My Roommates in the Womansion
My Roommates in the WoMansion In this collaboration of 13 female photographers from around the world we each created our own rooms within a digital mansion - a WoMansion - a virtual artist exhibit depicting our lives through Covid via 360 photography. It's been...
Building a Room in the WoMansion
What is WoMansion? One of the highlights of 2020 was having the opportunity to participate in the building of a digital mansion. The rooms display the creative efforts of 13 women from around the world, dipicting our lives through 2020, Covid, and isolation. This was...
Fashionable Foto Fables – Lizzie Borden
Slaughterhouse Series - Fashionable Foto Fables McKinney Gough is a hat designer and costumer in Asheville, NC. When I lived in Asheville I had the opportunity to work with her on her concept for a series of photo stories using her hats to tell some common folklore...
Lifestyle Photoshoot with The Mendocino Dance Project
I get to do the best things... In partnership with the Arts Council of Mendocino County, I was privileged to follow The Mendocino Dance Project for a couple of days. As one of the winners of a marketing and branding lifestyle photoshoot, I photographed this team at...
Metaphors in a Bottle: Still Life Photography
Still Life Photography Metaphors I'm one of those people who makes a metaphor out of everything I see and experience. Seeing faces in clouds, a deep existential meaning in the trees and how they bend, the trying to find the deeper meaning in the way the every day...
California Road Tripping – North on 1
California Travel Photography on Hwy 1 Before I was ever any particular 'kind' of photographer (i.e.: portrait photographer, commercial photographer, etc) I have always been just a photographer. Someone who just has to drag my camera around and take pictures of the...
Traveling Across Country
Traveling With My Cat I went on a little road trip last month. I say little, not because of the length of the road trip (2800 miles), but because I had to do it fast. Why fast? Because I was traveling with a cat. If you've ever traveled with a cat, you know why...
The Art of Posing Groups
How Triangles Matter In Group Fashion Photography You know, I'm not really a math kind of girl. Or a geometry, or even trigonometry kind of girl. I shy from numbers, I see and think in pictures. I think this is why photography as a profession is a good fit for...
Headshots – One Picture, Many Possibilities
Why I Shoot Headshots In Horizontal Orientation Ok, confession, I don't ALWAYS shoot my headshots in horizontal orientation, but I do shoot most of them that way. Orientation matters when you are shooting professional portraits because you need to use them in so many...