Journal

Last weekend I had the pleasure of photographing “Princess T.” and her book-themed first birthday party.  Family came from all over– her super-sprie 90-year old great grandma even flew in from Wisconsin, and grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends little and big all came to celebrate.  I often think that first birthday parties are more […]

This past spring, fellow homeschooling mom, D., told me that they she wanted me to do her son’s senior pictures.  I was so excited because I really enjoy doing high school senior portraits.  And then they had the exciting news that their fifth child was going to officially join their family in June.  This was […]

I don’t think that I need not say too much because this sweet girl, miss S. here is AMAZING and a total delight.  It was almost 100-degrees with flies everywhere, and she was so professional and such a trooper.  I had so much fun getting to help style her for the images and direct her […]

I recently had the opportunity to spend some time with the S. family and hang out until the sun went down.  We enjoyed our evening together exploring, playing, and I must admit, offering the occasional bribe.  But M. & M. are so cute and were loved by the camera, and I even got big-sis M. […]

When mom, N., called me (with her beautiful English accent) to do some family portraits before they moved out of state, we decided on the beach.  After all, as my own extended family would agree, Chicago doesn’t have Malibu beaches (although it is a fantastic city!)  The first try had to be rescheduled because of […]

The other week I had a fantastic time heading down to downtown Los Angeles.  A pleasant change from suburbia.  It was a full circle moment when I thought about how the family that the husband was from has known me pretty much since birth.  Granted, I haven’t seem them  quite possibly for decades.  (It was […]