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In early April, Emily was selected to participate in a very powerful campaign against drunk driving through her school. It’s called Every 15 Minutes, and it’s put on for the juniors and seniors at her high school. We parents were informed well in advance (giving me ample time to stress about it!), but the involved […]

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My sister-in-law has been wanting to go with us to Disneyland for a while yet, and last year she called me and said she’d already looked up the dates of our kids’ school breaks, and since we were off at the same time in February she’d decided we were finally going to make it happen. […]

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It had been a while since we’d been to Oregon in the summer, and an especially long while since we had been to Bend at all, so we decided this was the summer to make the trek! (Square photos are iPhone.) It was a lot of driving, but every day the sky was so beautiful […]

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This month our assignment was to do a portrait in profile. I couldn’t think of a “logical” way to do that, where the image would make sense, so I decided to kind of go in a more “lifestyle” direction with it. And here’s what I got: images of my girl doing one of her favorite […]

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This month was really tough for me! Our theme was “Editorial.” All of us had all sorts of ideas on how to interpret this in terms of photography, and I am betting the amazing girls in my group all did way better than I did on this one! After brainstorming time and again with Emily […]

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For the last five weeks I have been taking a class called Style & Voice from the amazing Lynne Rigby at The Photographer Within. It’s been wonderful and intense: It’s all about narrowing down who you are as a photographer and what you want to portray with your work. I think my style is pretty […]

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I am so excited about the themes we all decided on with our blog circle for this year, because once again I will have to step a bit out of my box to create each month’s image, and that is a wonderful thing! My portraits are normally all about light and joy, but to me […]

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Today was an interesting day. Surreal. We woke up and got Emily off to school as usual. Met friends for coffee after drop-off, and Tom joined us for a while as he sometimes does on Fridays. Then I came home and hopped on the computer for a few minutes to check on a few things […]

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