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Erie Colorado Family Photographer – At Home with Bodhi and Lilah

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Erie Colorado Family Photographer.  I have been with Bodhi and Lilah since their first day in the hospital. You can see their Life in the 1st Year films, Bodhi and Lilah, but this is their first annual Parenthood session.  It can be a slight adjustment swapping to once a year from every 4 months. It […]

Reunion Colorado Family Photography – Goodbye Home

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Have you thought about selling your family home? When Stevie contacted me she told me they were selling their current home and wanted to document life before they decluttered and depersonalized the home to put it on the market.  She wanted pictures to really remember the place they brought their babies home from the hospital […]

Lifestyle Family Films – Empty house filled with love.

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Lifestyle Family Films. Close your eyes and imagine selling the home you brought your children to from the hospital. Those walls are filled with memories, so it is only right you give it a proper goodbye, right? Half this film was documented on their last night in this home, when the main living spaces were empty with […]

Denver Family Films | Home is wherever I’m with you

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Denver Family Films. Who remembers last summer when Kayla came to visit and filmed my family? This Spring I traveled across the Atlantic to visit Kayla and her crew, with Chloe in tow.  You can see a few personal images with her in them from May’s 10 on 10. It was exactly what you would […]

Myth of Reality

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I posted some images on Instagram recently and a student commented on how “100% real” the moments and emotion I capture are.  I wrote a response, then I wrote a longer response. and suddenly I am now able to put down the words for a blog post that has been in draft mode for months. […]

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