Monthly Archives: November 2009

jordan & matt | engaged

Back in August, Jordan left a comment on the blog post I wrote about her nephews. She said, “When Matt proposes… expect a phone call!” I ran into her a few weeks later, and we had a fun conversation about weddings and photography. I got the feeling they would be engaged soon, but I don’t think anyone thought it...

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earthborn pottery

I first saw a piece of Earthborn pottery a few years ago when my friend Katie brought it as a hostess gift to a party I was attending. It became an instant hit among my group of friends, and we scrambled to get our hands on more. The artist and entrepreneur behind Earthborn Studios, Tena...

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family portraits for hillary

Hillary is a Birmingham wedding photographer who started her business about the same time as me. As random as it is, we were introduced through Allen. They had a business relationship that he fostered into a great friendship between Hillary and me. We have done lots of shoots together over the last year, but when...

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family photography with baby d

This time last year I was taking my first maternity session for our friends Gracie and John. Their son Douglas – or “Baby D” as my husband calls him – was born in December. Oh my how things have changed in a year! Douglas has grown so much and has the cutest little toothy grin. We started the...

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spit happens

Although I take pictures of my nephew all the time, we’ve never really had an “official” photo shoot of the whole family. In early September my sister-in-law Jacquelyn asked me to hold a date for their Christmas photos, and Sunday was the day we chose. I arrived a few minutes early and saw them pulling...

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