Portraits

We just got another call from a beautiful woman who cancelled her session. She didn’t make it to her goal weight. She just couldn’t face the camera. This is the the track that repeats year after year, the broken record we have memorized. Just a friendly reminder to all the hot mess mama’s out there: We […]

Learn to Love

April 5, 2021

About once per year we get to entertain our secret love of all things vintage. This venue might not be the iconic Alaskan scenery typically found in our images, but what it lacks in mountains or meadows it makes up in colorful nostalgia. The history of our great state is on full display in the […]

Alaska Nostalgia Sessions

April 5, 2021

CHOOSING YOUR COLOR // THE REALLY FUN part of planning your session is choosing your outfits and color scheme, but it can be daunting too! Clients often ask us what color to wear, and are concerned that they might not be great at piecing it together. You might feel the pressure because the truth is, […]

Planning Your Session: COLOR

February 16, 2021

Tonight when we walked the garden I asked her if anyone had been unkind to her about the color of her skin. At first she shook her head no, but then after a moment she told me a group of girls recently had laughed at her and said that when she was old enough to […]

In The Garden – A Walk With My Daughter

January 27, 2021

Our Grandma had mountains of photos. Some hung in the hall on rickety frames. Others filled albums lined up neatly on the bookshelf. I wonder how many childhood hours we spent pouring through the imagery, identifying our own merry faces, digging our heels into roots, reading the tall tales of our lives in pictures? It’s […]

Why We Print

January 27, 2021

Anyone who is familiar with our work knows that we love color. Our work is full of it. And yet, we are always drawn to black and white. We come back to it again and again, like we are coming home. Black and white is an old friend, nostalgia. In fact, much of the work […]