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Documentary Family Filmmaking – Obsessed with Layup

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The hardest part of filmmaking is finding the songs.  When I am in the zone making films I listen to a lot of songs on repeat.  I have a few music memberships, but the majority of my films are scored by songs licensed from Musicbed.  I also go through phases where I get OBSESSED with […]

Louisville Colorado Newborn Photography – Meet Georgia

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I am often hired by families, not when they have their first child, but for the second and then all subsequent babies. However, I photographed both Eliza and Wilder in the hospital within 48 hours of birth.  This is the first family for which I have photographed three newborns. She didn’t have a name when […]

Documenting Parenthood – Family Photography Education

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I am finally in the “slow” season.  I photographed my last family client session on December 26th and my first family client of 2020 on January 4th, so I pretty much worked through the new year.  Don’t get me wrong, I took plenty of time off to spend with my family because James had the […]

I am not crying you’re crying… well yes I’m actually crying

a day in the life

Detroit Family Photographer. So a client made me cry today, on the very last day of the year and decade. 10 years ago I was in severe pain from my gallbladder surgery, popping pain pills like candy because I didn’t know I was pregnant with Chloe.  When I told James I was pregnant I was […]

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