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Things I Really Like: Encaustic Paint + Wedding Photographs

Some of you might wonder where I’ve been, and the answer—at least in part—is that I’ve been locked up in my studio cooking up new things. (I’ve also been fixing my computer, hence the blog-neglect,...

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Dreaming of a Trend: Ice Pops

Today is the first really warm day we’ve had in a while.  And I’m celebrating (well, in just a minute here) with a Popshop ice pop break in my back yard.  Last summer’s weddings were hot! Hot, hot.  I...

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What Wedding Photography Has In Common With Taking Photographs on Your Cell...

What I have come to love most* about taking photographs on my various cell phones is its (my) almost unconscious reaction to a moment or a scene. Point and shoot (nearly without thinking)! These are...

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Things I Like: Peonies

I am ready for summer. I am.  But I do not think I am ready for peony season to be over just quite yet. photo: Gia Canali; bouquet: GD Designers

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Things I Like: Sparkle

Even the hardcore California naturalist in me loves a little glitter every now and then. Don’t you? photo: Gia Canali

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Notes Toward Slow (Wedding) Photography

This year, perhaps even more than in years past, and despite practically daily notices of film-discontinuations, I am being commissioned to do my slowest work: photo sessions driven largely or...

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Wedding Myths Debunked:: Myth #1: The Bride Should Get Ready Last So She’s...

I don’t know how this particular one is so pervasive.  I was just talking about this with one of my clients:  when I got married, all I wanted to do was get ready so I could get on with the day and...

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Album Design Know-How: Get in The Folks You Love Without Posed Group Photos

Most of us (brides, grooms, photographers) don’t exactly love posed group photos. I do think they are necessary, a few images in the larger body of wedding photographs, a part of family history, to be...

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