I know you, reader, may not celebrate Christmas. But here at my house, we do celebrate, and so I do wish you a very Merry Christmas! (And 6th day of Hanukkah and 3rd day after the Solstice.) We had a wonderful Christmas here. My 2.5 year old daughter is finally old enough to have anticipated […]
If you follow my blog at all, you know that my greatest passion in photography is documenting “real life” — preferably in pictures that look beautiful, but still “tell it like it is” to some degree. During a rainy day this week, I decided to use the gorgeous (if still a little dark) light from […]
Welcome to another edition of “How to Survive Photographing Your Own Kids.” It has to be said: I really don’t enjoy the idea of going to see Santa in a mall. I’m not anti-consumerism, per se, but the way the kids are rushed through just doesn’t seem quite in keeping with the Christmas spirit. On […]
More accurately, this post could be called “preschooler’s photographing me photographing them taking photos. “ Or, as one child eloquently summed it up, as he prepared to take a picture of me taking a picture of him: “It’s camera wars!” I had this amazing idea earlier in the school year to bring in a couple […]
For this edition of Friday’s for Family, I present to you another behind-the-scenes look at trying to get a picture of my own kids together. It is sometimes said that what separates professional photographers from amateurs is the willingness to take enough pictures to make sure you have “the one”. This is the picture I […]