3 Pro Tips for Thanksgiving Photos

It’s the week of Thanksgiving!!!!  Since you’ll be gathered already and have smart phones with fancy-shmancy portrait modes, I thought I’d throw out a few pro tips to make the most of the family photos that will inevitably take place this week.  Then you can post your photos with pride and not find yourself wishing […]

Happy Father’s Day!

Back in December this family received a gift voucher for a free family session at a baby shower.  The expecting mom was trying to decide when to use it.  She’d never had maternity photos, so maybe that was an option. She liked the idea of newborn photos (especially with three older siblings to dote over […]

Firsts and Lasts

I know you’ve walked into a small business before and seen a framed dollar bill behind the counter.  It is the first dollar bill they made in sales, and so its significance is frame-able.  There’s just something about “firsts”.  This session was a first for me – it was the first time a senior’s family […]

Stop Pre

It’s not often I meet someone that I’m taller than, but I was taller than this senior guy – when he was five! I may have continued being taller than him for a few more years, but we moved overseas for several years and I lost track of the height comparison. Let’s just say the […]

Music, Art, and Reptiles

Believe it or not, this is not my first senior girl portrait session that has included a bearded dragon!  But that’s not what makes her so interesting. I’ve known this senior from the sidelines at church.  I’ve watched her grow up – a mini version of her mom.  Then I left the country for several […]

Buy a New Camera

The deals are starting to arrive to your inbox, your mailbox, and your social media ads – it’s shopping season!  Is this the time you were waiting for to buy that nice-looking camera?  Don’t let ignorance be the only reason you don’t take advantage of an incredible deal.  Let me break down the essential specs […]

Read Me a Story, Grandma!

I have taken a lot of pictures of grandchildren.  It kind of came with the territory when I lived overseas. I was the adopted aunt for other families, so I brought my camera with me to all the “family” gatherings and snapped pictures that I know I would find precious if I were living an ocean away […]

Posing Secrets for the Average Woman

For all the women out there who hate having their photos taken – here are my favorite Photoshop-free tips for better portraits!  Because… Admit it… One day your kids are gonna love seeing you in these photos (and you should, too)!

Off-the-Wall (and on-the-wall) Ideas for Portraits

In the process of keeping myself educated and constantly refining and developing my products and services, I’ve been taking a Creative Live class for a new idea that will help clients do something with their amazing portraits (thank you, Lori Nordstrom).  I came across this ah-ha! moment that I couldn’t wait to share with you – […]

To the Moms of Graduates

As it warms up (I say that tongue-in-cheek because the radio station is proclaiming a winter advisory for tonight – the fist night of Spring), people are either thinking about two things: Spring break or gardening. Unless you’re the parent of a graduate! And then all you can think about is how you’ll pull off […]

How to Learn Photography with Camels, Cliffs, and Capes

There we were, scaling up the side of a cliff with our camera bags trying to convince us we were headed in the wrong direction and our tripods repetitively slapping the outside of our thighs as if to say, “Idiot. Idiot. Idiot.”  As my foot faltered for the next iron rung of what was almost […]