It’s a gloriously hot Sunday afternoon, and as I’m sitting here enjoying the french pressed coffee made by Clinton, I’m reflecting on the week that’s just passed me. I discovered that my phobia of clusters is a real condition (it’s called “trypophobia” to all you doubters, and I even found a Facebook group with 77...
Category Archives: children, kids photography
Tiny Teeny Tiny [Canberra Children Photographer]
Tiny is the youngest of four boys. He likes to say, “Nooo-uh!” a lot. His blond loose curls are ridiculously adorable. And he belongs to my friend Natalie, a fabulous newborn photographer here in Canberra. As a photographer’s son, Tiny has perfected the art of “smile-for-the-camera-so-mom-leaves-me-alone” – and Nat warned me that it would be...
Awe. [Canberra Family Photographer]
My sister and I were raised in a small, beat up duplex, on the grungiest of grungy streets, just outside of Boston, Massachusetts. The stairs inside the house were creaky (some were even missing). The house itself made noise. Whenever the shower was running, water would trickle from the upstairs bathroom, through the hole in...
A Birthday Boy [Canberra Family Photographer]
I absolutely love birthdays. I’m certain my parents always secretly wished for a daughter who would eventually outgrow child-like obsessions (it’s lucky, then, that they have my big sister who actually acts her age). “I’m sure she’ll get over this stationary craze,” my dad would say to my mom. “Surely she won’t want a toy...
What You’re Born With… [Canberra Family Photography]
I’m a firm believer in accepting that people are born with certain talents. I admit I haven’t always been this wise, mind you. It’s something that I’ve learned to believe after decades and decades of trying to convince my family that I was musically gifted. “No trust me, it’s your ears that are tone deaf,...