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As a portrait and branding photographer who loves adventuring with my camera, I often get questions about gear, as well as how I save, share, and display my images. With the holidays approaching, I thought I’d channel my inner Oprah and share some of my favorite camera gear, my recommendations for photo file storage, and […]

Some of my Favorite (Photography)Gifts for the Holiday

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(warning – longer than usual post, and probably far more about me personally than I have ever shared). My friends and I have had a running joke involving  New Years resolutions this year. We make declarations and pronouncements and then it all goes awry… we eat that sugary food, we don’t go to the proclaimed exercise […]

This is me (in 2018)

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  As I have a rare moment this Mother’s day morning to sit and peruse my facebook feed, I am happy to see so many posts about and pictures of friends with their mothers – and  I am startled to realize that it’s been 10 years that I haven’t had mine around me. I am startled not […]

What I remember about Mom

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