What’s better than a surprise best friend photo session on your birthday? Who doesn’t love surprises on their birthday? I know I do! And that is just what Carla received from her eight best friends as she celebrated a wonderful milestone birthday! I arrived at Carla’s home located right across from the world famous Cedar […]

COME ALONG on a SURPRISE PROPOSAL! Anyone who believes that photographers “just” take pictures is wrong! I’m here to tell you that we wear many hats, from planning, organizing, scouting, encouraging, posing, building confidence, editing, and to today’s blog, helping to plan surprise proposals! When Nathan contacted me to help document his proposal to his […]

It’s finally here ~ Your Family Session Prep Guide! Beside the task of coordinating family members’ schedules to select a date when everyone is available, I think the next hardest task for folks to prepare for their photography session is to figure out what everyone will wear! I’ve had this task on my “off season” […]

This is my mom…..my brave and beautiful mom. This image was taken about 1 week before she passed. It was taken with my very first digital camera. The location was her Hospice room, as cancer was overtaking her body. Every picture tells a story, so let me share with you the story behind her smile. […]

They say the “third time is a charm”, right? Well, this time, the saying applied to our attempts at getting the awesome Rayman family on my calendar and in front of my camera. And once we did, let me tell you, it was worth the wait! Originally, the family contacted me in January of 2022, […]

Each year, my calendar is  jam packed the last week of October through the first week of November as clients want to be photographed against the beautiful backdrop of the fall colors in Ohio! Some years I am travelling to Mill Hollow, a gorgeous Lorain County Metropark located in Vermilion, Ohio, several times in one […]