Four weeks ago a far-away virus had only cheated us of our spring break plan to return to Thailand. Suddenly it was at our back door and the whole world reeled. As we rushed to cancel a back-up trip, we booked a remote cabin with barely a glance at the website. White Pine Camp in […]

As this quarantine draws on I find myself daydreaming about sessions like this one. This brand-new family welcomed me into their beautiful home just before Christmas and opened their hearts to my lens. They were so incredibly fun to work with. Honestly, newborn sessions seem effortless. It’s a love fest that I’m just lucky enough […]

“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all human ordinary life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heartbeat, and we should die of that roar that lies on the other side of silence” – George Eliot In part two we talked about the slumber of being human — […]

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard” – Anne Sexton (poet) Every time I upgrade my camera I read nearly every page of the manual. By the time I’m done, there isn’t a feature I don’t know something about.  Some of us know our camera manual better then our personal manual. […]

I hope this installment of our journey doesn’t come off harsh. Please know these are each ways I’ve misstepped in my own journey. Before we dig into how to pull back the veil that clouds our vision as photographers, I want to describe some unhealthy motives can block us. Do you sometimes photograph for these […]

”The days of walking lifeless, the years calloused and simply going through the hollow motions, the self-protecting by self-distracting, the senses never waking because the body has lost the capacity to fully feel – – this is the life in-between that makes us the wild walking dead.”  Ann Voskamp – One Thousand Gifts The first […]