Frederique challenged everyone to post their top 10 favorite images from 2006. I am posting a little late but still wanted to play! I don’t have a full year to choose from as I haven’t had my dslr that long, but it was still so hard to choose, I have had so many amazing clients this year! My favorite of Taryn, one of the very first images I took with my new camera. A gift of momentary cooperation from Ty. Finally, after suffering with the learning curve on my new 85 mm, I started to “get it” with this photo. It took me 3 sessions and around 400 exposures to get this, total and complete lack of cooperation. This photo […]

…to last year. At this time on Christmas Eve, we were “moving” from the trailer in our front yard into the house. I still can’t believe we did that, but we did. The house was NO WHERE near ready, concrete floors, no furniture, no kitchen, a functioning toilet on one side of the house and a functioning shower on the other, and that was it. Jason and I took shifts painting into the wee hours of the night the week before Christmas, and got it done just in time. We had the two chairs my Mom’s neighbor had given us, a bed for Ty, a bed for us and we had Taryn’s pack-n-play in the closet in her room. It […]

Hi all, I have a small favor to ask. One of my online photographer friends, Erin, has an amazingly cute daughter. Seriously, it’s a fact. Even the Gap thinks so! Little Sarah is a finalist in the Gap Casting Call! It’s so exciting, please vote….just go here and look for little Sarah….here she is in all her cuteness…. Photo copyright of Photography by Erin (used with permission of course). You should really check out Erin’s blog, her photography is to die for! Her use of light, her composition and she is the queen of using negative space….can you tell that her work inspires me? Now stop reading my blog and GO VOTE! Thanks guys!!