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Hi!
Nice to meet you!
Thanks for stopping by this page to find out the personal side! So kind of you to care!
I’m a follower of Jesus, wife to David, and mom to Cori, Nora, Benny, and Eli. We home-educate, so life is full! Just like you, I’m sure, the days are long, and the years short!
God knit me to be one of his creative kids, so naturally I love makin’ stuff; it doesn’t really matter what medium. Then, in college at UK, I finished a degree in art, specifically photography, in 2006. I worked for 4 photography studios over the years before jumping out into exciting world of self-employment! Since then, I have photographed weddings, commercial work, by my favorites, BY FAR, have been the young family… newborns, children, and their families.
These are some of my favorite snippets of time….
I am super thankful to my friend Stephanie for shooting this iphone snap of me during this session! It was a great day, and very windy, which is why I needed Stephany!
When I shoot outside, I don’t use any kind of flash, but about 90% of the time I use a reflector to pop the light around where I need it! Reflectors get knocked about by the wind, so it’s helpful to have a friend who can help keep it from blowing away!
Love this stuff…
One of my favorite things to do with a kid in a session (even though this pic is not from a session) is to hand over my “big camera” and let him hold it and shoot. The parents get all nervous (hehe) and the kid grows 10 feet tall. It’s a treat to get to see their faces just light up with the privilege!
I just love it when a client sends me an action shot from our morning! 😀
Thank you Daniela!!!!!
So I’m kinda proud of this…
My husband and I sortof have the ongoing hobby of building stuff together…. furniture, playgrounds, cool shelves… whatever. It’s a neat little cooperation we have. The disign is usually 90% mine, and the execution is 90% his.
In this case, I wanted a cool bookshelf for my second daughter’s room. I get very in to “nesting” and “getting the room ready” when I am preggo. I dunno, it’s fun for me! So we built the book shelves while I was pregnant, and the whole time I had this photoraph that I would make in mind….
Both my girls…
And then along came baby number 3!
My second daughter got evicted from the nursery, and my first son moved in.
We repainted everything to make the nursery a boys’ room, and of course the bookshelves got painted too! And so we made this photograph…
I bet you can guess what’s coming!
Yup. Now we need 4 kids in the shelves!
So in case you’re temped to report me or something, don’t. It’s not fake, per se, but it’s also not as dangerous as it looks. Never were there multiple children in the shelves at one time! For example, when I photographed the baby, my husband was no less than a foot away! Yup. That’s the magic of using a tripod, controlled light, paying close attention to shadows, and of course, PHOTOSHOP!
I actually photographed each individual kid, took the time to get the shot I wanted, and then removed that kid and went on to the next kid. Rinse and repeat that four times. Then I pieced it together in postproduction! Voila!
So this is a fairly personal, kinda monumental, part of our story…
My second daughter and second son are both “rainbow babies.” Ever heard that term? “Rainbow babies” are babies who are born healthy after a miscarriage.
Rainbows are the beautiful reminder of God’s goodness and his faithfulness. (See Genesis 9… and then keep reading till you get to the cross.)
Five of our children were born into heaven over the past 7 years or so. We are no stranger to heartbreak, confusion, anger and all the fog that goes along with grief! And it’s a tricky thing when such deep pain is associated with the hope and anticipation of birth!
The reason why I share this with the world is simply to say to some of you that you are not alone in this. I know that for some, your pregnancy is fraught with fear and cynicism, and you may be exhausted by the rollercoaster of emotions you have experienced. I have been exactly in that place. There is no Hallmark greeting card for this type of thing. But when you can’t muster up the energy to be excited for your baby to come, your friends and your family can help with that! You never walk alone!
These are my rainbow babies…
My four ♡