a winter engagement.

Before Christmas I met up with Melissa and Scott for their "winter wonderland shoot" as I'm calling it. There was ice-skating, hiking, Christmas lights, climbing trees, laughing, snow... It really was a blast...although, me on ice-skates with camera equipment = not good. Enjoy the images! Melissa and Scott - see you guys in the spring! Thanks for being so open to just play and have some fun! : )

the gift of giving.

hello. so, it's been a while (BLOGGER FAIL). I promise to work on that.

this time of year I get all nostalgic. It's a funny thing, "giving", it's both selfless and selfish. Either way it's fun.

I recently met and photographed 7 families that may have had a hit of bad luck but surely didn't show any sight of strain. the kids, the parents, they all showed so much love towards each other and to me. It's quite refreshing. You know that cliche statement "what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger"...well many times in life, both in my own and others, it's proven true. I find people so interesting and sometimes inspiring. I love what I do!

My gifts to the lovely families. once upon a time I did a bit of graphic design work and one of my favorite things was to create cards, invitations, silly suess-like rhymes so it was fun to bust out a tiny piece of the card stuff again.