It Mattered To That One

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” ― Mahatma Gandhi I can't find the words to explain what I set out to explain when I started...

The Story All Around You...

This post is sponsored by Disney Story. To find out more about this brand-new story-creation app - and how it puts the power of storytelling in your hands - click here. It is happening all around...

A Toast...

image: becka robinson for OPP (this one and more like it will be launching on the new site!) "So raise your glass if you are wrong in all the right ways, all my underdogs" -Pink

How Mama Got Her Groove Back...

(I know there's a typo in the image, I just don't feel like making a new one. Truth.) The first year of Bubs' life was one of the hardest years of mine. PPD, a body I didn't recognize or know what...

Coffee Cup Chats | Just Keep Swimming

I'm guilty of it. Perhaps it is a generational thing? Perhaps it's all the motivational speakers telling me how great I am all the time and how all I have to do is just believe in myself. Perhaps...

5 Minutes With | Justina Blakeney

my home office, styled with tricks I learned from Justina! Today we are spending five minutes with our guest of honor, Justina Blakeney. Justina is a new mom and crazy talented interior designer...

Wekiva Springs | Shot, Developed, and Scanned By Me

1970's Canon F1, Ilford Pan F+ 50, shot in a kayak, developed and scanned at home We have shot film for a while now. It is actually a very big part of our photography style now as well as the new...

Adventure or Nothing...

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure." -...

A Makeover Story...

I hope you liked my new home office tour earlier this week! I wanted to share some behind the scenes photos with you just for fun. And also so it doesn't seem like a beautiful new office just...

The Great Swapover of 2013 | A Home Office Makeover

Before I give you the grand tour, I feel like it's only right that I give you a bit of backstory. About 3 weeks ago I was working in my home office. Which might not sound strange except that I...

The Solution That May Be...

"The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life. It's so easy to make it complex. The solution that may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You...

Hello Sunshine...

Fujifilm X100s + VSCO film I know most people are just now feeling like spring has arrived but here in the sunshine state I'm feeling like we're already headed right into summer. Where did the...

The Dreamers Of The Day...

THOSE WHO DREAM BY NIGHT IN THE DUSTY RECESSES OF THEIR MINDS WAKE UP IN THE DAY TO FIND IT WAS VANITY, BUT THE DREAMERS OF THE DAY ARE DANGEROUS MEN, FOR THEY MAY ACT THEIR DREAMS WITH OPEN EYES,...

That Time I Used a Circular Saw...

all photos taken with the Fuji x100s and edited with VSCO film I found a tutorial online for a raised square foot garden and decided that I needed to make one. Obviously. I figured out the...

A Brand New | The Work No One Sees

all photos taken with the Fuji x100s and edited with VSCO film 5 years of shooting. Over 100 weddings shot. Easily over 250 sessions shot. Nearly 10 editorials. Well over 500,000 images taken. Add...

The 2nd Easter and Ramblings Aplenty...

At 11:13pm on Easter eve I found myself standing in line at the 24-hour Wallgreens among the ranks of all the other parents who had forgotten to get goodies for their kids Easter baskets. Great way...

It was Sara's Birthday...

Things I Want But Don't Need | March Edition

Ya'll, I am loving project downsize but I am having a case of item envy like no one's business. I just want to buy all of the things. Sadly, my bank account does not agree so I'm relegated to...

What's New With You?

Because Kathleen asked, "What's new?" and since I'm generally behind in every single area of my life right now and haven't had the brain space to put together any sort of pithy or evocative proper...

When I'm Not Here | What Happens In Vegas...

top: view of the hotel (and strip) from the airport | bottom: view of the airport from the hotel One of my favorite "work" things each year is the annual Wedding and Portrait Photographers...

Somebody Told Me That's Where Dreamers Should Go...

I'm (well... we're) off to Las Vegas for the annual international wedding and portrait photographers convention and trade show. It's one of our favorite things each year. 15,000+ artists like us...

5 Minutes With | Liene Stevens

Today we are spending five minutes with our guest of honor, Liene Stevens. It is because of Liene that I met some of my closest artistpreneur friends and Liene's little notes of encouragement...

A Very Rare, Very Cold Day...

...and by "very cold" I mean 57 degrees.

A Poem Like an Exhale...

I am in a process of letting go. Not in the sense of an emotional release, but the uncurling of fingers Grasping hard onto some thing out of sheer terror of it escaping. Like dead leaves collecting...

In Order To Go On Living...

I had a dream two nights ago that I was being harassed interviewed questioned by the father of a bride-to-be interested in hiring me to photograph their story. I was sitting across from him, he was...

Cabin Fever

I have been looking online for little houses in the woods, or on a lake, or by the springs that I could imagine us moving into. A little house where the view from every window was of nature and...

5 Minutes With | Megan Gilger

Today we are spending five minutes with our guest of honor, Megan Gilger. Megan is the creator of the much loved blog, The Fresh Exchange where she shares insights into the world of being your own...

5 Tips for Traveling For Work

Have you traveled for work? Did you learn any tips that you'd like to share?

That's Brilliant | Be The Gift Giveaway

I think these letterpressed IOU's for new moms are just brilliant. So is the entire concept behind their creation of "being the gift". I know how nice it was when friends and family pitched in in...

When I'm Not Here | A Weekend In Chicago

I am very blessed that people like my (and my husband's) photography enough to bring us all over the world to collaborate with them. This last weekend (was it already a week ago?!) was no exception...