I am a hard core bibliophile. My perfect day would be spent in the nook of an old and extensive library reveling in the old book smell and the promise of new knowledge. It isn’t just the reading of books that I love, but sitting in their presence. There is a palpable energy when you […]

Longing for someone looks different once you’ve been married for a while. You have to create the distance that longing requires because it doesn’t come organically anymore.

I am taking a break from social media. It’s been a long time coming. I started to feel the first pangs of burnout around this time last year, and although I knew that I needed to tune out from the world and put my efforts and energy into myself I didn’t. Because I was scared. […]

Or maybe we’ve been so over-fed families on golden lit hills that we’ve never considered that our family photos could be done any other way.

I also started deconstructing my Christian belief system and as those towers crumbled I found myself, like Medea, asking “How do you soothe utter desolation? How do you…stand among the ruins of your home?”

Is it unethical to photograph a naked child? At what age does child nudity become inappropriate? Where is the line between child pornography and documenting childhood in the natural state of nakedness? These are questions that have been on my mind since I started my photography journey. As someone who loves to use skin in […]

Oh snap, a word that makes “appropriate” people squeamish. But since I’m all but positive no “appropriate” people read this blog, let’s get to it. Pussy. Say it out loud. Pussy. Pussy, pussy pussy pussy pussy. “I hate that word” someone recently told me. It almost feels like you shouldn’t say it. Or maybe you […]

How I use Lightroom overlays

When my sister-in-law reached out to me about doing a session with her friend Kori in her Jingle Dress, I was over the moon excited. I instantly started conjuring images of slow shutter speeds and blurred color, but the heart of this session didn’t truly dawn on me until I met Kori. In an email […]