I could not get enough of his amazing hair!
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Sometimes you’ve just had enough. HAHAHA!
Happy Birthday, Miss Abby! Your happy photos will be posted soon!
Hair. We love it and we hate it. If we have straight hair we want it curly. If we have curly hair we want it straight. If it’s brown we want it blonde. If it’s blonde we want it brown. You would never believe, by looking at how much hair I have now, that my mom used to cry because I did not have hardly any hair for quite sometime. I was born a blonde, as many kids. I stayed blonde until right before I started kindergarten, when I got the ‘Dorthy Hamle” cut. You all know the one. Then my hair darkened quite a bit over the years and was stick straight. I had my fair share of perms. I cringe now at all those toxi fumes and damage done to my hair during those years, but I wanted curls, by golly! It was not until I hit about 9th grade or so that I began to notice this change in my hair. It was really wavy out of no where and I also began to see these hints of red and strawberry blonde. It also became much more full and thick. Of course, by this time, I wanted my hair straight. HA! It has only been in the most recent years that I am truly appreciating all the wave and body that my hair has. Sure, I have days when I want to be different and I attempt to blow it out straight even though it does not last too long. And I have day’s when I just wish it were less bushy, but most days I just embrace what God has given me. Au-natural body and lots of waves! It is so much easier and my husband love it, which is an added bonus!
{my not so good attempt at a self portrait of my crazy hair; air dried with no styling}
Amy- I think this is a lovely self-portrait! I love the angle that you went with, so much more unique than the usual straight forward self portrait. Oh, and it definitely showcases that beautiful head of hair that you have! Love it!
Look who just turned the big 2! I think she is just a little happy about her birthday!
Look who I got to photograph recently. They just turned four months old. Are they little fashionistas or what?
I had the privilege of meeting and photographing this beautiful child recently and her four, yep, four bothers. She and I share a common bond. We were both adopted. What an exciting time for her and her new family!
And there is MUCH for fun that revolves around her adoption, so be sure to stay tuned!
How precious! What a beautiful moment you have captured for this family! Can’t wait to see the rest!
Love these colors!
Emma has that dress from Gymboree!
Without going into this long post about why custom photography cost so much and blah, blah, blah. I thought it good to show you just one reason (among many) people hire me rather than going to a shoot and burn photographer or one of those retail chains.
Because I not only photograph your family, but I hand edit each final image. I take a good photo and make it pop. I did not use any stock ‘actions’ to edit this photograph. I simply did a few of my standard Photoshop tweaks. There is nothing wrong with actions. There are more than enough to choose from on the market. When I was first learning Photoshop, actions were very helpful to me in order to help me better understand layers and such. But now, I find that the time it takes me to find an action and run it, I could have already edited the picture on my own. So for me, time is the number one reason I don’t use actions. However, I do use a Facebook resizing action for images I upload to facebook, but I don’t consider that part of my editing process. 
So true! As much of photography happens after the shoot as it did when people were spending hours in chemical-soaked rooms developing and printing their own work for their clients.
Fantastic image!
“Every good and perfect gift is from above.” – James 1:17
It took some patience for this little one to get to sleep, but I have perseverance like few.
This sweet puppy I actually photographed right before Christmas, but I remembered how much I loved this photo and had not yet shared it. So, what better way than to showcase it on the wall of an office because I think it is so important to give a visual on how a certain size photo would look on a real wall. This image is a large size, sure, but when you put it on a wall, especially if you want it to be the anchor piece/focus point on the wall, then, indeed, it is not all that big.