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It has been about 6 years since we have lived in a climate that experiences true fall weather, and we’re making the most of it! Pin It
Pin ItAs we dive into the holiday season, opportunities for photos of kids engaged in easily recognizable activities abound. But how to add variety and interest while photographing the holidays instead of creating images that can easily look the same year after year? Here are a few quick tips: Cut Off the Heads Frame your
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Haircuts reveal a new dimension of a child. Someone slightly older, different, a tiny bit foreign. I always hold bittersweet emotions about cutting my kids’ hair when they’re preschoolers or younger. Thankfully, their smiles don’t change, even if their hair does. Pin It
Pin ItOur track record of ‘grandparents and me’ portrait sessions is rather spotted. Timing is everything, and stress levels must be low in order to ensure cooperation from a few members of this group. The stars aligned, the light was right and the Boston Terrier photobombed with aplomb. Pin It
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In between classes I had a few moments to photograph Seattle. Mainly from the hotel, but it worked out. Several of these photos were shot in the Presidential Suite on the 40th floor. What a view! To explain the photos at the end- my husband sent me a treat because he was concerned I wasn’t
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When I travel I either photograph my family, relatively unposed, as we explore a destination or take pictures of scenes that I come across. For the sessions on travel photography that I taught at Clickaway, I was struggling with how to use a model in a way that was relatively authentic to my normal approach
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I’ve just returned from a fantastic weekend in Seattle, teaching and learning at Clickaway 2016. One of the sessions I taught was about creating dramatic indoor natural light portraits. Our model was Caroline Jensen‘s beautiful and cooperative daughter… through a combined 3 hours of holding poses she never complained nor lost concentration; a professional to
Pin ItDuring our Spring Break trip to Nashville and Kentucky, we stopped at the Jim Beam Distillery for a tour. Kind of a dubious activity with children, but they enjoyed it much more than I thought they would! We got to see the mash process in craft and industrial format, sampled Knob Creek straight out of the
Pin ItI made myself shoot through a whole roll of Portra 400 in the Nikon F100 during spring break, and I also MADE myself overexpose more than I wanted to. It worked out well! Pin It
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To see more self portraits from this project, search the hashtag #portraitsofme on Instagram. S Pin It
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Spring green combines beautifully with Portra 400, unless it is too far overexposed, and then everything starts to turn yellow… the exact opposite of what I’m trying to achieve by shooting plants on film! These images were all shot on Portra 400 with a Nikon F100, which has been a great camera. I’ve enjoyed combining
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I’ve seen a lot of the West coast, quite a bit of Texas, and having lived in Alabama for close to a year now, a good amount of the South. I had not, however, visited many of the interior states. In order to remedy that, I arranged our Spring Break trip to Nashville and Lexington/Louisville and
Pin It“As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness — just the pure air to breathe and the
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When I was in high school, my specialty in the kitchen was chocolate chip bar cookies. A few times per month, I’d come home to the empty house, after school, and whip up a batch of chocolatey goodness. I’ve cut back on the frequency of cookie prep, but I’ve found that I have at least
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Film scan day continues to be one of my favorites! Shot on Mamiya RB67 ProSD | Portra 400 rated at 320 and metered for 0 in the shadows | Develop and Scan by The Find Lab Pin It
Pin ItWhen we travel, sometimes the destinations are for all of us, and sometimes they are for one person, or interest group ;), in particular. Honestly, I wasn’t overly excited at the idea of visiting a museum filled with motorcycles, but everyone else was and as long as were were traveling out of our current hometown,
Pin ItTake a look at your image archive. Go ahead. Click over and count up how many images you are in, in the past month’s folder. If you’re like most photographers, or more broadly- most women, I’d venture, the number of images that feature you is quite small. But, you are important, too! Your children will want
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I always seem to forget how tedious it feels to come up with a new subject, or a new way to look at the same subject, when I am committed to shooting daily. I could take a portrait of a child, each day, and call it good, but the point of daily shooting is to
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The milky, creamy white tones and pretty, muted greens of this flower arrangement had me wishing it might live forever. Flowers and directional light work wonderfully together. The textures and shapes of the flowers are highlighted by the shadows left behind in the obstruction of light, while the light and shadow play seems to animate the
Pin ItOne of the major reasons that I decided to try shooting film was for the amazing way it renders green tones. Digital green is often heavy on the yellows. I can edit digital to look similar to film, in the way that green is displayed, but it isn’t quite the same- plus! Time spent editing.
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These boys. It’s really interesting to me how different, and yet alike, brothers in the same family can be. They share some of the same mannerisms (hands in their mouth when they’re occupied by Backyardigans, for example) but they have very dissimilar attitudes towards life and completely unique personalities. The little one adores the bigger
Pin ItDo you have a fond donut related memory from your childhood? Mine is Donut World, in Gresham, Oregon. For several years, my family would visit with another family, every Sunday after church. We got to choose one donut, each, and I can still remember the contour of the brightly colored laminate benches, the often experienced
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