The JOURNAL

Where have I BEEEEEN?! Well… if you must know. Vacation. The past 2.5 weeks, I’ve been all over the place doing mostly non-work related things… which has been a wonderful break for me (but painful at the same time.) It’s difficult pulling myself away from something I love doing… but it must be done every […]

Last week Betsy turned the ripe age of 21 in Lubbock, Texas. Many secret phone calls and some dollars later…. I stepped off a plane and into the Amarillo heat and made my way to the baggage area. As I rode the escalator down, I saw the person I was looking for…. Trevor. Standing with […]

For some reason, the term “vacation” has not had the magnitude it used to when I was younger. Growing up, vacation meant a week camping at the beach, Skippy Peanut Butter, Boogey Boards, and white bread. The anticipation of “vacation” set up shop in my young brain the second the weather got warmer… and for […]

I had NO IDEA what to expect going into this shoot. When Melisse and I had talked about what her family would like for family portraits, she mentioned that she would love to include her horses in some of the shots. Horses. I’m always up for a challenge…. but still… as Christopher and I drove […]

Loved This. <3

I’ve mentioned it before… the idea of Cross-training. Athletes cross-train to give their bodies a break from their normal sport… and also to work the brain in a different way. Way back when, in my soccer days, I joined a swim team during the summers to cross-train for the Fall soccer season. Not only did […]

I’m not really the wears pink and lace and drinks Cosmo’s type of girl with a wonderfully bubbly personality. I’m not even really the kind of girl who likes to talk about when I’ll have babies and make a home that smells of vanilla and cinnamon all the time. I hate crying, but I do […]

Last Saturday, it felt like summer had come… finally. (But if you took a look outside right now, you would think it’s February still.) We all met up at Irvine Regional Park, my new favorite shooting place and I met the family. Jeanine’s father, Ron, was celebrating his 60th birthday with the whole family… and […]

Do you ever get those cravings? Annoying hankerings for something? Usually it’s food, for me. Chocolate, to be exact. But lately I’ve had this irresistible urge to consume color. I suppose it’s because of the days growing longer and the weather warming up… or maybe it’s because I sit inside at my computer more days […]

I suppose looking back, English was one of my better subjects in school. I liked writing, I just didn’t like pencils that wouldn’t stay sharp… and I didn’t like the hand cramps (in the age before everything was written on a computer). But then I went on a life-changing adventure as a mission photographer with […]