Life is, above all else, a gift. Each breath, each ray of sunshine, each gust of wind, each snowflake, each step, each open door, each connection; all gifts. When life gets overwhelming (good or bad makes no difference) I try to hold onto this perspective and carry...
Finding signs, little messages like this heart-shaped bread clasp are affirmations: ...
I have long wanted to shoot candy canes like this. I've been so inspired by the photos and sentiments shared by the participants in my recent classes...
As I go to sleep tonight, after a late evening of creative work, I am reminded of how fare I've come over the last year and how very close some of my far off dreams actually are to coming true. Sometimes I forget to slow down...
It's been far too long since I've been able to post. Truth is, I've been spending much of my time learning. Learning the ins and outs of being "connected" in a whole new way. Learning to shoot and edit images with a new camera, phone, camera phone. Learning what...
I was recently asked to share some of my thoughts on creativity over at BlogHer's latest Own Your Own Beauty blog. The article was published over the holidays and with so much activity happening, I'm afraid it wasn't given the due attention that it deserved. In other words, I hope...
#Reverb10, day 11: What are 11 things your life doesn't need in 2011? There's a few more lines to the prompt but I can't get past this very first part. Truth is, I literally haven't stopped thinking about this question from author Sam Davidson (who is my new-found...
A love letter to the communities that made my 2010 amazing. Shutter Sisters, Where would I be without you? Your love, support, passion and vision has shaped not only who I am as a photographer but who I am as a human being. ...
2009 was a year of big moments. 2010 has been the year of the transformation that's followed; a daily practice of a new way of being. More gratitude, more joy, more wonder, more calm, more contentment, and more clarity. With all that has come a lot of letting go....
"Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be." — Walt Whitman Today's Reverb prompt from Ali Edwards had me musing all day. I know exactly when I feel most...