Hello and welcome to my photoblog. I am delighted to have you here! This blog serves as a way of sharing my most recent photo sessions with clients and their family and friends, and is also the first place to hear recent announcements about the studio as well as special blog-reader only discounts.
I am a primarily natural light portrait photographer based out of Madison, Wisconsin. My focus is on babies, children and families, although I also love to shoot a limited number of weddings per year. My portrait sessions take place entirely on location -- either at your home or at another location around Madison. I love to explore new places, so I'm very open to your suggestions. And of course, I have some favorite spots that I'm always ready to explore again as well.
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My approach toward photography is deceptively simple: catch real moments of your children really being themselves. Silly giggles, sweet kisses from mommy, tickles from a big sister, laughing while watching doggie run through the park... These are the moments that make up real life. These are the moments from childhood that pass by all too fast. And these moments, to me, are where the real beauty of childhood resides. The same philosophy governs my approach to wedding photography.
My style is largely photojournalistic and non-obtrusive, while at the same time I am always working to create beautiful and lasting memories of life as it unfolds. The most common words used to describe my photographs are the ones I have chosen as the tagline for my studio: Modern. Fun. Real. Life. People often comment that my photographs have a sense of warmth and emotion to them -- which I consider the highest compliment possible.
Wishing you a very joyous holiday season and a wonderful new year. So that I can devote time to my family, the studio will be closed through January 4. I will answer your e-mails and phone calls when I return. Merry Christmas!
ps. the image above was on the front of our Christmas card this year....
What a year. I opened the studio, went to a fantastic photo workshop, did a bit of traveling, and added a new member to my family! In addition to all of this, I also had the great pleasure of photographing so many beautiful families, babies, children, and pets, as well as a number of absolutely...
I have been absent from the blog for quite a while, but I have a reasonably good excuse. We welcomed the newest member of our family, a beautiful little baby boy, last Thursday. I am so happy that he didn’t arrive today in the middle of all the snow!
On a business related note, I’ll be...
So very much to be thankful for this year. I am thankful for my health, and that of my family. I am thankful for the love of my husband and my little boy, as well as all my other family members and friends. I am thankful that we will very soon have another member of...
I tell just about every new parent who comes to me for newborn photos the same thing: they are unpredictable. It makes sense if you think about it. Here are these tiny new little people, who have just spent the last 9 months of their very new lives in the security of their mom’s warm,...
This is another one of my Baby Sprout clients. I photographed her newborn session, and then I was lucky enough to see her three more times in her first year. She’s a one year old and not a baby anymore, and this was the last session of the four. It’s always a little bittersweet for...
As of a couple of weeks ago, I am completely booked for 2009. With my second child due in December, I am taking on a reduced schedule in early 2010 (I will be photographing current Baby Sprout and past clients only) but will be back to my normal schedule starting in April 2010. If you...
This maternity session took place on one of the most gorgeous fall evenings we’ve had this year. Right around sunset is such a wonderful time for a photo session, and it’s not a time of day that I actually get to shoot very often unless it’s a maternity, engagement or wedding session (the so-called “witching...
I first photographed the H family last summer. Back then, little O was their only child. This year, they ventured down to Madison from Milwaukee (thank you for that!) and I was lucky enough to photograph not only Mr. O but also his new little sister, Miss N. How things change in a year! One...
This past weekend was fantastic. Finally good weather, sunshine, and a chance to get out and do some of those fall activities that have been sitting on the backburner as we waited out the gloomy skies and rain (which I hear might be returning again tomorrow). Saturday the boys and I went to the Dane...
