February in SoCal

Winter in Paradise

January 2017

Favorite photos of the month

Strawberry Banke

When I lived in New Hampshire, one of my favorite places to visit was Portsmouth. It's a beautiful, historic, coastal city with all sorts of fun shops, delicious restaurants, and gorgeous buildings. One of the best spots to visit is Strawberry Banke a museum which tells the story of four centuries of New England history. The …

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Soaking up the Sun in SoCal

It's been a busy few weeks here in San Diego County: James has been working non-stop, getting his music out on the streets and beaches, and working on a new project: Perfect Strangers, a music group based out of Carlsbad covering tunes from the '80s and '90s. I had the pleasure of doing a photo shoot …

June Photo Challenge

I'm almost done participating in my first photo challenge. It's been really fun, though at times more challenging that I would have thought, to take a new picture each day based on a prompt. Since I enjoyed it so much, I've decided to launch my own challenge, and I'd love for you all to be …

Jacob is Born: 6/16/2011

In anticipation of baby number two arriving in the next week or so, I've been showing my son pictures of himself at birth so he has a vague idea of what to expect when his sister arrives. Since I hadn't set up the blog at that time, they haven't appeared here, so in honor of …

The Arts of Editing

When I talk about editing in the world of photography, there are three areas this includes: initial photography, culling the images taken, and Photoshop type editing. I don't do a lot of image editing after the fact. I love Picasa (my preferred photo editor) but I tend to use it for cropping, basic lighting and …

Donna & Stu – October 18, 2014

Kayla & Jim – September 14, 2013

Ashley + Nick = Baby!