Category Archives: Personal

Reflections one year later

January 8, 2011, I was working at home in the Phoenix area, editing photos as my 5 week-old son played on his floor mat beside me, when I heard on the radio that a gunman had gone on a rampage in Tucson, killing a number of innocent people and shooting Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in the...

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My look back at 2011

Wyatt and I watch the fire during our first family camping trip. I am not one for big New Year’s resolutions but I do like to take a little time to reflect at the last 12 months. This was a wonderful year both personally and professionally. I had the privilege of documenting the engagements, weddings...

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Gwen- Newborn photography

I was so lucky to meet Gwen while I was back home in Virginia a couple weeks ago. Miss Gwen, the daughter of my longtime friends Christine and Dan, was a week early. She is already such a little overachiever! She has the most delicate slender fingers. I also feel lucky to have been able...

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Photographing an icon

It is not often that a photo assignment makes me nervous anymore. Back when I was fresh out of school and in my very first newspaper internship at the Bay City Times and Bay City, Michigan I would get so nervous before work that I could barely eat and I thought about little else other...

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Dan and Christine couples portrait- Annandale, Virginia

Last week David, Wyatt and I made an East Cost tour visiting friends and family in New Jersey where David grew up and Virginia where I am from. It was a nice change of scenery to be out of the desert and to be surrounded by green. While in Virginia my close friends Dan and...

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