Category Archives: Studio & Products

Pretty things that Last.

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My Heirloom Session Album is my most popular product.  I have a few hunches as to the ‘why’: 1)  Not all of my clients are looking for wall portraits – they either don’t have the wall space, or we’ve already filled their wall space with artwork from their last portrait session.   They do want to...

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Et voila, c’est moi!

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.  ~Richard Avedon The thing about a cliché is that even when it has been overused to the point that no one really pays attention any more — it almost always still rings true.  Enter the cliché about ‘each photographer being different because of...

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Old books, new books, red books, blue books.

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I love old books. The kind that are covered in beautiful bright coloured fabrics with textured cream paper, words embossed in gold or copper and gilding on the sides… I searched far and wide for a custom bookbinder who could craft the perfect book for my Heirloom Session Albums. Once I discovered that Leather Craftsmen could...

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“though thou art small…”

My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escuriall.* –George Herbert Finally – what I’ve been working on for the last two months is (nearly) complete!  To clarify: 1.  I say “what I’ve been working on”, but it’s been a community effort (to say the least).  I know the happiest person...

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