I don’t like camping. Raised a good portion of my childhood without running water or power, my life was camping and I worked really hard to never camp ever again. But my husband and my kids love it so I go. May long is a tradition – our first camping trip of the season is […]

When I was 21, I cut all my hair off in a hotel room because god told me to. part one Weeping so hard I could not see through the tears, I handed the scissors over to my eldest cousin to help. When it was finished, my hair only an inch long, all I could […]

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 […]

“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 […]