From the very minute her first email arrived, it was obvious that Tesla was going to be a pretty great gal with whom to work. Her presentation of herself through mere words in an email were impressive; her maturity and humor bubbled out of her message and off the screen of my iPhone…it was […]

It such a wonderful thing, the cyclical nature of life. No, not the circle of life—even though that’s wonderful, too (both the cycle and the song about it). I mean the way that the people and things spiral around and around our lives, coming in (and sometimes heading out) at the quirkiest of times.   […]

  Sometimes, looking through the lens grants us a great glimpse of the future. We can see a growing love on a wedding day or the first of years of grins and giggles from a brand new baby or even the hope and light of the next generation of a senior session. It is a […]

Sometimes in the middle of sessions, I find myself just grinning because of the client I have before me. Be it their smile or their personality, their funny comments, their natural sense of humor…even though it is my job to make them beam in front of the camera, it is often me that is just […]

“I know that this is all about senior photos,” he said, “but I was wondering, could we do a couple, just her and me?”   Her being his super-sweet, super-sociable girlfriend, who trucked along with us through the woods with a smile that never wavered. Not for one second.   How do I say no […]

I love senior photo season for lots of reasons, but none more so than being able to provide these young adults an opportunity to see themselves for who they really are, not what they believe themselves to be. Not many high school students see their faces beyond their back-to-school mugshots. It is such a great joy for me […]