A little over a month ago, I got to announce the winner of my Crazy Out-of-My-Mind Photography Contest: Peter Pollock. Peter’s winning entry was a story he’s writing for his wife, the story of their long-distance, bi-continental romance, meeting, and marriage. He asked me to find some models to tell his story, which meant creating [...]

So you’re engaged. I bet you’re starting to look at photography options for your wedding and engagement photos. You want to find a photographer who will tell your story for you, someone who will see you and your love. (*grin* If you’re not looking for that, you might not want to keep reading, because that’s [...]

I’m so excited. Smokes, I am so excited. I’ve been formulating for weeks about the winner of this giveaway. How I could make what work. How could I tell this story in photos? How did that story fit my contest rules? What brought my imagination to life? How did it fit with who I am [...]

There was a coworker friend in my life who loved my pictures, and she decided that she wanted me to shoot her wedding. I had no idea what I was doing, but I said yes. I was going to shoot free, since I learn on the job and I’d had no experience whatsoever, but she [...]

That fall I went to college, and I took my camera with me. I was a secretarial major, but my crush there had a real SLR (single-lens-reflex) camera, and he took pictures for the yearbook. I hoped to connect with him on photography. Yeah, I was a total dork. But I still took pictures with [...]

Two years or so after I got my first camera, we were living in Colorado and the mountains had swept my heart away. I remember talking with my dad about photography. I think he might have been bored with my sharing, but I still remember the passion in my self as I explained to him [...]

Once upon a time, on an ice-frosted Christmas morning when I was about twelve years old, I received my very first camera. It was a little blue 35mm point-and-shoot, pretty worthless to any “real” photographer. But it held film and it took pictures. And I fell in love. I had been trying to draw and [...]