Journal

So I just finished a really fun trunk show.  I was “a Jane” for the Matilda Jane Paint By Numbers collection.  Here is some of the fun with my trunk keeper Jamie Walther.  And I had a spread of goodies for all the beautiful ladies and girls who stopped by.  Now, two of the very curious […]

I was excited to work with the C. Family.  Mom, J., did a great job styling the outfits together perfectly.  Two years ago when I photographed the family I went to their home for their consultation and we spent a long time pulling the outfits together, and I shared the thought process as we went […]

The lovely, growing, H. family!  Mom E. first heard me speak at a MOPS event at Calvary Community Church (Westlake Village) a few years ago.  We worked together last year to create some really sweet portraits and storyboards of her then-youngest T when he was one-year.  This year she wanted a family portrait session, and […]

Sometimes I get a phone call from a prospective client and I just enjoy the phone call, discussing the client’s hopes for portraits, their story.  E. called me for her family portraits.  They had moved from the Mid West and were in CA, her husband teaching at a prestigious law school, and her family had […]

It seems the rain won’t stop this summer on Lookout Mountain.  We keep hearing that it is “not normally like this” and I know we are well above average for all of the Chattanooga area, but still.  I’m used to CA droughts so this is all new to me.   The entire Fourth of July […]

We were hoping for a neighborhood parade this morning for our first Fourth of July on Lookout Mountain.  Well, thunderstorms and the mountain fog has changed our plans.  The parade is now postponed.  But I took the girls outside, who had their patriotic outfits planned and took a few photos all the same.  And then […]