I had a family session this past weekend with a beautiful little girl 2 and a half year old from Jasper’s daycare.  I’ve taken a few pictures of her before at daycare events and she was always a perfect model …

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Location scouting is one of the most frustrating and rewarding aspects of being a photographer.. sometimes it seems so difficult and hopeless to find that perfect spot (who has time to just drive around aimlessly???) but when you do, it’s …

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As if your camera, lenses, insurance, props and everything else weren’t enough, at some point during  your journey towards becoming a professional photographer you are going to also need to invest in studio samples.  The most expensive of these will …

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I thought we’d try something new today!  If it works, I’ll make it a regular feature :)

Back when I was a house blogger I used to read Apartment Therapy religiously and they had open thread posts quite often. The …

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And his name is Talking Carl.

He’s a cute little red monster who repeats everything you say in a high pitched monster voice and he’s absolutely hysterical, at least Jasper thinks so!   He also laughs when you tickle him, …

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The other day I made Jasper a few Dr. Praegers fishsticks which he ate maybe two bites of  (he’s teething hard core right now and his interest in food is at about zero.)  As usual, I ended up eating the …

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Dear Jasper,

Saturday you turned 22 months!  It was also father’s day weekend and I think that we had the best weekend we’ve ever had together.. Saturday we went to your pop-pop’s family picnic in Pennsylvania, they have it every …

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Yes, that would be MY crazy kid…

Yesterday we had to run to BRU to get diapers. Of course, $84 later I had several other unnecessary items in my cart including what I thought was going to be a HUGE …

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Or the “cowboy” bed as we like to call it.. Mrs. Brown asked what it looked like so I took a snapshot of Jasper brushing his teeth.   He really likes to cuddle and lay on it, just not SLEEP on …

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It was an action packed weekend.. and it all started Saturday morning with a newborn shoot for my friend Janaki’s baby Bodhi.. beautiful baby Bodhi. Beautiful bright eyed and bushy tailed Bodhi who would NOT fall asleep for us!

He …

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