New life always whispers so sweetly to my creative soul. I’m grateful to this tender mama (a creative herself over @curateandcompany!) who gave me and my camera a backstage pass to all this love. My newborn sessions are slow and deliberate and honestly pretty quiet. Here are a few methods I’ve used over the years […]

I’ve been accused more than once of overthinking. That comes in handy when you’re asked to think aloud for an hour. I was privileged to speak with a few folks on their podcasts recently! The first interview was with the ever-hilarious Sarah Kreig of The Shared Shutter. Our conversation was light and humorous, centering on […]

“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 […]