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This post: It’s been a LONG time coming… We moved into our house right after we married (in 1996), and I have wanted to update the kitchen since before we bought the place! And then what was supposed to be a four or five week job beginning back in October ended up dragging on for […]

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Emily and I took a girly trip to Santa Barbara this week because it was her spring break. We had grand plans to go to the Botanical Gardens and go nuts with my Lensbabies, but our plans got derailed when she got sick, so we ended up being much more low-key—a little time shopping, but […]

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The second in my Tutorials series! (To see the rest of the series, click on the Tutorials link in the menu items above!) There are some general “rules” for landscape photography. First of all, you will probably be happiest with wider angled lenses, staying at roughly 35 mm or lower. When shooting, the most obvious […]

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It rained on and off this weekend, and in between the downpours the light was often beautiful as I looked out the window behind my computer monitor, so I couldn’t resist heading outside with my Lensbaby to take photos of our little baby crabapple tree. It’s a funny little tree because it really hasn’t grown […]

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Our last Disneyland trip on our annual passes was last month ( 🙁 ), so I brought my Lensbaby (this time the Sweet 35) to play once again (see here for the non-Lensbaby images from our trip!). I feel so inspired when I use the Lensbaby lineup—they encourage me to look at the world in […]

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I admit, I was the one who voted to try this again, and though I feel like I got closer this time, I still feel like this “out of focus stuff” is eluding me. But I got closer, which has fueled me—I am going to practice this in earnest! I just love the softness of […]

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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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