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New Camera, New Lens, New Me!
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New Camera, New Lens, New Me!

After my first photoshoot with my new Canon R7 camera using the kit lens, I quickly realized how limiting kit lenses can be. I got plenty of great images, but I was left wanting more.

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Innovations in Flight Expo
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Innovations in Flight Expo

The Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Dulles, VA hosts an annual Innovations in Flight event where you can see a lot of different planes and talk to different pilots and engineers of these various aircraft about flight innovations over the last century.

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Last summer, my favorite day I photographed was our 4th of July family get together.⁠ In the morning, we went hiking at Algonkian Park with my father in law. Then my parents came over for lunch. We grilled, pulled out the splash pad, and just hung ou
It’s just a Sunday at the park. The same park you’ve been to a hundred times. The same slides, the same swings, the same kid who doesn’t want to go home. Except it’s never actually the same twice. They’re always a littl
The dishes will get done.⁠ The counter will get cleared. ⁠ The cupboard will get closed. ⁠ ⁠ At some point, the outfits will match and the house will be quiet and everything will look the way you think it's supposed to look.⁠ ⁠ But right now? ⁠ ⁠ You
This is the post I've been dreaming of writing for a long time.⁠ ⁠ Four years ago, my dad handed me his old DSLR. I spent the next year slowly re-learning how to use it — shooting on weekends, editing late at night, blogging, just documenting w
It’s just a Saturday afternoon at home. The kind where nobody planned anything and somehow everything happened. These are the days you’ll look back on with your grown kids someday and they’ll remember exactly how good it was. That
Before every session, I get some version of the same questions. ⁠ ⁠ What if I'm awkward and don’t know what to do?⁠ What if my kids won't cooperate?⁠ Will you tell us what to do? ⁠ ⁠ I love these questions. They tell me someone cares. They just