How to actually ENJOY a family photo shoot with young children! One of the benefits of being a photographer with two small children myself is that I already know what most children are going to do during a photo session.  Making silly faces? Of course.  Staring off into space?  Yep!  Picking their nose?  Oh sure.  Breaking […]

I am by nature a creative, detail-obsessed, master procrastinator.  S0, it is a tremendous accomplishment that I managed to do something I promised myself (and all of you!) that I would do….  I CREATED MY FAMILY’S FIRST ANNUAL YEARBOOK!  Last fall, in this post, I recounted some rather painful instances of losing some precious digital pictures […]

Another one of my favorite senior sessions from our time in AZ! What an incredible time I’ve been having with HS Senior Portfolio Building!  For this session, Emma and her younger sister met me at the gorgeous Brown Canyon Ranch- my favorite place to shoot.  The rain that had postponed us left us gorgeous yellow flowers […]

This one of my favorite sessions on the blog, from back when we lived in beautiful Arizona… One of the things I love most about living out west is the surprisingly beautiful surroundings. Having grown up in Michigan, I’m accustomed to leaves, grass, and everything green.  Like many, I pictured only rocks, sand, and cacti here before […]

In the past few years as I’ve grown my little business, one thing that I already knew but became more and more evident to me was how important it is to PRINT your photographs.   I’m always elated when clients choose to purchase prints, canvases, albums, and the like because I know that 80 years […]