earth hour

Saturday is the day for Earth Hour. From 8:30 to 9:30 pm, turn your lights off to save the earth. It's easy, it's fun, it's so simple...

Last year we played games by candlelight for that hour, and then decided to spend the rest of the evening in darkness, Adriana asked if we could have earth hour every week, unfortunately, we didn't follow through with that, but maybe this year!

So join me, my studio, the Empire State building, Broadway, the state of Arkansas, and thousands of others and take a tiny step that will make a difference...

Visit their website for tips, info., games for the kids, and to sign-up and then turn out those lights!!!

(earth tip for today, did you know that chargers plugged into the wall are using electricity whether or not they're charging anything?)

welcome Lydia!

Lydia was in a hurry to arrive, she came weeks earlier than was planned, but what a gift she is!
Tara was so amazingly beautiful when she was pregnant, all moms to be definitely have that glow, but she was truly radiant... Happy, confident, beautiful, imagine all the gifts that were being given to Lydia before she made her rather grand entrance!
Lydia was so sweet at her first portrait session, 3 weeks, and so expressive with her hands, she made us laugh as she used her hands to do the talking she's got to wait a while to do! Babies really are so unique, immediately... how very cool it all is...
I love the way that as a photographer, I get to share in all of these fantastic parts of life, pregnancy, babies, next time I see Tara & Lydia it will be at the beach this summer when I'll get to meet dad too... I already can't wait for the session!!

(Happy Birthday to my beautiful sister, Marla. I love you xxx)

class of '09

some of the fabulous seniors we photographed this year... Congrats to you all, we wish you all the best in life...

2008 - a year in review...

Some of the portraits I've taken over the past year, enjoy...

2008 Portraits

I'm in Mexico for the next couple of weeks for a little r&r, I'm sure I'll have lots to share when I get back...

celebrate love

I think it's great there's a holiday to celebrate love... Have a fabulous Valentine's Day, tell those you care about how much you love them... Ray, I can't imagine my life without you, you are my hero... I adore you, and our life together... Adriana, you are my favorite person ever in the history of the world, in the words of my darling Cappers, you are the dog's dinner (yes, it turns out that is a good thing!)

Celebrate love this weekend... Celebrate your family...

Happy Valentine's Day...

Keira

a new baby, what a great way to start the year! Keira is so beautiful, she had this great, teeny tiny, smile, and was so expressive! It was as if she was telling a story in every photo, and every tale was so worth listening to...

What a beauty! So lovely to meet you, sweet Keira...

snowy days

It's so damp and snowy out there today, it just isn't very inspiring! I keep thinking of a workshop I participated in last night with a dear friend, and fantastic photographer, Carol Lundeen, on creativity... One of the things we tried was pretty crazy! We had to look at a painting upside down, and draw it, right side up, with our non-dominant hand (I'm right handed, so I used my left hand!). It's way harder than it sounds, well, to start off drawing with your 'wrong' hand is pretty tricky, but your brain really struggles to notice details and figure out where to put things and which way they should face, etc. A few people drew the picture upside down even though we were told to correct it! Our brains are quirky things! It's actually a great project for this, shall we say, less than banner day! I think I'm going to try it drawing one of my portraits, and see what happens!