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Recently, I was talking to some friends about photography and I mentioned that the most time consuming part of photography for me isn’t shooting photos. I typically spend significantly more time on the editing process. I really love editing photos in Photoshop. I try to keep my photos as true to reality as possible, but…
I love a new year. I think for most people, the new year gives us a blank slate. I guess it’s the idea of hitting the reset button. No matter how great or how challenging life was the previous year, a new year gives me the feeling I get a second chance. A fresh start….
As we say good-bye to 2013, I have been going through all of my photos from the year and remembering the highlights. 2013 was definitely a year of personal growth for me and our entire family! I’m kind of amazed, actually, to think about what we’ve accomplished, where we’ve been and how we’ve grown. Here…
I love getting the family together in the fall and going somewhere beautiful to take our family photos. The kids? Well, not so much. One of the reason our family photo shoots are typically not super enjoyable is that I insist on trying to take our photos with the timer and the tripod. I’m sure…
Some people gotta learn the hard way, and I guess I’m the kinda girl who has to find out for myself… In one sense, that is pretty much the theme song of my life. OK… not in the way the song writer meant it. But when it comes to learning pretty much anything, I’m the…
I knew the first day of school was going to be very rushed, so I took the kids to St. James Farm for a photo shoot in their uniforms. Jayda was being a little stinker, as you can tell in the photos! The time is getting close now… And have I mentioned lately how much…
At the end of the spring, I was challenged to make two lists. One list should include the things in life that drain me. On the other list, I should think of the things that fill me up. This has been an interesting challenge for me. When life gets full of all of the draining…
When I saw Uncle Kevin’s big field of corn, it was calling me to take a 4th of July family photo. We took these right before the sun set on July 3. I attempted to copy a photo idea I had seen on Facebook. The one I copied was at a wedding. The bride and…
Of all the big adventures we take around this area, it’s kind of funny that we rarely go into the city. I love the idea of showing the kids all of the sights and sounds of the city. But then the reality of what it would look like to drag four children downtown for a…
I’ve been having a big philosophical discussion with myself lately about portraits. I know this is totally normal, and lots of other people have been talking to themselves about photography lately, as well. It’s been getting a little boring to talk to myself in my head, so I wanted to bring my internal conflict to…
