Montana & Arizona Wedding and Portrait Photography

I remember when I first started on this journey of taking other peoples pictures. I remember that what I fell in love with was not photography. It wasn’t the camera that made me smile. It wasn’t the composition, necessarily, that gave me goosebumps. It wasn’t even the idea that I was making a way for […]

Once upon a time . . . ~     Sometimes we think that the love story ends when the groom walks away with his new bride. When the dance party is over, the cake is gone, the champagne is gone . . . when we all stand with sparklers and watch that feet couple […]

. . . best of 2011 . . . Every year, at Christmas time, we have a contest.  A contest created in the spirit of giving.  I wanted to find a way to give back to my clients for allowing me to be a part of their stories, and this seemed to be the best. […]

  The Christmas season is here. It came way, way too fast! It is the end of another year, and a time when we all begin to reflect on how the year has gone. Mine has gone so so so fast!  Moments have passed too quickly.  Weeks are gone before I know it, and now […]

    There are things you learn about someone just by watching them.   When Stefan and I first moved to our small Montana town, I told him – four years.  Four years, tops!  I saw nothing but small town.  I saw nothing but old buildings, dirty snow.  I saw nothing but boring, unexciting, cold […]

    A look can say a thousand things. You know it’s true. I know that you have given and received them. I’ve given many a look in my day and I expect the recipient to interpret my meaning when they get “the look.”   There’s the look that says, “Do not mess with me […]

Moms out there, remember the sleep-deprived zombie state? The dozens of teeny diapers? Feeding, holding, rocking your needy newborn. Soon, he’s sleeping on schedule. The sleep deprivation lasts only a moment. Soon enough, he is going in the big boy potty. Diapers last only a moment. Soon enough, the rocking is replaced by walking and […]

I was hustling around putting dinner in the oven, feeling so badly that we were 20 minutes late already and it still had 40 minutes to bake. Scrambling to wash the dinner prep dishes, Sarah Beth was pulling on my pants.  Micah was jumping on the couches and Adah was dancing to the very loud […]