(…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 [...]

I feel almost as though I grew up with Leeann, in spite of the fact that I didn’t meet her until my second year of college. She is one of the few friends I’ve ever had with whom I got to make memories together – from one crazy late night tromping around DC in the [...]