This past Friday, I met up with one of my favorite families to capture this year’s highly coveted Christmas card photo. Last year’s photo was such a success (on the right) that we went on a mission to top it. As it turns out…our mission was nearly impossible…a result of a completely uninterested (nearly) two year old.The following photos make me laugh. However, I guarantee that their mother is cringing right now. Her last words to me before we departed were “please reassure me that there is at least one good shot.”  I guess you all can be the judge of...

Last week, I was with one of my clients (non-photography related) when we started talking about the collection of information. I work in an industry where collecting data from the field is critical to projecting accurate numbers in the office. One of the guys described what that process looks like…and I think it applies to thankfulness. Imagine you’re standing at the top of a hill. You have a basket that you plan to transport/push/roll downhill to others. If there’s one thing we know about gravity, whatever you have at the top of the hill is definitely going to roll...

I’m one of those people that like my holidays one at a time…so as soon as Thanksgiving was behind us, I was ready to decorate our house for the holidays. Kitty Paw wasn’t so excited…at first. Decorating means lots of moving boxes, open and closed doors…and of course, the vacuum cleaner (courtesy of my neat freak husband). However, once everything was in place, she quickly found her favorite spot under the Christmas tree – it’s her favorite. This is just the first of many reasons that I love this time of year. Happy Tuesday! PS: Did you see that...

Welcome to the 47th week of Shoot and Edit: Part 1! Click HERE for all the details and upcoming prompts/themes and past tutorials. This week our theme or prompt is “Thanksgiving” (this is just a suggestion, you can show us any SOOC shot…much like I did this week). You have until Wednesday each week to link your SOOC shot up on Jill’s blog. On Thursday, you can link up your edits with ME after following some of my tips on how to edit your shots (or just post your edit on Thursday and you can pick up my tips for next week).As I mentioned yesterday, I have really enjoyed...