Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

I would like to wish all my clients a Merry Christmas and a very prosperous New Year! Thank you so much for allowing me to capture those beautiful children of yours this year. Thank you for trusting me to capture their spirit and personality forever in a portrait.

After an extremely busy Fall, it is time for a break! We will be "closed" from Friday December 22 until January 2nd. During this time I will fill orders that have already been placed, print up the missing prints a few of you had, and overhaul my portfolio with all the stunning images from this year.

As always if you have a question, please email or call me! I may not get to it as quickly as I have, but they will be answered.

Just for you, S.

I am sure everyone knows how it is. You have dreams for your photo session, getting that perfect photo of your child. But, then, those dreams are shattered when you go through the session. Why? Because you feel like everything did not go well at all. You wonder if I even got anything. Most of the time I do, and I love surprising the families with their session galleries. I love hearing how much you love the images, how moved you were by what I have captured, and how I managed to get an image of your child and those expressions you see daily.

Well, S, here is one of the images I captured this past weekend. M is a wonderful little girl, and I hope this is the smile you were wanting.



This one is for the rest of you. I think her Mom will agree, this is the true M. I love her so much, she is just a joy to be around.

Taking a moment to catch a breath

Pausing a moment in the midst of proofing my final two sessions of the year. Thanks to all who have made 2006 a wonderful year for my business. I am truly appreciative of the ability to do something I truly love while still staying true to who I am. As all my clients know, I am a Mom. But photography feeds my creative soul, it gives me new challenges, and lets me explore areas that are just not found in a young child's life. At the same time I am able to capture so many images of my own children, in ways that truly show who they are. Yes, that means I have photos where I have scrapes, missing teeth, chapped lips, and dirty mouths. I have photos with mis-matched clothing, with grass stains on the knees, and some are even stained with mud, paint, or spaghetti-o sauce.

I hope, that through my photography, you as a parent have been able to see both the angelic looking child you fleetingly see and the real child you see on a daily basis. In preparing for 2007, I am sifting through all the images from this year to update my website. I am amazed at all the people I have met and gotten to know this year. My hope is that I continue to see all of you in the future. Each of you hold a special place in my heart. Each of your children are wonderful. Thanks so much for trusting me with their portraits, for trusting me to capture them, their personalities, and their spirits!

Here are a few from recent sessions (well in the past month). Enjoy!











I'll get others on the blog soon!