SESSION IDEAS

My models are my daughters. Both of my girls are adopted, Sarah adopted domestically and Reagan is from China. While waiting for my daughters, I started an adoption blog and that is where my love of photography began. I started my blog with a Kodak...

Inspiration: When I was growing up, we often traveled down to Moab, Utah to help my grandparents with their peach farm. We spent spring afternoons walking the rows of orchard trees, the smell of fresh peaches floating in the air. I loved spending time there....

Inspiration: My soul inspiration is always the same. My clients. These four beautiful faces. I had met Dad on a commercial assignment I had for a local high tech company. He asked me if I photographed families.That was a big YES! He told me how...

Inspiration: The inspiration for this session was definitely the location. This is right outside a park that is under construction so they've let the grasses grow long and wild. There's actually orange fencing around the entire perimeter of the park that I've either worked around...

Inspiration: My inspiration was this color palette. We had gorgeous mustard fields in bloom and I knew they would be the perfect element to start with. Getting a farmer to agree to let me bring a bed into his field was a different story. I...

Lets face it.  Sometimes thinking up a new and creative way to photograph little boys can be difficult. It seems to me that all of those uber adorable, visually pleasing props and extras always seem destined for those delicious girlie sessions that we all know and...

Inspiration: My clients wanted to have some casual maternity photos as a memory so we had the session at their home. Mom is also a very energetic person who still runs even during pregnancy and they both love the countryside so much. They brought us...

Our first attempt at this senior session we got rained out, so we were thrilled when the second attempt ended with loads of gorgeous sunshine. This senior wanted to incorporate a mix of old and new. We started the session with an old type writer...

Inspiration: Alexander and Olga are originally from Moscow, Russia so I thought a session on the beach was appropriate to celebrate this unique time in their lives. In a few years, when they take a look to these images with their daughter, I want for...

Inspiration: I was inspired by the warm tones in Mom's and Dad's older house and the sense of intimacy of this new family. They were both smitten with their first child and it showed in their interactions with each other and with him. ...