If you’ve been following my blog for a bit, you know how these trips usually work. (Palm Springs, Big Bear, Big Bear Film & Santa Cruz.)  An amazing group of women rent a house, eat food, drink wine, have long heartfelt conversations and take amazing photographs of each other.  But this trip was a [...]

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  Twice a year I have the most amazing opportunity to spend a few days with some of the most fabulous women I have ever had the pleasure of knowing.  We started as photographer friends, all sharing the bond of wedding photography.  And somewhere along the line, we became just regular friends.  Lunch dates and [...]

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  It seems I was just writing this post with a title of three years.  And I hope that I will be writing posts titled ten years.  And fifty years.  And if I am still capable of typing, perhaps even a post titled eighty years.  It would be the highest honor of my life I [...]

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  Emilia Romagna was pretty much my entire reason for really wanting to go to Italy.  Well, Antica Corte Pallavicina was my entire reason for really wanting to go to Italy.  I’d read this article a few months prior, ripped it out of Bon Appetit magazine and stared at it endlessly.  “Emilia is maximalism incarnate.  [...]

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  After three amazing days in Rome, we rented a car and drove north.  We’d decided to spend an entire day on the weaving roads of Tuscany, stopping in small towns, drinking local wine and walking the tiny streets.  Literally, the tiniest streets I’d ever seen.  I half expected the townspeople to start singing something [...]

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  Seeing the world is incredibly important to me.  Always has been.  Always will be.  As our lives get busier, it seems that the opportunities to travel become fewer and farther between.  But I will always try my hardest to make it a priority for us!   So, mid-November, I decided that if we’re going to [...]

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  One of my absolute favorite things to do is travel.  It was instilled in me from a very early age that it was important to know about the world, to see it with your own eyes.  I traveled a lot with my grandmother: The Caribbean, London, Paris, Alaska.  She gave me the opportunity to [...]

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  My absolute most favorite thing to do on a Sunday morning is head to an antique market.  My husband hates it.  And after much whining and arguing over how much we should be willing to pay for a set of andirons, he is no longer allowed to attend with me.  So, I usually head [...]

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  Sometimes you are incredibly blessed in your life to meet a group of your peers that understand you.  Down to the core, know how you’re built, understand-you-because-they’ve-been-there-too peers.  I think it’s rare to find that in any industry, and even rarer to find it in one as small and competitive as the photography industry.  [...]

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  I don’t really remember the last time I used my "real" camera for personal shooting.  It’s heavy, it’s big, I don’t take it out of the house with me unless I’m working.  I wish I was better about this.  I have point & shoot cameras, but I never seem to remember to bring them [...]

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