Posed or Photojournalistic?

by | Aug 23, 2012 | Families, Personal

Yesterday a client and I were talking about style. Photographic styles have changed so much in the last few decades, that everyone seems to have a different expectation of what a successful picture will look like. Often, within the same family, one person will want a...

Window Light

by | Aug 10, 2012 | Personal, photography

This is a really bad scan of my one of my favorite wedding photos from my wedding (see, this was way back when before digital). Eleven years ago, Juan and I married on Canandaguia Lake, NY in a small afternoon celebration.I am looking out of the window at Juan and his...

Smartphone vs. SLR

by | Jul 5, 2012 | Personal, photography

I was just working with a client, finishing up a shoot of her 8 month old, the last of her six children. She said to me “I had no idea you couldn’t print photos taken on a Smartphone!” She had been documenting her baby’s first year with her...

New Installation

by | Jul 5, 2012 | Personal

For those of you who have been to my shared studio space in Mt. Pleasant, DC, you know that I do wall art for Past Tense Yoga Studio. Every year, I create a new exhibit, and we auction off the previous year’s work and donate the proceeds.This year, I wanted to...

Gifts

by | May 11, 2012 | Personal

I’m not exactly sure what I did in a past life to be so blessed as to have this creative gift.When I first contemplated moving from an office job to an interactive, creative, physical job, I had rewire my brain. There were a lot of “truths” that I...