Posed or Photojournalistic?

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

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

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

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

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...