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More than a button pusher – Lifestyle Family Photography Workshop

Lifestyle Photography Workshop

It’s really hard to know what portion of the ideas I present during a lifestyle family photography workshop or mentorship the participants will find most helpful, but it is my sincere wish they recognize I am not a *just* button pusher. When I meet my clients for the first time I don’t always know that […]

Exploring the Great Outdoors with film – Lifestyle Family Photography Workshop

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I once had a new client tell me her favorite thing about my portfolio was how I froze motion in my images.  She said she hired me because the images I make are full of emotion and movement, but motion blur was completely absent.  It is super amazing when my own clients, non-photographers, are able […]

10 on 10 – She is EIGHT

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Today is my baby’s 8th birthday so I get to be a bit nostalgic and weepy, right? I spent last weekend teaching documentary family photography, family filmmaking, and the business of photography at the second Family is Everything Workshop.  On Friday night right before our outdoor lifestyle session, I received 5 rolls of film scans […]

Fort Collins Newborn Photographer – Meet Emmett

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Fort Collins Newborn Photographer – Same families at the same hospital are my favorite kind of Fresh 48.  It was a little more than 3 years ago when I witnessed Laynie meeting Asher for the first time.  She beelined straight for her new baby brother and this time was the same.     I can […]

Longmont Maternity Photography – Waiting for Moose

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  Longmont Maternity Photography – Unlike this image from last year, I recently spent a very dark and stormy morning with the Woody family as they finished up the nursery for baby girl #3 in their new house.  (OCF for the win!!!) The same white crib I have photographed the girls in over the last […]

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