…. I’m a If there is a silver lining to the deployments military families endure, it’s the strange way it strengthens a marriage.  “Absence makes the heart grow fonder,” right?  Right.  Oftentimes we take our partners for granted, but when they’re gone for 7 months we miss them, we miss their socks on the floor, […]

. . One of the best things about photographing homecomings is getting a glimpse back in time, back to young love and it’s passion and honesty.  Sometimes I forget about those long-gone days of crazy, unabated love.  Photographing reunions of young couples who have spent hundreds of days apart is a sobering reminder of just […]

. I met these sweet little girls at the park with their mom for a mini session and I was really excited about the bright colors mom had picked out since clearly I love color 🙂 I’ll admit Miss D and Miss C were not too fond of my picture-taking at the start, but with some […]

. . Military families are accustomed to saying good-bye.  Sometimes it’s for a few days, sometimes a few weeks, sometimes several months and even longer.  It’s a tough pill to swallow– getting used to spending so much time apart from each other.  But it’s reality and somehow these families manage to survive day-to-day with only […]

. . Every day I get at least one e-mail from a military spouse asking me to photograph a homecoming.  Now more than ever, it seems like people want to preserve these events just as they would a wedding, the birth of a child, or other once-in-a-lifetime moment.  And I absolutely love it.  I love that people […]