Welcome

Welcome to my blogsite! Here you can find my portfolio and business info, as well as my most recent work!

→ On the right, you can check out my most recent blog posts as well as categorized posts. They include everything from nature to pets to portraits.

↑ Up above you can explore the pages related to my portrait work.

I hope you’ll be inspired by my photos to enjoy every moment, and celebrate what makes you who you are!

Project 365

Day6--Car ChallengeDay5--First FlowersDay4--Spring is ComingDay3--VDay 2--SurvivingDay1--Broken

A Glimpse of Spring

As I peered out my kitchen window to check on our dog this afternoon (as she enjoys finding ways to escape our fenced-in yard), I quite literally laughed out loud. Now, it’s not an unusual occurrence for me to see Sabana doing something humorous out there–watching her play in a foot and a half of [...]

Photo Challenge: Shooting Manually 1

In my last post I reflected on 2009 and told you about some of my goals for 2010. One of those goals is a challenge for myself to understand light and exposure more by intentionally shooting a subject each week–in manual mode.

Ahh, the elusive M on my camera dial. I’m diving in head first, and [...]

Pet Portrait

In just four months of owning a dog, I’ve:

-scooped more poop than I’d care to know
-come home to a kitchen floor covered in trash (you can ask my hubby about that “no crate” experiment)
-used more paper towels to clean up piddles on the floor than I would like to admit
-yelled “No!” more than I probably [...]

Flash!

Well, I finally had enough saved up, so I made the plunge and got the Canon 430EXII flash for my camera. Wow…what a difference. I have SO much to learn, but so far, it’s made a world of difference. Some of my resources are:
Digital Photography School
Strobist Blog
And my favorite: Planet Neil Flash Techniques

Here are a [...]

Playing around with the new camera…and Photoshop

So my camera arrived, and I’ve been having some fun with it, though I haven’t had much time since we just moved into our new house. Here’s one shot of our cat Quincy looking out the windows at the cars and creatures that he’d like to chase.