I LOVE getting the city scape of Austin in images. Here, Family N got their favorite town and their favorite boy captured in a fun shoot on the shores of Lady Bird Lake.

Many of you know I’ve been fighting the City of Austin over the $50 per-session fee they now charge for professional photographers to use Zilker Botanical Gardens. I have not asked for the fee to go away, only for them to charge us an annual fee instead so that photographers like me can absorb the [...]

We are having a GREAT time in the bluebonnets! They’ve been slower to bloom than last year, but they are coming all the same. I have opened up a second weekend for portraits. (Click to see schedule.) I haven’t even photographed my OWN girls in the flowers yet! These shots were all taken last weekend. [...]

I was so thrilled to wake up this morning to a raging storm! I’ve been a little worried about having enough of a waterfall for the Bull Creek Outdoor Portrait Special coming up. And here it came! I didn’t even mind getting out in gale winds and a downpour this morning. If you’ve never seen [...]

The New Year is out of the starting blocks, and I’ve already checked several of my January goals off my list. Started submitting writing again Got my studio un-Christmastized and shot my first sitting Located a company to manage my emails to you guys (they are going to be so much prettier and more functional as [...]

It’s that time of year where I break out my Christmas tree, pull out the Santa hats, and prepare for the onslaught of holiday portraits. Every year, families who come back season after season ask me, “What’s new this year?” Well, this year it is *supposed* to be my Ho Ho Ho props. I saw [...]

I’m not very superstitious. I might believe in signs and symbols, but mainly that’s because I think we can act on what we want to see and believe, much like we read a horoscope and take away only what applies to us. But two days ago, when a black cat took the trouble and danger to dart [...]

I have always seen symbols in things. Often I am wrong about them, but at the time they make sense, and serve their purpose. Yesterday my day got off kilter when I dashed across town to help a friend find her passport so she could get to an interview and fill out her I-9 for a job. [...]

This is the time of year things really start to get crazy. In October, it’s outdoor sittings, in November, we will switch to studio shots, Santas, Christmas trees, and presents! The fun part of October is to watch the seasons change, as always happens during this fall special. We start out in the 90s, families [...]

Sometimes it’s fun to be a photographer, as I get to capture people’s events for them. There have been many happy moments in my friends’ lives lately, and I am pleased to have been able to be a part of them. Baby Kayleigh got a surprise shower (of course she didn’t see a thing, still [...]