January 27, 2021

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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 […]

GIDEON // photographer love letters

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Sometimes you just need to book the dang girl’s trip. The laugh-till-you-pee, talk-till-you-cry, shop-till-you-drop, dance-party-in-the-car kind of thing. So this month we did. We had a blast tromping around Joshua Tree and taking a break from the regular grind of life. It wasn’t a work trip, but I managed to talk everyone into looking cute […]

Joshua Tree

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Protected: Boudoir Bash 2022

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Winter Sessions

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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 […]

Heidi’s 2021 Family Favorites

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In 2021 we have 10 kids between us that range from three to eighteen. We are on year 11 of Relic. Life is crazy. Work is crazy. Any given day Heidi is locking herself in the bathroom to take notes on your session, keeping a cool, professional demeanor while her 3 year old is chucking […]

2021

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Home is Where the Heart is

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It is probably fair to say that 95% of our photography takes place outside. We live in Alaska, after all. She is the most beautiful backdrop; she is brilliant and wondrous and awe-inspiring. But even so, there is something pretty magical that happens when we step back from her every once in awhile and draw […]

Dear Sister

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Your daughter just crawled up on my lap and laid her head on the beat of my heart. ‘Auntie Hanna, do you have a baby sister like me,’ she asks? ‘Your mommy is my baby sister,’ I tell her. ‘I was your age when she was born.’ Her big blue eyes spark and she looks […]

You have a bad rep. We have heard a million times that you are the problem with family photos: the stick-in-the-mud, the photo grinch who has to be bribed or forced against his will to don a starched shirt and bright smile. “I had to beg him for this session…” “He will be the most […]

dear alaska dad

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