. Always have. Always will.), but the view was nonetheless spectacular. We left our corner of normalcy at o’dark thirty (I think it was 530am, if we’re going to be specific) to catch the 7am ferry across the ocean. Yes, I did say ferry…
Driving around town and seeing an abundant festival of pink cherry blossoms sprouting on (almost) every corner, I decided I needed to photograph the delightful florals. Necessity is, as they say, the mother of invention. On a whim, I turned my kitchen (and whole house, really) upside down. Invention, indeed. I turned my kitchen into…
If a photo is worth a thousand words and if sharing is caring, then sharing photos is the ultimate gift. I can’t tell you the number of times I have listened to someone tell me “I’ll send you these photos!” and they never do or (conversely)”My iPhone was full of [unshared] photos and now they’re…
Our two week roadtrip honeymoon was one of the most fabulous adventures imaginable (and the most pragmatic, since we had to get my car from North Carolina to British Columbia anyway!) so when we decided to take another roadtrip (in fewer days and with more kilometers!), it seemed risky to try to recreate the fun…