the moments that take our breath away

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” ~ Maya Angelou

Seven million wonders

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. ~Walt Streightiff

It was a super day

We do not remember days; we remember moments.  
~Cesare Pavese

The future

Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future

~Gail Lumet Buckley

sweet childish days

Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.
~William Wordsworth

Oh. My. How I love these two little people (and the big people that come with them)

Spring Cleaning ...

includes hard drives did you know that? :)

I am offering a spring cleaning deal I have never offered before!

If you've had a session in 2009 or 2010 and are interested in a sweet special on your digital images, please email me for details!

Blessings

It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.
~Christopher Morley

One of my favorite things to do as a photographer is see moments like this one between grandparents and grandchildren. The bond is just magical - and to be able to capture that? Priceless.

this little piggy

Happy today

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
~Groucho Marx

somewhere in the middle

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family”
~Anthony Brandt

only in childhood

Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.
~unknown

truest of true

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart.~unknown

Brothers

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.  ~Marc Brown

Two of my favorite boys!

the extraordinary in everyday life

If I could I'd work without regard to real life obligations, my spirit joyful for being able to show what I see but without your collaboration and investment I could share this with no one. You my clients make it real. You allow me into your hearts and minds and the soul of your family, an honored guest at the banquet of your life and I am beyond grateful.

I try to always reflect this gratitude in what I do. For those that read my blog or follow my work you know that I am short on words often times borrowing the words of others that represent what the portrait I am posting means to me, posting nothing but an image and a simple quote.

Every portrait really tells its story, and because of you and your investment in my business I am able to let my work speak for itself and for your children. These portraits I take of your children will be there in your home when they are grown for you to look back on and see the wonder of childhood, to see the person they were and who they still are, that is an investment worth having made.

Photographing children for me is the essence of pleasure through simplicity, truth meets moment, and magic. As they live it, I get to see again and again the extraordinary in everyday life, in portraits painted by light using my camera to capture childhood as it happens™

Each portrait is a waking dream of the rising and falling of laughter and butterflies in the garden and whispers of sunbeams through rustling trees of holding hands and best friends walking away with bare feet in beach sand and wishes blown through dandelions.

Whenever you trust me to shoot, share or store a moment as rare and precious as these. I truly thank you - the best way I can with images that reflect your children who they are in that moment.

Everything is

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
~Albert Einstein

making lemonade

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
~Marianne Williamson

Some things are more than what you say, they're what you do.

Today I decided to make lemonade.

One moment

“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in”

~Deepak Chopra