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June 25, 2012 50 years ago…

50 years ago today, a baby girl was born. She was the youngest of three at the time, and ended up being the middle of five, the only girl among 4 brothers. As a young girl she loved horseback riding and had a pony named Moony. One day she would grow up to be a beautiful young woman and move clear across the country to California. She would live in a small studio apartment with no furniture and work at Arby's,...

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June 15, 2012 Macro Photography!

The last time I got to play around with a macro lens was when I rented one for Ryan & Sameeha's wedding back in September. I only used it for the ring shots in their wedding and didn't really get a chance to use them for anything else. The lenses arrived for tomorrow's wedding so tonight I figured it would be fun to go out and play around in the yard with the new macro lens and get some shots...

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June 11, 2012 Watching you grow!

One of the reasons I love being a photographer (there are so many reasons I love it, aren't there?) is that I get to watch you and your family grow! Photographers are like doctors and other life long service providers. If you find one you click with, you stick with them forever and they become almost a part of your family. It took me what felt like forever to find a doctor that I like, and now that I have I...

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June 4, 2012 Today I fell in love

with an inanimate object. This is not my first love affair with an inanimate object. Anyone who knows me knows that my iPhone is like an appendage and my Kindle lives in my bag at all times. And this is much the same kind of love, the kind where you want to use this thing every second of every day. What is this object that I speak of? My brand new 85mm lens. Oh the beautiful images that will come from this baby! I...

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