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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, […]

Jocelynn // photographer love letters

July 14, 2022

Two things struck me when the doctor first placed you in my arm: red, rosy lips and unruly eyebrows. Your face was crumpled up but you didn’t cry. You just looked around, eyes glossed, chin quivering. You’ve always been the bravest child. Last week you whispered to me that you had something important to ask […]

Maddox // photographer love letters

May 8, 2022

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 […]

Kenton // photographer love letters

April 8, 2022

July 2017 // Last night while I was cooking dinner, dad texted me a photo of you holding a fish at the waters edge. The first fish, caught and pulled out of the river by your own arm. My heart jumped and sank with the poor trout at the thought of missing this moment: you […]

KEZA // photographer love letters

March 29, 2022

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

March 28, 2022

When I (Hanna) was young, I had stacks of journals on stacks of journals. I often felt like I didn’t know what to say, as if my words were lost in the woods, until I’d lift my pen. I’d find my voice spilled over the wide-ruled pages in a waterfall of junior-high scrawl. When nothing […]

Photographer Love Letters

March 25, 2022

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

March 25, 2022

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

December 4, 2021

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 […]