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One of my (Hanna) goals this season has been to make sure to carve out enough time to photograph my own family. The Relic schedule is NUTS in the summer and with a 9 person family…there is a lot going on. Sometimes in the height of busy season we all get a little lost in […]

About 16 years ago, a beautiful girl was born. My humongous family ordered pizzas and gathered at hospital visitors room and waited for Jocey to make her grand debut. It took awhile! Long enough for me to write a letter… May 20, 2006 Dear Little Flower, Dear Jocelynn Rose,  Three months ago I was here, […]

The children start howling at the sky, fall over each other, rush out of the river when it comes. Thunder cracks like a whip above and almost instantly clouds gather over us in judgement. The ping and sizzle of cold rain puts out the fire and we fill our arms with camp chairs, towels, and […]

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 […]

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 […]