Monthly Archives: January 2010

Capture It Now | Oakton Portrait Photography

Right before Christmas, I got a call from a mom I know.  “Hey,” she says, “my kids are getting braces in the next month or so, can you do a shoot with them before the braces go on?  I don’t want to forget this.  The way they are now.”  And sure, she takes pictures of...

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Siblings and Cousins | Oakton Family Photographer

Over the Christmas holiday, I was lucky to spend a morning with four great kids.  We went hiking.  Through snow, sleet, wind, mud, muck, yuck, the photographer just keeps on trudging…. Two of the kids are local to my area, and the other two girls are cousins, visiting from Atlanta.  It was amazing to me...

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You can take the girl out of the country….

but you can’t take the country out of the girl. I grew up in the country.  And spent most of my time trying to figure out how to get out of the country.  I wanted to be anywhere but there in the country. And now, after spending years living in various cities and suburbs, from...

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Sisters | Oakton Family Photography

Three girls.  I have my three (and a boy).  Let me tell you, three girls close in age are a handful.  You hope that when they got older they are as close emotionally as they are in age!  As part of doing a generational photoshoot with grandparents and their children and their grandchildren, I had...

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Life and Time.

At the beginning of the school year, in September, I attended a school program for the handing out of bus patrol belts.  It was in the gymnasium.  I sat next to a grandfather, the father of a close friend of mine.  He’s the grandfather to one of my oldest daughter’s best friends.  We chatted.  He...

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playing with my iPhone. again.

so, my iPhone.  i love it.  i always have it with me, and as a result, i always have everything with me.  what could be better? giving the kids a bath.  after they’re clean, i iPhone while they play.  yes, i’m making “iPhone” a verb.  it should be. without it, i wouldn’t have these. that...

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year in review | iPhone cache

have you ever wanted to see your year in review?  they say in times of great stress, facing life and death, you will see your life flash before you. perhaps. OR, you can get a new computer at the end of the year and finally get around at the start of the new year to...

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