I’ve been seeing photographers posting their very favorites from 2011, and I love that idea because I love being able to see what an artist selects as the images that truly make THEIR hearts sing. So to close out my first calendar year of having a blog, I wanted to give it a try as […]
Since Emily was very small, she has been begging me to make her Halloween costumes. And of course this year was no different! This year she wanted to be a devil, but a girly one. So we bought a pattern and some fabric… And I sewed (notice the champagne? I find that very helpful as […]
Emily and I spent last Saturday doing the first annual (we hope!) ClickinMoms ClickinWalk! Women all over the world were meeting and talking a photo walk together and getting to know each other. We had a wonderful time and are already looking forward to next year! This was the view from where we parked. Emily and […]
Here’s the shoot Emily and I did with Bree from ClickinMoms! We traded raw files, so I played around with these, mostly using the new CM Film Art presets for Lightroom. Normally I am not a big preset user as I tend to prefer doing my more artistic editing in Photoshop, but man, I do LOVE […]
I’m taking a photography workshop, and my last assignment was to make a storyboard of a particular stanza from a Dr. Seuss book. We shopped and we shopped for all the right stuff, and then came home and gave it a whirl. We might have gone a tad more on the literal side than was […]
At the last minute we ALMOST got to spend Mother’s Day with my mom (Grammie, to Emily!) and sister, but our plans changed in the end when my poor sister ended up sick for her Mother’s Day… So we went back to our original plan of spending the day at Tom’s and my alma mater (and […]
We don’t go the traditional birthday party route all that often, but at Christmas my friend Laura and I found these adorable pink and green candy ornaments, and a perfect-for-Emily party was born! Happy green and warm pink have been Emily’s and my favorite colors for what seems like forever, so this was the ideal […]
…We went VERY QUICKLY from this: …to this: …and it was the happiest day of my life! For all too short a time we had this: Now we have this: And sometimes this: And always this: I love you, my darling Emily! You are an amazing girl, and you make my heart sing every day… I […]