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The Creation of Mother Goose

It wasn’t until I got home from shooting and was 2 hours into my edit that I realized the birds in my picture were geese. That had just not computed before. I kept calling them ducks, until I suddenly realized they were not ducks nor were they swans. With that realization came the excited exclamation [...]

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2012 05 09 Behind the Scenes
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Live Passionately

“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Passion can easily turn into a word that is so often thrown out into the world, uttered by people who seem to have a distinct lack of passion or by people who say it so often, that it loses [...]

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2012 05 05 Essays
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April Contest Winners! Theme: Emotion

Well, let’s get right down to business! The theme for the contest this month was “EMOTION”, and boy did that theme go over well. What I have concluded is that emotion is such a wonderful place to draw inspiration from, and there was no lack of it in this round of images submitted. Our guest [...]

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2012 05 03 Contest Comments (2)

The Journey, not the Result

The other day I was looking back through my Flickr stream with friends and we all sort of laughed about some of my earlier pictures. Some were pretty comical and didn’t reflect my style at all, while others showed promise and provided a light as to where my style might go. Someone asked me, “Why [...]

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2012 05 01 Essays Comments (13)

Moving Forward

  I didn’t shoot this as a professional project, just something lovely that makes my heart flutter. So often I find myself in situations that I wish I could capture as perfectly as I feel them, but of course that is a nearly impossible task because I can never quite relay just how much I [...]

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2012 04 29 Inspiration
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An Accidental Wedding…I Swear!

So, you know how last month I posted that big wedding photography blog (found here!) where I stated emphatically that I would never do more wedding photography…well, it turns out I lied, but not on purpose! My friend Sonalii texted me on a Tuesday and asked if I would come to her rather spur-of-the-moment wedding [...]

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2012 04 29 Behind the Scenes Comments (9)

European Workshop Tour!

I will be taking my “Storytelling & Compositing” workshops international in August with a 4-country tour across Europe. My workshops are for anyone from absolute beginner to the advanced photographer. You will walk away knowing how to seamlessly edit multiple images together, but also with a new sense of how to find inspiration…and most importantly, [...]

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2012 04 24 Workshops Comments (8)

The Process of Shooting 3 Images

I recently had the pleasure of shooting one of the most perfect dresses I can imagine. Now normally I don’t pay huge attention to wardrobe in the sense that I am not shooting fashion. I care very much about the costume my model wears, but I don’t get overly excited about a gorgeous dress or [...]

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2012 04 22 Uncategorized Comments (7)

The Business of Creativity

More and more I have been spending my time thinking about business and all of the things that go into it. That is not to say that I have been spending my time less on creativity. I still go out shooting every other day or so, I think of new concepts constantly, and I feel [...]

2012 04 21 Essays Comments (5)

Ebay Auction: Nikon D80, Lenses, Extras

I never thought this day would come, but I finally feel like I can part with my old camera. I got a new one a year ago and my Nikon D80 has been sitting on a shelf ever since. I’m sad to see it go since I took my very first pictures on there, all [...]

2012 04 09 Behind the Scenes
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