Annual Family Self Portraits






It had been a short ride, an easy one. We had only enough time to push the bike onto the ferry with all seven of the load’s cars, pay our fare, and breathe the salt filled waves before we were docking on the other side of the crossing. It was a ferry ride to an…
Today, life in China is exhausting. Actually, every day in China is exhausting. Somedays I am just more capable of battling through it. A Finnish gal (who has lived in my apartment building for a year now) explained it to me this way: “When you go out of your apartment, you have to prepare to…
I went camping. Nay, I went camping for the first time. I mean, I slept in a tent in Uganda (but that was out of desperation: the house we were supposed to sleep in was locked from the inside by a very deep sleeper on the night we arrived) and I slept in a tent at Cannon Beach (but during…
Hi. That’s me. I’m a bride. Yes. A bride. I’m writing this a couple weeks before you’ll actually see this (it’s going to be auto published on my wedding day), but yes: that’s me. And, yes, I took my own bridal portraits. Well, for full disclosure, I held the camera, set up the shot, adjusted…
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…
When I googled “camera”, I came up with 952,000,000 results in 0.17 seconds. To narrow it down a little bit, I asked Google Shopping for a camera and came up with 24,800,000 results in 0.61 seconds. By the way, thats a lotta cameras. If that’s not intimidating for the camera buyer, I don’t know what…