Category Archives: My family

My other family

The request came through a few weeks ago: Would you do a family portrait to mark a 50th wedding anniversary? There are 8 adults and 8 children, and we want everyone traditionally posed and looking at the camera. My initial response would have been “I’m so sorry, but this type of portraiture is not something...

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another kind of lovely

Dorrie has an inner light. I wish my camera could capture this invisible thing. Ignore her big blue eyes and her cornsilk hair. Her true beauty is in her voice, it’s intonation, the patient way she looks at you, the ridiculously detailed pictures she draws, the stories she writes, and the dances she spontaneously performs....

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A photograph is memory in the raw. ~Carrie Latet

We’ve returned from a hastily planned family vacation to California. It was a good vacation. Of course I brought my real camera. Hello, I go everywhere with that thing. Everywhere. Even the grocery store. However, there were 642 pictures taken with my real camera which I don’t have time to deal with now, as much...

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Dorrie : 4

Our first warm afternoon. Time to kill. Just me and her. These are the days, and they are almost over. A few more months of preschool and then my baby is off to kindergarten. There will be no more afternoons of just the two of us. Her baby fat is melting and she’s complaining of...

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Merry Everything. To Everyone.

Wishing everyone health and happiness and the love of family. — Heidi (The studio will be officially closed until January 4th 2010, but I will be checking in regularly. Happy New Year!)

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