Journal

Talk about contrast! So this image is a Thanksgiving side-by-side with last year on Lookout Mountain, Georgia next to a picture from this year: Thanksgiving Eve on Maui, as the girls prepared for a hula-worship performance at church. It is one of those images, when side-by-side that makes me thankful for a rich variety of […]

I was just looking back at this family photo shoot I did at the very beginning of November last year, and appreciating those fall colors that you don’t really see on trees in Maui.  There are some bright fish and flowers and a different beauty to be found though.  I digress.  Back to this location– it […]

Every fall I take my girls to the pumpkin patch, it is an autumn tradition and one of my favorites. I look forward to going every year. The pumpkin patch tradition started 10 years ago when we were in Westlake Village and visited the ever-popular Underwood Family Farms. Now the weather in Southern California is […]

Doing a little bit of editing on this beautiful girl’s portraits and just had to share. I so enjoyed photographing her and her brother at her Thousand Oaks home, but more of that to come. For now I just wanted to share this one from Maui– doesn’t she look so pretty?

I have totally enjoyed Kiara on a few photo shoots now, and this was a great one too– this time with her fabulous mom and dad. Obviously when somebody is as talented and athletic (and just awesome!) as Kiara, you are going to have some pretty great parents too. So here they are, all together, […]

He finally got it.  After all these years he understood. My husband had gone from totally frustrated to tolerant to sometimes thankful, and now, finally, years later, an epiphany reached his heart. This is why I take so many (like so so so many) pictures: it can all change so quickly. Yesterday can be a chapter […]