Messy hair and dirty feet. The flushed faces of children who have been running and wrestling for the past hour. Grit on the floor from the dirt they tracked in after playing in the rain-soaked garden. A mixture of leaves and dandelion heads, sand, and water is added to an old battered bowl she uses […]

The art of seduction isn’t found in revelation. It is found in mystery.

I’m going to take pictures of the stain on your floor, of toes and ponytails, small hands on your face, and the blurred frenzy of movement. The shadows in the hallway and the sunshine on the carpet; they’re poetry of a present turned tomorrow’s nostalgia. And I want you to remember that everything happened in […]

I love shooting in-home family sessions. It’s such an honor to be welcomed into someone else’s personal space and allowed to see them for who they are. The ease with which the authenticity flows during these sessions is breathtaking. You don’t have to pose or buy new clothes. You don’t have to have a perfected […]

The Maiden; Becoming woman. Maidenhood is fraught with self-concern and a growing knowing. This phase is for exploration, of ourselves, of our world, and of our place within it. Maidenhood is where we should be encouraged to tap into our unique intuition and become its apprentice. The Mother; The Wheel turns and we are no […]

I’ve been contemplating originality for over a year now. Many an artistic guru has touched on this topic, unpacking the nuances of inspiration and originality and how those two things can go together. I love Elizabeth Gilbert’s take on it: That originality is inconsequential and what makes an idea feel original is you; your experience […]

it wasn’t until I started connecting with Nature on a personal level that I finally understood why the literature community is horny for Wordsworth. Natural elements have this metaphorical quality that speaks to our emotions and a true poet knows how to make these connections in a way that moves us.

An in home couple’s session, does it get any more intimate than that? There is something so incredible about being invited into someone else’s space to document their life together. It’s an honor that should not go unmentioned. Listening to these two talk about their life together and their plans for the future was moving. […]

“But I don’t care about the location of the session,” someone recently told me. It was a stab in the guts, but I do understand; most families looking for a photographer just want beautiful pictures and as long as the location is pretty, they don’t care where we shoot. But I do. And this is […]