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Body story session on black and white film on a cold, sunny spring day.

Spring moments from a spring a few years back.

It feels good to look at past work as I get excited for all that is to come.

If you're in Maryland, Virginia or DC and you want to talk about getting a session on the books, send me a dm and we can st

Making branding photos with @eliza.lois was a gosh damn delight.

I hope I'm never asked to only photograph one thing for the rest of my career. But if I *was* it might be maternity sessions.

I love bodies. I love mothers. I love these sessions that are a celebration of both.

If you're pregnant and in the Washing

Today I will cut up apples and clean out the sink and do reading lessons and write a newsletter and feed my sourdough starter named Jen because everyone said "Yeast Affection" was too gross a name.

I'll call for "five minute family pi

The work of mothering--even with all the beauty and love and joy-- is still work.

It keeps our hands and laps and hearts and days full, while also often leaving us feeling a little lonely.

We want to be seen- we want our work to be valued, appreci

I like a lot of different types of parties but picnic parties definitely rank in the top three.

And I'm pretty excited that I really upped my picnic game for the season with the new @thegoldiemom bag. I'm spending way too much time dreaming about al

I like that I get to photograph all sorts of families. I like that I get to see how different ones make a life, how they craft a day.

But there's also a lot of joy when I get to photos family a lot like my own- so many kids, so many ages. I'm at hom

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