I photograph my family. Our daily life, our travels and our occasional portrait sessions. Most of the time, I love the freedom of that. I can shoot what I want, when I want, without feeling obligation to capture other people’s visions or stick to external timelines for production. Sometimes, though, I find myself feeling antsy. […]
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I needed to shoot some example images for a tutorial I wrote for Clickinmoms, and this guy was my willing model. He even happily went coat-less in mid-40 degree weather. As we enter into the tween stage of life, we’ve had a lot of fun as his humor and insights have really grown. Pin It
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Philadelphia’s historic district is quite compact and perfect for walking around with kids. Within several blocks we were able to visit Independence Hall, The Liberty Bell, The Betsy Ross House, Benjamin Franklin’s grave, Elfreth’s Alley and had a fantastic lunch at High Street Market. The walk to City Hall and Reading Terminal was a bit
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I wasn’t aware just how storied and well traveled the Liberty Bell is. The exhibit that accompanies it is very educational and the building designers did photographers a favor with the wall of windows and white marble on either side (…if you can elbow your way past all of the tourists and wait for an
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We’ve decided to keep #portraitsofme going over on Instagram! Each Monday, my friend Courtney of Clickitupanotch and I will post a self portrait, and we invite you to join us. New this year, we are providing a weekly prompt to help you think of ways to document different facets of your life throughout the year.
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I still am not over the feeling of awe that arises when we “stand where Washington stood.” Or Hamilton. Or Lincoln. Or…. And then I fall down the rabbit hole of contemplating what made the individuals that we remember history makers. What factors combined perfectly to propel them to making the choices they did, that
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Since he was able to shell them, actually- before… I spent a good amount of time cracking pistachios a few years ago, he has been in love with these little nuts. As far as snack foods go, they’re a winner in my book, so we even bought him a special pistachio bowl. It has a
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10 minutes on a chilly, sunny, November morning at a rental cottage outside Charlottesville. The only sounds were the birds in the trees (and the children…)
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I learned so much in 2016 and am looking forward to where 2017 will take me with film photography! (#1 tip- expose for the shadows ;) ) Pin It
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The best of 2016 in 50 images. Culling is no joke! If you haven’t, go through your collection of images from the past year and pick out your top 50 images (or less, if you are feeling particularly ambitious.) Celebrate your successes! Whether you met your ultimate goal or not, I can guarantee that if
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I sat in on Ashley Crawford’s family photography on film class at Clickaway. It was fun to watch someone more experienced work with film and, yet again, hear the reminder to give that film plenty of light ;) A day or two later, my friend Courtney Slazinik (Clickitupanotch.com) and I went out to see the
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The day after Thanksgiving, we decided to head into the city for a day of museums, instead of shopping. Judging by the business of the Natural History Museum, many other people had the same idea. After touring most of the museum, we all agreed that the gem and mineral section (not pictured) was our absolute
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Over Labor Day weekend we went camping as a family (dogs and all!) near Harpers Ferry. I had been avoiding shooting with film during summer, as the move from Alabama to Virginia made the organization necessary to shoot and store film feel a bit overwhelming. Honestly, I had also been quite underwhelmed with my film
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The summer months were a little bit shaky for the self-portrait project that my friend Courtney, of Clickitupanotch.com, and I are working on over on Instagram, but fall and the return to school routine helped me carve out time for making self portraits again, too. Pin It
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From the time that we learned we’d be moving to the DC area I was looking forward to fall. For the past 6 years we have lived in very mild climates, where the leaves don’t really change colors… they gradually fade to brown and fall off the trees. It’s almost as though they drop down
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Sometimes I wish I could live on an Apple Farm. But, usually, those are days when it is brilliantly sunny, warm and I’ve been wooed by the magic of pie, or cider donuts, or hard cider. Then, I remember that there are many cold, windy, worrisome and wearying days associated with running a large farm.
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I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, & the independance of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gay capital. … for tho’ there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease & less misery. –Paris Sep. 6. 1785, letter to Baron von Geismar The East coast is rich
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While trip planning I usually Google for “must-dos” in whatever city we are head to, then pick a few things from the top of the list and a few from the middle to get a good feeling for what is most popular and what might be largely undiscovered gems. Hollywood Cemetery was pretty high up
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Usually, when trip planning I have an internal debate with myself “Do I have enough ‘kids’ activities? Or does it not matter and they can just learn how to be little humans in an adult world?” While I’d love to say that they always flawlessly blend into adult scenes, that isn’t the case… so travel
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What can sometimes be the most chaotic morning of a family’s year also contains some of the most memorable moments. Emotions running high, the potential for magic in the eyes of the children is palpable and there are color, textures and lights galore. Need a few strategies and tips to photograph Christmas morning (or any other holiday
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During Day 1 of freelensing I wasn’t able to achieve focus in the middle of the frame. After spending hours googling and reading, I came to the conclusion that the rear element of the lens simply wasn’t able to get close enough to the camera sensor in order to create focus in the middle of
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While at Clickaway in Seattle last month, Sarah Wilkerson mentioned a fun product that the Click & Co store had brought along to sell- Lensbenders. I’d never heard of them and never found the time to make my way to the store booth during the conference, but a few weeks ago I was looking for
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I recently acquired a prism from the Click&Co store. For a trial run, I took it out into the backyard in the late afternoon. I love the haze and flare that other photographers achieve with similar tools, but I found myself struggling with the reflection that the prism introduced into my images. It was necessary
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The chance to pull the curtain back and peek into others’ behind the scenes is always fun. I’m also always amazed by how unique the results are for an identical camera +lens combo, when shot by different photographers. Here is a (somewhat incomplete… I have a few more lenses, but they either live on my film
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