Your Attention, Please

By nature, I am not a needy person, and so I didn’t take it personally when Holden suggested the concept for this one. He only meant to illustrate one of those moments in the lives of committed couples when one person suggests — quite directly and sometimes topless-ly — that the time has come to put the… Continue reading Your Attention, Please

Leaf Me Alone

Something funny and playful for your Monday evening: During our shoot on April 23, Holden had me go into the kitchen and turn the lights on, while he made his way onto the back porch stair landing with the thought of creating a photo along the lines of this one. What he had forgotten, however, is that… Continue reading Leaf Me Alone

Drifting

Happy Sunday, y’all! We enjoyed a much-needed relaxing weekend, catching up on sleep and not much else. With plans on the horizon — house guests, celebrations, travel — this might have been the final lazy weekend for us for the next month-plus! This photo is a close approximation of how I prefer to fade into sleep.… Continue reading Drifting

Our American Gothic

The room in which this photo was taken is decorated exclusively by family portraits. Most are school pictures of our sons, ranging from gap-toothed grammar school boys to awkward adolescence to nearly grown-up senior portraits. There are baby pictures, wedding photos, strip-mall portrait studio mementos and fading images of the long-since deceased from previous generations. For this… Continue reading Our American Gothic

Calendar Girl

It’s Friday! A perfect day to grab the date book and do a bit of planning, in my opinion. Not much going on for this coming weekend, though May promises to be delightfully busy. Our west coast vacation is now just a few short weeks away, and we can finally allow ourselves to be genuinely excited about it.… Continue reading Calendar Girl