Category Archives: Faces

Test shot

I’m working on a project with one of my muses. Here is a test shot I did tonight.

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Fern and Lulu

I love 8-year-old girls. Love, love, love them. They have the world ahead of them, they’re fearless, not yet making themselves small in order to make boys feel big.

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Dreamy new lens

I tried out a new lens yesterday, the Nikkor 135mm f2. I heard it was a great portrait lens and what I love most of all are portraits. I gasped as I looked through the lens and locked focus. It was like a dream. The depth of field was so shallow and everything looked mysterious....

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Hometown Pasadena blog – Check it out!

One of my photographs from Locks of Love was featured on the Hometown Pasadena blog. http://hometown-pasadena.com/good-deeds/when-hair-is-more-than-hair This blog is a great resource for happenings in the Pasadena, Altadena, Monrovia, Alhambra and Sierra Madre area. It’s updated frequently – sometimes five times a day! – and has all the inside info on places to eat and...

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Oh, Mama, just look at me one minute as though you really saw me

Motherhood is complicated. It’s hard to stand back and appreciate what I’ve become because I am it. My life was tossed up in the air and came down differently. First-time motherhood was easy for me, like coasting downhill on a bike, laughing and legs outstretched. I stayed home happily, took to nursing like I had...

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