Life Behind the Emerald Lens

Janellen turned 70 and her family threw quite the bash to celebrate.  I got to shoot photos to commemorate the occasion and meet her wonderful family.  It is so much fun to meet so many people and try to photograph them!  Some only wanted Christmas card photos while others wanted mini-family photo shoots.  I really [...]

While at the big photo shoot for Janellen’s 70th birthday, I also shot the Franklin family along with their extended loved ones.  Mostly it was the Franklin’s, but we also shot a photograph of them with mom and a sibling’s family.  (Mom is Janellen’s sister.)

I think this crew looked pretty snazzy all in black shirts, [...]

The third family I photographed on my big day was The Berry Family.  They are fairly newly married and they have this absolutely adorable little girl that I fell in love with.

Seriously!  Is anyone surprised? That’s right, I fell in love with another baby!  I know.  People who read my blog know I say this [...]

I first met the Sawyer Family on their wedding anniversary.  Turns out they married on 7-11 which is just a cool date.  I told them to get a free slurpee!  If I’d thought about it, I’d have gone and gotten slurpee’s before heading over to take family portraits.  Sawyers, if we ever do more photos [...]

I recently spent a day with a family doing a large group photo and some individual families.  It was great meeting some wonderful people and I having fun the morning they were celebrating the 70th birthday of Mom.

The first family I took pictures of was the Ziemba Family.  I fell in love with their girls, [...]