May 21, 2013 1

For the Love

I have no idea I do this. I’m only seeing what is in front of me. Apparently I zoom with my whole body? This photo of me shooting one of our old wedding couples (going on seven years now – LAWD!!!) is by my husband. Who came up to surprise me all romantic-like on Saturday [...]

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April 11, 2013 8

Getting Down to Business

One of the hardest things about growth in our current social-media-driven climate is that everything you share or publish has to be ON, from the get-go. But that doesn’t leave much room to get from point A to point B anymore – even if you don’t know what point B is or HOW to get [...]

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February 6, 2013 0

behind the lens | in which i must be vulnerable

So I don’t know if you know this, but I have this whole “tortured artist” thing going on behind my lens. There is something that happens when I’m shooting by myself, something that gets me up out of my chair and says “you are going to take pictures or explode, darn it” that is like [...]

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December 12, 2012 6

Behind the Lens | Finding Light in the Dark

Without any rhyme without any reason my heart lifts to light in this bleak season. – M. L’Engle, “The Glory,” WinterSong Confession: I would never have seen light without my depression. Depression is, in a sense, my gateway to glory, the weight of existing as God made me and not trying to shape my own [...]

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November 23, 2012 2

The Day After Thanksgiving

“It’s sage,” she told me, when I asked about the lavender in her garden. I caught the light as it fell down into it, saved it lovely for later. We baked bread two ways wrong yesterday, two apple pies, and sweet potatoes with apples and figs, and we went for an afternoon meal and visit [...]

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