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maternity | newborn | life | family

remember that time? you’re in that first year of marriage. you’ve bought your first house. you’re pregnant. it’s just the two of you, forming your own little cocoon. and then life emerges. and you see things greater than you’ve ever seen. and you feel things greater than you’ve ever felt. and it is the closest...

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moments | if you give a kid a camera…

my kids have had cameras almost since they were old enough to hold one. first, there were the throw-aways. then, the fisher-price kid cameras. then, the fisher price digital kid cameras. and now, the girls all have nice point-and-shoots. it is for this reason that they are NEVER allowed to touch my D300. until this...

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weekends | summer in virginia

sometimes, i have nothing to say. we had a great weekend, and here are some of my 500 photographs that i took. this incredible view is from the home of a dear friend of mine. yep, that is the view. it’s hard to spend a whole weekend here hanging out at the pool. yep, this...

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there’s a new kid in town | oakton pet photography

this is our dog. fergus. remember him? he likes to hang outside with the kids. and sniff. but, guess what? his life is about to change… that’s right, there’s a new kid in town. he’s ace. the alpha dog. dun, dun, dun, dun  { insert sound effects here }. our whole family, and our neighbor’s...

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what a difference a week makes | fredericksburg newborn photography

everything was last minute. maternity shoot on a whim. thought i had three weeks still. baby G thought otherwise. so, we had our maternity shoot, and 6 days later, wendy was holding her new baby girl. and what was on the inside, was now on the outside. what a difference a week makes. joe, a...

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anticipation | fredericksburg maternity photographer

fourteen years ago, i traveled to fredericksburg, virginia. fairview beach, to be exact. there, i met my future husband’s family. at grannie and pa’s place. we took the boat out. we swam in the potomac. we ate tons and tons of crabs. we drank cold lite beers. we laughed at old stories, told again and...

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life | family | home

there is a spot in our backyard at the base of our back steps where the ground dips and forms an indentation. a result of tearing down a house and building a new one. settlement. we have filled it, and it sinks down again. into the same size. and now i have found, it is...

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