I love parties.  Love love love parties.  I love the details and the planning.  I love the outfits and the excitement.  I’ll take any excuse to throw a party!  My birthday and Chris’ are just a few weeks apart and usually we have one big party.  Last year, we had a kids theme party [...]

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  The day of the Jose Villa Workshop, I left my house at 5 am.  See, I didn’t realize until the night before that Los Olivos wasn’t quite as near to Santa Barbara as I expected.  Turns out, it’s not near at all.   So, with a very large coffee and some great music, I made [...]

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  Last month Chris and I curled up in bed after a long day of shooting and watched The President’s Photographer, a documentary following fifty years of official White House photographers.  It heavily focused on the simple act of documenting history.  They shoot absolutely everything, form relationships with the leaders of our country and give [...]

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  Continuing my obsession with my little film camera, I brought it along with me to Big Bear.   I fall more in love with each click. Yes, that is a roasting pan used as a reflector.  Yes, we are professionals.  

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  Last summer it started as a simple desire.  To visit The Ace Hotel in Palm Springs.  It started with two friends and ended up with 9 photographers hanging out by the pool, drinking cocktails in bed and having photo shoots in a van. It was the beginning of what has proven to be an [...]

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  I’ll be out of my office doing some skiing in Big Bear with some fantastic photographer friends!  I’m not sure what kind of internet access I’ll have.  But I’ll definitely be back to work on Friday January 28 and will reply as promptly as possible!  If this is an emergency, feel free to give [...]

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  When Chris and I were dating, he once said to me "I’m so happy that my life is happening with you."  He said it in passing, not a particularly special moment.  And yet, it’s stuck with me for many many years.  I quoted it in our wedding vows.  It’s so simple.  So real. That [...]

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    Most people are surprised to find out where I’m from.  They kind of look at me in shock and can’t quite figure out how I made the transfer from a teeny tiny small town in the South to Los Angeles.  I grew up in Oriental, North Carolina.  It’s a small town of about [...]

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  Chris & I are planners.  We think and research and talk to people and do more research.  Then we think some more.  And eventually we might make a decision.  But we like to take time.   On occasion, we’ll decide to go about things a little bit differently though.  Two weeks ago, on a lovely [...]

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  My mother is an amazing seamstress.  Her mother was an amazing seamstress.  I feel as if it runs in my blood.  So, a few months ago, my friend Jess & I took a sewing class and I fell in love.  We learned how to make pillow cases and I’ve probably made, oh, 395 pillows [...]

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