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Wanna write love letters to summer together?

Reach out in any/all the ways.

Booking sessions in the DMV, the Bay Area, Santa Cruz and New England.

Summer always feels like living in a memory.

It's the long light and the air thick with humidity and the wet towels hanging on porch rails and the smell of charcoal and the threat of thunderstorms.

And it's sandy bed sheets and goggles lost and the

Going to make my kids make pictures in the ocean today because it's a top five activity for me.

The other top four:
Swimming in pretty much any body of water.
Dinner
Making pictures not in the ocean
Parties- as host or guest. I like em all.

Where a

Family dinner isn't my *whole* personality but....

Photos by @marybell.photo

Kind of the vibe for the next hundred days or so.

I sent in a disposable underwater camera that I've been shooting on for years apparently, and it's a little time capsule of joy.

Bits and pieces from a life well lived.

I was driving home from a session today thinking about how every chance I get to see another life--every time I get to witness how people make a home, how they stoke love and connection- how they shape a day--

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