happy halloween!

i love this vintage photograph...it would be so much fun
to re-create it!

i just love this...

i read this today & something about it really struck me. i just had to share...

"The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you have ignored
for another..."

-Derek Walcott, Collected Poems

sophia grows up

this is sophia when i first photographed
her in november of last year. she
had the best baby cheeks!

this is sophia now...so big! and such big beautiful eyes.




i love when i have the opportunity to photograph
families as they grow :-)

caysen

i photographed caysen's mama RIGHT
before she was born & i was so excited
to see her! i'll have to say she is one
chill bambino-just like her folks ;-)

sweet eva

look at those perfect little baby lips!

love me

you know, i am really coming into an appreciation of the way i see things. i went through this phase where i wanted to try to expand myself creatively to this more "artistic" place...and i still would like to do that. i want to learn & push anytime i can. but lately i have just begun to realize that the way i see things is special too. trite but true, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. you can take 3 images & show them to 50 people & ask each person which image they are drawn to the most & you will get a mixture of response. it causes a struggle when i am shooting & editing because my goal is for my client to love the images as much or more than i do. part of what i do is to create something beautiful for THEM. so i am always trying to step out of what i am drawn to in the images & think about what they will be drawn to. after all, i'm shooting someone THEY love. but in the end, i can only produce images i find pleasing. i am drawn to what i love, just by nature. those images that are full of emotion...excitement in the eyes...or even sadness or anger. it's about a moment for me, rather than a look. although sometimes a moment IS a look.

all i know is i am loving what i do, more & more. i don't feel like i'm an 'artist' as much as i'd like to call myself that. i wish i could think that way & i hate to use the word CAN'T, but it just doesn't feel like it fits me. i feel like more of a journalist...documenting moments. that feels right to me.

i am making a list of new ways i want to challenge myself & goals i want to achieve. ahhh...so much to do! but i am excited :-)

fall fun x 2

fall fun

jennifer & pat

it's fall ya'll

and i am ready for all of the upcoming shoots i have scheduled! here are a few of my faves from this time last year :-)