As 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
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Our 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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I 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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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
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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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When 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,
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Take 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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One 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
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Do 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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The wait for scans to come back from the lab is torturous. I sent my second roll of medium format film to the Find Lab in Utah. Due to the Christmas holiday I ended up having to wait for almost 2 and 1/2 weeks between shipping day and scan day. I’m accustomed to uploading and
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When you move frequently, low priced international moving companies become your friends and the definition of home becomes something fluid and amorphous. Not every location that you live in becomes a home, but many do and the traditional definition of a single, solitary place of home is harder to hold on to. My husband and
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They’re beach babies. Give them sand and a stick and they’re happy for hours. Pin It
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“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable, and, unreasonable ways.” The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851 New Orleans has a long, long history. The French Quarter was kid friendly at the hours that we were there, but by the time we left around
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The day after Thanksgiving we packed up the family and headed down to Gulfport Mississippi for a quick weekend getaway. I found the most adorable cottage on Airbnb and, in a small way, it felt like we were back in Europe, traveling and staying in homes. With this Airbnb experience, though, there were no
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Playing together? Kind of? One loves Minecraft with all that he is, and the other is quite engrossed with an Angry Birds racing game. Electronics are a struggle in our house, as I know they are in many others. On this afternoon, at least, everyone was content, the devices were being used with consent
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This is an honest set of images. In late October I bought a Mamiya RB 67 ProSD off of ebay, from a deal in Korea, and waited patiently for it to arrive. 4 days later, which seemed incredibly fast for international shipping, I was on YouTube figuring out how to load 120 into a
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Both of his older brothers had to be in their bed in order to fall asleep. I thought that must just be the way our family rolls. But then this little one came along. Couches, floors…. anywhere is fair game for a nap. The only problem is that if he happens to fall asleep
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I’ve recently fallen in love with film photography. I tried to fall in love 4 years ago, with a Holga, but I wasn’t quite able to find a reason to keep shooting film. I had put 1 and a half rolls of film through the Holga, when I tucked it all away in a
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