The day was in full glow when we got together for this shoot. Quite literally, a walk in the park, my favorite. The sun lit up this beautiful family… extravagant, luxurious light. I loved watching the big sisters gaze at their baby brother. And how willing they were to curl up in a blanket with…
Continue Reading about Bowman {Family} Lime Bluff Park, Hughesville, Pa →
The Kelly’s & us Dolan’s go way back. Jim was a bandmate with my hubs. They smoked stogies together on my porch in Ocean Grove the day I brought my newborn son home. We’ve all attended the weddings of friends over the years. Exchanged Christmas cards. Run into each other’s families when we hit the…
Continue Reading about The Kelly {Family} Brick, NJ August 2012 →
If we were in a room, with four walls, it would have been buzzing. This family of three sisters and their loving parents met with me for a shoot in the park brimming, bubbling, twitchy with excitement. Smiles were all over the place – even as dad got used to a camera aimed in his…
Continue Reading about Ammar-Khodja {Family Portrait} Picture Rocks, Pa August 2012 →
Jaime & I scheduled our session and it fell on a blustery Pooh Bear kind of day. It was so windy! Before our appointment, I sat brainstorming. I thought and I thought some more. Fabric? Several yards worth?? Hm! Just as I was scheming a stop at Joanne’s I ran it by my mother-in-law, wondered if she…
Continue Reading about Jaime {Maternity} Spring Lake, NJ April 2012 →
So, they’re Scottish. The Highland bagpipes are the ones you can hear from miles & miles away. The Irish pipes are often called small pipes and sound as different as ukuleles do to an acoustic guitar. Its a haunting plaintive music, the pipes. A sound I’ve grown used to over the years being married to a…
Continue Reading about Beards & Bagpiping Hughesville, Pa March 2012 →
I like the cracks and fissures in everyday objects that tell us they’ve been around a while, a lot longer than the time I’ve taken to notice. And I love photographing old homes and buildings for that same reason. Usually, I can manage to find my own patient subjects but this time I was asked! to document…
Continue Reading about Farmhouse {Architecture} Hughesville Pa January 2012 →
