Joanna and her Harp
My nieces and nephews (and their parents) have a unique advantage: ample camera practice before family portrait season even rolls around. Me? I have eleven (local) built-in models who are (slowly!) learning to ask for a photo (and then begging to see all the images). When nephew Isaiah had a birthday bonfire in the rain, what else was…
Devin and Callie’s family photos are proof that it is possible to have (successful and frameable) family photos in twenty minutes and have fun in the process. Necessity is the mother of invention, you see. Between my unfortunately tight schedule in Jerusalem, Devin’s work responsibilities, and two adorably cooperative but increasingly hungry and tired children, the clock started ticking…
Maternity photos by the light of a full moon isn’t an simple undertaking. The photos don’t show the threat of desert wildlife behind every cactus. The photos don’t showcase the wounds from wrestling a bush of thorns in the dark. The viewer doesn’t see stains from rolling around on the desert ground or hear the…
I’m sitting on an cross-country flight as I write this (my trip will be long over by the time you read this, though!) and relishing in the energy and adventures I find in travel. The people watching in an airport is delightful (today’s highlight: the overall-and-pigtailed three-year-old who never met a stranger), the inspiration of…
Every day is a good day when there’s sunshine (especially in the rainy Pacific Northwest) but it’s an even BETTER day when that sunshine comes out just in time to witness Vancouver’s partial solar eclipse (my very first solar eclipse!). The day had been cloudy and rainy but as I drove to Campbell Valley Park,…