When I was a little girl my grandmother used to call me Precious Pearl. The name came to be because there was a doll called Poor Pitiful Pearl. I’ve been told that I used to mostly walk around with a grumpy look on my face. I don’t doubt it. Many of the photos I’ve seen […]
Can we talk? I’ll be honest, 2016 was an off year for me. My head didn’t feel totally in the game and I knew I needed to take a step back. A bit of a creative reprieve while I did a little soul searching. I took on fewer shoots so I didn’t feel like by […]
It surprises me every year. The year flies by and I wonder how it is that it’s *already* the week after Thanksgiving and I’m behind on pretty much everything. Yet here it is, November 29th and I still haven’t photographed my boys for our Christmas card. I truly believe I work best under pressure which is […]
(sigh. sips coffee) There is much to be said today. Social media is flooded with sadness, disbelief and anger today. I am choosing to not be a part of the rhetoric. Instead I want to focus solely on positivity. What we must do is teach our children love, respect, acceptance and kindness. It all starts […]
It’s that time–again. We look at our calendars and wonder how it could possibly be August already. It feels like I was just taking the last-day-of-school photos on the front porch. Backpacks and old school papers, worn crayons and eraser-less pencils, temporarily shuffled into the catch-all corner until I know what to do with it […]
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