Tanya contacted us because she wanted a photography session to celebrate her huge accomplishment of graduating from college! She sent us some photos of her outfits beforehand, and we just knew she would be extra in all the best ways possible. (Heck, yes, bring a fur trench and red hat!) We brought along a few […]

WRITTEN FOR MY GIDEON, ON HIS 16TH BIRTHDAY I was twenty-three. It was June and I had all the doors and windows open to the summer. I took the test, flipped it over, and walked outside to pick a few wild flowers for the bathroom vase. I didn’t even make it to the porch before […]

We live in a crazy, frozen wasteland more than half of the year and have some of the harshest climates to contend with. Just a month ago we were hunkering down from the January storm that boasted 120 mph gusts of bitter wind. Before that, a couple feet of snow. And before that? -20 degrees! […]

The shoemaker’s children have no shoes, the mechanic’s car is leaking oil, and the photographer never takes photos….of their own family! Hanna and I have both experienced the truth of these statements. When you spend so many hours behind the camera, sometimes the last thing you feel like doing is hauling around expensive equipment and […]