Tag Archives: Family


Our Brand New Family of Three


Is there anything more beautiful than a newborn babe, especially a firstborn?  All the newness of fresh life and becoming parents is exhilarating and exhausting.  Overwhelming and over joyous.  Ryan and Mandee invited me into that sacred space and gave me the privilege of photographing their firstborn son. We’d prayed together for his health and safe arrival throughout Mandee’s pregnancy. […]

Family Photos are Next


Toby’s senior photo session came first.  His mom was so happy with the images that she texted, “Family photos are next.”  We followed through on a gorgeous fall day. The Jordan’s live on a farm complete with an old barn, llamas, cows and dogs. There is no shortage of fun things for their five kiddos to do. The morning of the […]

Worked Her Magic In the Midst of the Rain


My friend Kim sent me a text at 12:22 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon. “I was going to see if you might be up for a last minute extended fam photo shoot today at 3. Our photographer is sick and just cancelled.” The text didn’t mention there were FIFTEEN people involved in these photos.  Or that the weather forecast was for […]

Stupendous!


My friend Zora is full of life and love and beauty.  She’s also a zesty Puerto Rican and I love her spirit and spunk. Her IDENTICAL twin sister came to visit from the East Coast so we decided to squeeze in a last-minute photo session of them with their kiddos. It was a sunny, warm fall afternoon spent with beautiful people […]

Being a Mother of Four Helps Jodi Be That Much More Understanding


Last year I photographed the Nanson family.  Their darling girls were not interested in posed, traditional photographs so we let them guide the session and I chased them around the park snapping photos.  We got beautiful candids of their girls and even managed to get a few lovely family photos. This year I had the privilege of photographing their family […]