Before baby was born: an in-home maternity photoshoot

Are you pregnant? Is a baby growing in your belly? Pause a while, take a deep breath, inhale this moment and capture it in your mind. What is life like right now? What do you feel right now? In this moment. What would you like to remember? Step forward into a future...

Memories. They’re timeless.

Time is not something we can buy. Time is a gift. The passing of time is most noticeable in nature's cycles and seasons and children growing up. There is always enough time. Spend it wisely. Photograph the everyday as well as the important moments. One day you'll look...

Life is amazing

Life is amazing. And then it's awful. And then it's amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it's ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That's just living...

To be comforted by photographs

I believe our photographs belong in the real world; on walls, in frames and in albums. We want to see them and have them easily accessible. Every day. I'm curious about the generations who follow me. What will they want? I have boxes of old sepia and black and white...

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Fun Family Traditions: Pumpkin Carving for Halloween

Fun Family Traditions: Pumpkin Carving for Halloween

This year we took the stencil stickers off our pumpkins and decided to draw freehand. Rebekka began drawing on hers, meanwhile I got started on Lea's - she'd asked for a cat with a heart nose. Then Rebekka looked over and saw what I was doing and decided she no longer...

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My Own Family Photographs

My Own Family Photographs

A year has passed since we had these photographs taken of our family. Lea was three years old at the time, but not for long. A few weeks later she would turn four and it would be the start of school for her! Having our family photographs taken was a wonderful way to...

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The O’Clock Project | A personal photography project

The O’Clock Project | A personal photography project

Creativity was calling and I'd been thinking about starting a new personal photography project when I came across the O'Clock Project on Instagram [see #oclockproject2019]. The project is a month long creativity exercise whereby you choose the craziest hour of your...

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