Have A Spectacular Christmas
Even though there’s not even a remote chance I’ll see snow this Christmas, while I’m in a tropical location shooting a wedding in a foreign language, I hope your Christmas is cold and snowy and full of family.
Even though there’s not even a remote chance I’ll see snow this Christmas, while I’m in a tropical location shooting a wedding in a foreign language, I hope your Christmas is cold and snowy and full of family.
Since our international love story started in Africa before we roadtripped from our wedding in North Carolina to our new home in British Columbia, travel has long been part of our lives. At the very least, we’re budgeting each year to be able to visit my family . . . and as time and savings…
Although this has been the summer of convalescence (see my open thank you letter to the doctors, nurses, family, and friends during my appendicitis and hospitalizations), it will be evermore defined in my memory as the summer I was blessed abundantly. Words will never do justice to the beautiful care and love I have received…
I stood in the middle of a barn, meeting a horse worth more than any car I will *ever* own and learning about what it takes to own a horse farm (while wiping sweat from my forehead and swatting flies away), and realized how blessed I am. Yes, blessed. (Despite the sweat and flies). I…
Not too many years ago, my photo selection process started with carefully choosing when to press the shutter release button; film wasn’t cheap, processing was an additional cost, and every photo mattered. Every photo matter as I came to the end of the film, packaged the roll, checked and double checked that my…
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…
Stories. Life is filled with stories. The bedtime stories from childhood. The textbooks from high school filled with stories of history and worldchangers. The novels turned to chick flicks. The stories our grandparents tell us. The stories our grandparents don’t tell us. The current events newspapers stories. The tall tales, the fishing stories. The…