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The pressure of a selfie

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Cameras are fancy yo!  Cell phones have amazing cameras now.  DSLRs have internal timers and apps that can be triggered from your cell phone.  Don’t even get me started on the Mirrorless Revolution.  Nearly everyone has a camera at their fingertips and absolutely NO excuse for not being IN the pictures. So let’s talk about […]

Top 18 in 2018

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I took Chloe on her first trip across the Atlantic, we visited Disneyland (again), and I shot a lot of film. Here are my top 18 personal images for 2018 and I am really looking forward to 2019. Your Narrative blog will appear here, click preview to see it live.For any issues click here

PSA: Hire a photographer

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Think of this as a follow-up to THIS blog post. I really like being in photos.  I don’t like how my husband takes the most unflattering angles.  I don’t like how he doesn’t just CLICK CLICK CLICK when Chloe and I are interacting naturally.  But most of all, I HATE how he can’t manage to […]

10 on 10 – November 2018

10 on 10

I haven’t taken a single personal image on a camera other than my iPhone in the last month.  Yes, I don’t need you to tell me how sad that is.  So I decided to actually share some of those rather than skip this month’s 10 on 10.  Hopefully this will shame me into picking up […]

10 on 10 – Bring Back Summer

10 on 10

Last month while we were at California Adventure we saw Frozen Live at the Hyperion.  I can’t stop thinking about summer now, singing those songs… I really thought Frozen was out of my head forever.  But I really do miss summer, particularly today when it was so cold I needed gloves. Follow our circle around […]

Hiring a professional photographer – I am not IN enough photos

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Hiring a professional photographer is one of the most important things a photographer can do. And just to be clear I don’t mean trading with another photographer, I mean hiring someone and paying them actual money in the same way I ask my own clients to. It gives you a true client perspective, which is just a […]

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