My husband and I have always had a running joke in our relationship. He’s Mr. Practical and therefore never really bought cut flowers for me early on in our relationship. He always bought a potted plant. The reasoning was that the cut flowers die so quickly where as a potted plant would keep on giving....
My roots in photography are actually planted in nature. I started my journey all those years ago with landscape and macro photography. Once my son arrived (and we moved back East) my focus shifted to little humans and their keepers. However, now and I again I yearn for something different – to stretch my creative...
This family has to be one of my favorite families. I’ve grown with them as much as they’ve grown with me. Every year it’s a great pleasure to photograph them and see how much they’ve grown. This session we returned to Claude Moore Park in Sterling Virginia where we actually held little man’s first birthday...
We took a short summer break last month for this 6 on the 6th blog circle – to be expected because of the vacations I suppose. However, we’re back! Showing off 6 of our favorite images from the past month. Most of mine revolve around our vacation to Mt. Rainier (which I should share in...
When we had that nice burst of spring last month we decided to get the kids out of the house and on to the trails. We were hoping to plan a backpack trip with them for the end of the month and wanted to see how they’d do on a longer hike to see what...
I was attracted to photography at a young age. It started with a 110 Le Click camera and lots of my parents money on film and developing. As I grew my dad let me use his Minolta SLR and we’d go out on photo walks through the neighboring park. I’d drag my brother along to...
My favorite time to photograph is what we like to call “the golden hour”. This time is the hour or two just prior to sunset and the hour or two just after sun rise. During this time period the sun is lower on the horizon and casting longer shadows. Also, as the name suggests, it’s...
I’m going to cheat this week and use something from the archives. We used to be landscape photographers way back in the day!
