meet rissa.
she was one of the friends i visited on my vacation last week. we had an impromptu family portrait session. literally we saw a cute brick wall, pulled over, and corralled all four kids. i LOVED the spontaneity of this session. i thought it would be a perfect session to give you photographers and...
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walls.
i started taking pictures long before i held a camera. it began slowly. it was a journey more of my heart than of my hands. and looking back now, i think i have been a photographer my entire life, but i have only recently labeled it as so.
i’ve been taking pictures since i was a...
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last week i was baking cookies with manoah.
even though it was like 100 degrees outside, we baked away. and while i was gathering all the ingredients, i realized one thing was missing… christmas music. yes, christmas music. amy grant’s voice belting, “a tender tenessee christmas” just seems like the most important ingredient while baking cookies....
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wow! all of your beautiful comments made my birthday so happy! i guess i need to give away more free portrait sessions in order to find out who is reading my blog. honestly, i am humbled by so many of the comments that were left. hearing your happy moments throughout the day made me laugh...
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since starting photo-orange photography over a year ago, one thing i have always felt passionate about was being creative…in the little things. the small and somewhat remote details that might even get overlooked. i wanted my clients to feel important and valued. that’s why after buying a camera and a lens my very next project...
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i brought the box home. set it on the shelf and starred at it. i walked in and out of the room and the box sat on the shelf starring back at me. i opened it. i did. and pulled out my new canon 40d camera. i barely touched it the first few days. it...
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Last year when I started my photography business, I never imagined that it would grow as it has. I actually never realized that photography was something that I would love so much. I still hesitate to call myself a photographer. I guess I never thought that something I did, that always felt so natural, was...
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