When planning a portrait session, I'm often asked for suggestions about where the session should take place. There are a few specific things I look for when I'm scoping out a setting.

This past fall I got to take senior pictures for my sister-in-law Hope, and it was definitely the most unique session I've ever done! Hope's session took place at her family's farm so she could include all the animals in her portraits. My husband was with me for this s...

Happy New Year! I hope as you look back on your 2018, you find a lot of great memories. I recently re-read my end-of-year post from 2017 and I found myself thinking, "Wow, was this really only a year ago?" Since this time last year, I've gotten a new logo and started i...

I wasn't really planning to post about taking pictures of snow in the middle of November, but since we already had a brief snowfall and more is in the forecast, I figured I might as well!

As much as I resist the coming of winter and the first snow of the year, there is...

This year for our summer trip, Brad and I drove up to Canada for a few days to visit Toronto and see Niagara Falls. This was our first international trip together, and even though we were only a few hours from the U.S. border, it was exciting to be in another country.

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I have a few tips here for taking great photos while you're traveling. Of course, all the standard photography advice applies, but these tips focus on finding ways to capture the story of your trip.

I’m excited to have Demi as part of this project. She and I have been friends for over two decades. We met when we were in preschool gymnastics together, and then we went to the same elementary school up through eighth grade. As kids we turned my parents’ dining room t...

I am really excited to begin my Dear Senior project, and I’m just as excited that my sister is my first feature.

The word "selfie" was Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year in 2013, but Oxford Dictionary's website suggests that the word may have been first used as early as 2002.

I am excited to announce that I am starting a personal photography project that will take the form of a portrait series. I call it the "Dear Senior" project, and you'll have to read on to see why!

In honor of this post, I'm sharing a couple of my own senior pictures fro...