Four great kids enjoy the Portrait Garden

The day before school started two weeks ago, this family with four children came to the studio and enjoyed some time in our Portrait Garden.








We photographed many different groupings including all four kids, just the boys, just the girls and each child individually.





Three of these kids visited me about six years ago, so this was a new experience for the youngest, who is now 2 years old. What a sweet boy he is; it was such a pleasure to meet him and to photograph all of these kids.


















After getting the most important group shots and the individual portraits, I spent some extra time with both of these girls. The older girl tried different poses; this one's a winner, I think!!!






This young girl showed me her gymnastic abilities by doing yoga and other various poses on my woodland path's giant rock.










The Portrait Garden is looking great. There is lots of gorgeous foliage and lovely light, especially in the late afternoon and early morning. Our pond has a good crop of frogs this year, as well as our five beautiful gold fish, who just keep getting bigger and bigger.

Just finished a beautiful album

We just delivered a beautiful album to the proud owners of two beautiful Bernese Mountain Dogs. In addition to having some gorgeous giclees framed and hanging in their home, these owners have immortalized their amazing dogs in this exquisite album.


This is the back of the album. Notice how great the photo-front cover looks. It wraps around the album and has a beautiful texture and depth.


Because I photographed these boys a few years ago in the snow, and one of the dogs when he was a puppy about 8 years ago, we were able to include some of those photographs in this collection. The combination of past and present images makes for an even more meaningful album.

Here are "the boys" in the winter of 2004. Completely in their element, they just LOVE the snow!!!





The photo on the right side of this spread is Cody as a pup. What a handsome puppy!





My professional designer helped come up with the layout for these album pages and they really shine. She does great work.

Monarch Caterpillar Search

A recent project had us combing the local fields searching for these distinctive caterpillars that will soon pupate and then turn into Monarch Butterflies. After almost an hour of searching last week, we'd almost given up when we spotted this little fellow munching on some milkweed.




A few days later, we went to the same field again and found two more caterpillars! Just yesterday, we went back and found one more. The milkweed is starting to turn brown now, so I can't imagine there are many more caterpillars out there to be found. Once these guys come out of their chrysalises as butterflies, they'll fly down to Mexico where they'll spend the winter. Amazing insects!

Thanks for sending me images of your framed prints hanging in your home!!!

A super huge thank you to my wonderful clients and Bernese Mountain Dog owners who sent me this photo of their framed giclee wall portrait hanging in their living room. I love seeing where my images have been displayed. This one looks great here. They thought a long time about what size would be best for this location and their thoughtfulness paid off.