We are back from an amazing trip with Sony at Photo Plus Expo. Brian posted some fun images on Saturday from the Sony World Photography Awards. One of my favorite highlights was when my publicist from Random House and Sony met and started forming what they are calling “Team Me Ra” :). Those two women […]

Yeah! The blog is back up and working again. Thanks for shooting us emails or pinging us on Facebook and letting us know things weren’t working right! This weekend I had a wonderful reminder in how much joy the unexpected image can bring. It started with flying to a place I’ve never been, Charlottesville, Virginia. […]

We had our Washington DC CONFIDENCE Photography Wkshp this last weekend. It was awesome! All twenty women showed up with a hunger to improve their photography skills, and it was a honor to work with them. Before the workshop even started these women were encouraging each other via emails. I can’t wait to see what […]

Before today’s photo exercise in setting, I’d like to tell you that the stories Brian and I share about our past, raising the kids, homeschooling, travel, building a brand–it all comes from a place that I call “Impossible Hope”. We have both faced so many impossible mountains to climb, and yet here we are in […]

Today’s talk with PDN and Sony was so much fun! Thanks for joining us! I wish we had more time!! Wish we had a weekend together! For those of you who listened in and want to learn more about taking Self Portraits, here are two blog posts to enjoy! One is my own exercise in […]

I’d like to share some tips and an 8 step exercise for shooting in low light using a beautiful wedding we shot in NY at the Sagamore. Set the Scene… There were two images I thought you might enjoy talking about. Both images were taken in extremely low lighting. Shades were drawn to the one- […]