February 13, 2013

be in love | the balance of HERE

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” ― Meister Eckhart People often ask me how I balance my work and my family. I usually take a deep breath before I answer, knowing that what I answer will probably change their opinion of me, one way or the other, because you see, there is [...]

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December 21, 2012

Unselfconscious | Discovering HDR, Or Not

I would give a lot to know how to be as unselfconscious as Pip is, even when she is posing. Sometimes, I think she’s the biggest poser I have known, and then I realize that this is her, that she’s narrating her own life story and she’s not grown-up enough to beat herself up for [...]

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November 1, 2012

In Which We Play Dress-Up

Pip wanted to wear the veil; I wanted to practice with my lighting/post-processing. I love it when our goals for playtime get mutual satisfaction. Makes me hope that someday we’ll get along a bit better than we do now. And then there is Squiggy…

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October 16, 2012

Squiggy’s Apple Photos

This. Cuteness. lives at my house. And he let me take his picture for a change. I got to take exactly fifteen shots, each carefully posed by His Little Self, and then it was, “All done now, Mommy,” and it was over. I expect he’s probably the best teacher I’m gonna find for taking the [...]

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October 1, 2012

I See the Moon (Or, Roadtripping with Squiggy)

We were on the road for six days. It was a trip we had planned, postponed, and reworked to the point that it was no longer a vacation as we’d wanted – it became an epic trek that to see as many people we loved as we could. So while the company was home and [...]

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