One of the things I pride myself on as a professional photographer is that I am fully trained and educated in my field. While many photographers today are self taught and have no degrees or certifications in their craft – I actually went to college and double majored in photography and graphic design. Now I’m …
Why I Write…
When I started writing here over 7 years and 900 posts ago, I mainly used this space to post about my business and share my photographs. Because that’s what you’re “supposed to do” when you’re a photographer. You get a website and you start blogging. I was so new and fresh to this world of …
Another Year…
Well I woke up today another year older… I’m not one who looks forward to or really dreads birthdays. I’ve never placed much stock in them. Partly because I hate being the center of attention… I’d much rather have a small casual get together with a few people than some big overwhelming hooha any day! …
The New Renaissance Website
As you all may know – my church is very important to me. For years I thought my relationship with God was good. I had been to church in a while but I believed my relationship with God didn’t need to be confined by four walls. But within a couple weeks of attending Renaissance – …
Father’s Day
As you all know – yesterday was Father’s Day. Hopefully you got to spend time celebrating the amazing dad in your life. Maybe it’s because I’m a woman and I follow a lot of sites that focus on women, but I feel like dad’s can sometimes miss out on the praise they also deserve. It …
The Reality of Mothers Day
I’ve been sitting with this post for a while… trying to decide what to write and how much to share. It would be really easy for me to just focus on the happy side of this holiday – celebrating the mothers in my life. It would be really easy for me to keep my feelings …
Baby Journey: The Friend I Haven’t Met
For a while now I’ve been following Barn Own Primitives on Instagram. I love these cute handpainted signs Kristi makes. One day while I was flipping through my feed, I saw a sign she shared I hadn’t seen before: It was like seeing something I’d been feeling for so long encapsulated in this one beautiful …
Seven Years
7 years. To some that may seem like a small number and yet to others that might seem like an incredibly long time. These days, to say you’ve been married for seven years is quite a statement. And I know that I am incredibly blessed for this man I get to call mine. I had …
Easter 2015
So this year, is the first year in several years that Ryan and I have been attached to a church. And this year we find ourselves more than attached but involved, connected, family. It’s a wonderful feeling to have a church family – a group of people you connect with, who have the same beliefs …
Some Winter Photo Fun
So I haven’t shared any of my personal photography in a while. And with all this snow we’ve been having – of course I took my fur babies out and let them play. And like any good (dog) mom – I had to take some pictures of them playing and the beautiful winter snowscapes that …