How to Volunteer With Your Camera

How to Volunteer With Your Camera

Today is Martin Luther King Day. It is the only holiday that’s been designated a national day of service. It’s intended to be a day on, not a day off. Organizations large and small and individuals around the country take time on this day to volunteer to do...
How to Use Your iPhone Burst Function

How to Use Your iPhone Burst Function

Here’s an iPhone function that is incredible technology and super useful. It’s also a little frustrating (OK, more than a little frustrating) if you don’t know what you’re doing. It’s the Burst function. Burst means you hold the shutter button down and it shoots 10...

How I Photographed The First Day of School

September 2022 First day of school photos are a classic family rite. Our boys went back to school two weeks a go and I took the last First Day of School pic of my son Alexander. He’s a senior this year.  (Of course there will be off-to-college pics next year,...
We’ve relaunched our travel workshops!

We’ve relaunched our travel workshops!

We are so excited to relaunch our live workshop program with a top favorite destination!! Have you ever considered taking a photography workshop? It could be the best thing you ever do for your photography, your confidence, and your soul! WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW TO SEE...
Sorrowful Times

Sorrowful Times

Consider me among the wordless in this country who can’t make any sense of what’s happened in the last couple weeks. It’s hard to disassociate what we do here with photography and pictures of families, especially children, and not be moved to our...

How to Pace Your Photo Stories

Last weekend I viewed a set of photographs that showed up on my iPhone—and beautiful photographs they are! But there was something about the pacing of this photo story that caused me to second guess some presentation decisions The New York Times made that we all face...

Top 50 Fan Photos of 2021

#1. Louise Bradt   The child is almost secondary for me in this wonderful family photo. What I find so delightful is the way those curved sprinkle lines from the upper left-hand corner find their way to that goofy face on the father holding the sprinkler. This is...

Top 50 Fan Photos of 2021

#2. BevAnne Moynham   BevAnne has given us many wonderful nature/animal photographs over the years, but this may be the very best. It’s like sculpture. We have all been inspired by the way you’ve grown as a photographer. There is no doubt you are making the...

Top 50 Fan Photos of 2021

#3. Laureen Dickinson’s daughter   This photograph is thoughtful and brave. Sometimes it’s best if I just keep my mouth closed. Here are Laureen’s words which are as powerful as the photograph: “Taken this morning by our daughter at the Drs. My husband was just...

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