Hooray for vacations! Tomorrow Ben and I will be heading to California for some much needed R&R and adventuring (those two sound like they shouldn't go together, but somehow the combo always works for us). It's kind of coming at the perfect time - I've been fighting this week with something I hear a lot of other people are right now too. Health Insurance. Don't worry, I'm no[...]
A few days ago...no weeks...no maybe it's been a month? I can't remember, so many things have gone on lately that days feel like mere hours and it feels like it happened yesterday...I caught part of Susan Stripling's keynote on Creative Live's Photo Week (brilliant, btw). I've heard so many of my photog friends rave about her work, although I never really felt like our styles meshed well[...]
One time an interviewer asked me what my dream job would be. I should have said photographer, but instead, I said that it would be to work for a magazine, making up cool stories and bringing them to life. And then photographing them. Some people might call this a creative director. Which is one of my favorite parts of my job these days. I like to think of myself as the creative direct[...]
There is nothing that I love more than working with people who share their creativity through any type of art - music, dance, theater, design. These are my people. So the instant my salsa teachers mentioned they'd be interested in doing photos so that they can get the word out to Annapolis that there is a salsa community here, I was all like Let's DO IT. And then spent the next week d[...]
A few weeks ago I posted my first video. And mentioned that I was super excited about it. The super excited part was a little bit of an understatement. To put it in perspective...Ben was away on a business trip and when I finally exported the finished video at 11:30pm, I called him and made him watch it right that second. And then I couldn't sleep. And then the next day I went to yoga and did[...]
They say making the effort to just get started is the hardest part. Which is definitely how I feel after being away from blogging for awhile. It's not hard to want to blog, but it's hard to make words appear when I sit down with my laptop to write. I want to say so many things...but in time, not all at once. I didn't intend to take a break, but I've learned that there's an ebb and a flo[...]
I've been eating year old cake for a week. Which can only mean one thing...we made it through one year of being married! Well, that, and the cake actually survived the year in the freezer without becoming freezer burnt. It might not be as soft and fluffy as I remember it being a year ago (and is probably the only thing I remember eating that day), but I'm still consuming it like it's the[...]
To say I'm excited about sharing this is an understatement. When Mandy asked about doing a family session, I was so excited because she's also a photographer. There is no higher honor than doing a session for someone who also creates beautiful images and understands exactly what goes into what you do. I also got excited because I thought it was my chance. A chance to take a step into som[...]
I can think of nothing more lovely than to be married at sunset, surrounded by only the closest of family, in a simple ceremony followed by an intimate meal shared by those you love most in the world. Which is exactly how Allison and Marc's day unfolded at the Annapolis Wedding Chapel. What happens when you strip away all of the things that are "supposed" to be part of a wedding is that[...]
We joked while they were getting ready for their Kent Manor wedding that they were not a normal bride and groom. Normal, yes, in that they love each other to pieces and couldn't wait to spend the rest of their lives together. But not normal in their lack of stress, their state of relaxation, and most importantly...no jitters. And why on earth would you have anything but inner peace when[...]