This is an older picture of Patrick dancing with his mother at his wedding last year. The room we were in was not the most photogenic, thus demanding extra creativity in framing.

I don’t usually like posting photos of clients until they have seen them, so now that Mike and Melody have their photos, I am going to blog them. Of course, if you know Mike, and are friends with him on Facebook, you’ll probably get to see them all pretty soon. Here is their first dance [...]

One of my favorite shots from a wedding I was second-shooter for. Not much to say about this one except how much I love his little “I (heart) Jesus” button. Old people are so cute. This was shot in a gymnasium with a really really high cream-colored ceiling. I bounced my little battery-powered SB-28 strobe [...]

I gave Heather a hard time about going to great lengths to decorate a cake for Zoe’s first birthday. I can imagine a baby would think of it as an edible punching bag, but Heather treated it like a wedding cake. It really was beautiful.

Every time I would say something about it, Heather would respond, “It’s for me” and I would assume she meant that she was putting work into it because she wanted something to do, and perhaps that was the truth, but I realized something else…

This is a photo of my beautiful wife Heather holding our daughter Zoyenka a few hours after she was born exactly one year-ago, today. First birthdays are less about the child, and more about the mother. And, about everyone’s reaction to the baby digging into the cake.