As you may recall, one of my goals for this year is to create at least one fine art piece per month. This seems like a pretty manageable goal since the shoots themselves don’t tend to take too terribly long. Sometimes there as quick as 20 minutes shooting, and the rest is all photoshop work. …
Start Planner
With all the goals I’ve set for myself for this year, I knew I needed to get organized in 2016. When I was in high school, I was an avid planner user. We got one at the beginning of the school year each year and I used that sucker like crazy. Well somewhere between college …
Guster Craynn Newborn Photography | Mt. Zion, IL
I’m so excited to share this handsome little man with all of you! Jarred and Laramie are two of our dear friends (who you’ve probably seen on the journal a time or two before). I still remember very clearly the night Laramie texted me to tell me she had gotten her positive pregnancy test. Of …
18 Things You Shouldn’t Say to Someone Struggling with Infertility
I’d like to preface this post by saying that I’m not a super sensitive person. I’m not easily offended, and I’m usually pretty good at looking at a situation from the other person’s point of view to understand where they are coming from. After initially writing this post, I actually read a blog post by …
Jennifer Birschbach Senior Photography | St. Teresa Decatur
Today I get to share the amazing Jennifer, one of my St. Teresa High School senior ladies! I knew I liked Jenny from the moment I met her. I feel like she is one of those seniors who already has a pretty firm grasp on who she is and who she wants to be. And …
St. Teresa 2016 Winter Sports Portraits
This marks officially one full year since I started working with St. Teresa. My first shoot for my alma mater was last year for their winter sports portraits and a couple weeks ago we did the 2016 winter sports portraits. For those who don’t keep track of sports… that means we got to photograph the …
Book Review: If You Feel Too Much by Jamie Tworkowski
What?! Book 2 is done already! How is this happening? For the past few years I’ve struggled to find the time to read… but with this new goal to read a book a month – it’s really helping me get some much desired reading in. (Real Talk – It also has helped that I’ve started …
THRIVE February 2016 Shoots
I feel like that last month went by super quickly and here we are with another little peek at some of the shoots I got to do for THRIVE magazine in Decatur last month. If you live in Decatur I’m sure you have seen this awesome entertainment magazine in various places around town. THRIVE does …
Behind the Scenes: We All Start Somewhere
Once upon a time, I was a new and budding photographer with big hopes! When I graduated from college with my BFA in photography and design, I had hardly any money and only basic camera equipment. But I decided if I was going to have a home business – I needed to start now and …
Baby Journey: Why Adoption Is Not Always the Answer
When you open up about something that people have no experience in or don’t understand… you undoubtedly are going to get questions. A lot of questions. There is one question that seems to be incredibly common when you are struggling with infertility. Before we changed directions in our path towards parenthood… I was asked this …