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Wedding portraits featuring cats both willing and unwilling to participate.

The busyness is in full swing- trying to ride the waves because it won't be this way for long.

I can feel the (relative) quiet and the stillness that will be here soon enough.

Headed to DC to meet this baby now that he's earthside.

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Washington DC maternity photographer

Different family photos for different families.

I think it's safe to say people don't hire me for the classic "Christmas Card Photo" but that doesn't mean we won't make a picture you can send to all the people you love featuring your neare

Three years changes some things but not all the things.

The boardgames that get a little feisty and the dance parties you worry they'll grow out of. The water ballon fights and the painted nails. The cuddles on the couch and swinging in the backyard.

Each piece can feel ordinary on its own. But you add

Lord knows I got enough baby/ breastfeeding years in AND I absolutely adore having teenagers (and now a twenty-something too), but sometimes I wish I could go back there for just a minute or two.

Time being linear kind of blows.

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Photos from a

Today in the first HOW TOO class I'll start as I always do-- talking about bodies.

If we're taking pictures of people, it's bodies that are in the frame and we need to be in loving (albeit often complicated) relationship with our own bodies before w

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