(…and some other sleeping things.) I absolutely could not resist this photo. And I only got one shot off before he woke up. This is my boy, dropping wherever he finds a “warm cozy” and falling into sleep without so much as a by-your-leave. This is the boy who yells at me to put him [...]

It has been months since my last photo installment from L.L. Barkat’s book, God in the Yard. I suppose I got hung up on this chapter because I half-wanted to, didn’t really want to think about the idea L.L. approaches here, “self-care.” She writes, There were days when I would come to the woods and [...]

I have some pretty strong reasons to love the royal wedding – Kate’s dress and her style gave me a flashback to some of my previous brides. I’m getting ready to put some of my old weddings up here at the blog, weddings I shot before I realized I could be using my blog to [...]

We’re shooting distractions at Three this week – this was mine, pink flowers at Balboa Park on a wedding day morning, when I should have been prepping for my wedding shoot. But I hit the park instead, and pretty much fell in love with these blossoms. Pete had moved on before he realized I was [...]

I wasn’t going to do it. Everybody in the wedding industry has been talking about this wedding for weeks. I have smiled and I’ve shaken my head, and I’ve even rolled my eyes a few times. But yesterday, it hit me that this might be the only time in my lifetime I will get to [...]

It was early, early morning, long before I should have been up. There was a mist outside, and a streetlight falling through it onto our neighbors’ blossoms, and though I was tired, I couldn’t resist the lure of the dark. It spoke deep to me of my story, spoke color to me that I’d covered [...]

Early in my photography journey, someone told me that I should remember to live in the world, instead of merely standing on the sidelines to observe it. As photographers, it is easy for us to claim the wallflower position, standing on the fringes of everything without engaging ourselves with it… I’m at High Calling Focus [...]