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  • Memory Books

  • Halloween fun food!

    Check out these favorites: AMAZING Spider webs – Check it out at CAKE WHIZ! ______________________________________________________________________ This is so yummy – I just had to share.  Check it out at A FOOD CENTRIC LIFE

  • Our favorite stories.

    About a year ago we decided that we would do a calendar project to benefit a children.  We finally have our first calendar complete.  It was our first year – and after all of the work and organizing put into it…. Jenny up and says… “so… are we doing this again next year?”  Of course…

  • PHOTOS in the love of food.

    PHOTOS in the love of food.

    Food photography is an amazing thing that draws the viewers and makes them say yum… or not.  Do any of you have one or more cookbooks sitting on your shelf?  Now how many recipes have you actually made that DIDN’T have a corresponding photo? It’s the law of averages – the more  photos that tell…

  • I almost missed the “Peach” month. What was I thinking?

    So most of August peaches escaped my radar.  Of course, I am a photographer – mom – wife… first.  But WHAT WAS I THINKING?  This is one of my favorite fruits and in a month when we are suppose to be celebrating the mighty “Peach” it almost slipped by me.  THANK GOODNESS, I caught a…

  • BABY Jack tab blankets

    BABY Jack tab blankets

    SUPER happy to say that I’m now carrying Baby Jack tab blankets at our new studio in Denver.  Both my kids LOVED their tab blankets – in fact they wore them completely out because they carried them everywhere.  They are super soft and have the great sensory tabs and nice and small so your kids…

  • Your Portraits as Fine Art

  • The sneak peek.

    So, cell phone in hand here is the sneak peek of our new studio space.   Obviously there will be quite the transformation after construction is complete… but, we are so excited to have all our clients and friends come visit when we get all moved in!

  • The prelude….

    The word is out – we are moving out of the “NEST” – a studio space we’ve been in for the past three years.  But, don’t be sad…. we are still going to be in Denver in an even more amazing space.  I’ll post images very soon – it’s old turning new with a beautifully…

  • A Storybook Journey.

    A Storybook Journey.

    In 2012 we are taking ourselves on a storybook journey towards our final destination of a 2013 calendar to raise funds to donate to St. Jude. The goal is to take a child’s point of view when we photograph children in some of their favorite childhood stories.  We’ve managed a few of the shoots so…

  • Portraiture:From earliest times the portrait has been considered a means to immortality.

    American Heritage Dictionary: por·trai·ture (pôr’trĭ-chʊr’, pōr’-)  n. The art or practice of making portraits. A portrait. Portraits considered as a group. Oxford Companion to the Photograph: portraiture As the very earliest daguerreotypes required an exposure time of about eight to ten minutes, and no living person could possibly keep still for so long, there were at first…

  • Casting for another story. Calling boys (or tom boys) 3-8 years old

    If you haven’t seen our posts or if you just need an update, we have 12 months of a calendar to fill with some amazing themes.  The 2013 calendar is scheduled to come out later this year and we need to have 12 solid months of images for the calendar.  We are doing this to…