Annual Family Self Portraits






I wake to the village roosters echoing their morning cry up and down the street. They never stop crowing, really. Or if they do, its for only an hour at 2am. But the cock-a-doodle-doos are more prolific in the wee hours of the morning. At 5am the streets are already populated. A boat chugs…
In honor of black Friday (cough, cough – NOT!) I went shopping. Okay, so in my defense I totally stumbled upon the opportunity and totally didn’t mean to end up shopping. It just kind of happened. I had spent all morning (and half the afternoon) wallowing in my apartment, watching the intersection below for amusement…
Let’s face it: when you’re standing on a dock at the Pacific ocean overlooking THAT view, *anything* is going to be more fun, more memorable, more enjoyable, more special, more fantastic. But add into the mix a ride in this boat after a Ferry Ride across the bay and then a weekend of baiting and…
Now that summer is over (and with it the completion of another jet-setting wedding season that comes with my new title as “destination wedding photographer”), it’s time to reflect on what the summer has held and what that can mean for the autumn as it begins. In between all the other excitement and unprecedented adventures,…
I was sitting at a coffee shop as I often do these days; the people-watching, coffee-drinking, no-house-work-doing environment helps me stay focused. The sixty-some-year-old couple was sitting at a table opposite mine, just barely in earshot and directly in my line of sight. He held up his flip phone and pointed it across the…
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven,” quote George Bernard Shaw. And how true is that? We used to enjoy joking that “if Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy,” but the joke isn’t as funny as Mr. Shaw is true: a happy family is that blessed glimmer of heaven’s glory. And it’s marvelous. We’ve…