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Take Your Wife to Work Day: China Edition

We dubbed it take your wife to work day. Nothing official, nothing authorized, just me joining the van full of commuting expats heading to the banks of the Yangtse river where The Machine was being constructed. And what a machine it is!

I won’t try to do it justice, and even the photos don’t properly portray the enormity of this beast.

But, in case you’re wondering why we trekked across the ocean to spend time in China, this is it: a ship-loading, coal conveyer belt designed in Europe, wired in Canada, built in China, and to be used in South America.

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Bridal Falls. Chilliwack, BC

When the day is unseasonably sunny and fully of happy, fluffy, cotton ball clouds instead the normal low, gray, heavy clouds, there’s not much to do but GO OUTSIDE! When the day is so sun-filled, it requires sunglasses? You put ’em on with glee and GO OUTSIDE! When a magical little corner of the moss-covered,…

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2018 Engagement Highlights

Engagement photos are some of the most treasured sessions to shoot — free of the inevitable wedding day time restrictions, engagement photos are my time to get to know my clients, let them get to know me, and see how their relationship looks in real time, and figure out which jokes make them laugh. Always…

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How to Look Amazing in Photos

Each time I stand in front of the camera, I realize afresh how hard it is to be photographed! I knoowww that John and I make it look effortless since we’re pro models (hahaha. just kidding. so not profesh), but it’s ridiculously hard work to be posed but not frozen, casual but not sloppy, lovey…

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Jennifer At Your Wedding: Behind the Scenes 2018

What’s it like having Jennifer at your wedding celebration? Good question. I mean, unless you’re used to having the media shadow your every move (are you a celebrity reading this? I’d love to know!), you’ve never had your very own personal paparazzi follow you around playing one part fly-on-the-wall documentary photographer and one part bossypants…

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My Thankful Vacation

I am thankful for airplanes. Airplanes that criss-cross the continent and allow all the appendages of my family to convene in on semi-central location. We flew from Atlanta, from North Carolina, and from British Columbia to descend upon Arizona — that’s only about twenty-six hours of flying among the five travelers (round trip) instead of…

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Enjoying Grace

If you’ve been following me on Instagram, you know that I spent Christmas week with my entire family – for the fourth time in thirteen months, the British Columbians and the Arizonans and the Tennesseeans and the North Carolinians have congregated in one location. We spent last Thanksgiving at the Grand Canyon, gathered in May…