“Dear girl. YOU are the greatest art you will ever create. The masterpiece. The magnum opus. You’re it. However you want to be.”
Read MoreBeggs Oklahoma
Thoughts and Prayers /
Is a woman in various stages of undress indicative of my work by now? I sure hope so. I feel like I’ve captured this with enough of my models. We moved from my bedroom into what I lovingly refer to as the Wonder Room in my home for these photos. I thought about just including these in the same post as the bedroom set but well, they seem to feel quite different simply because of the setting.
Read MoreScene at Hastings Rd /
My last shoot with Amanda (my oldest friend and one of my very first models nearly 20 years ago now) was in 2016 in Santa Fe. The one before that was in 2012 and I remember waxing poetic after our last one about how the previous 4 years had just inexplicably flown by and now: here I am, posting my favorites from our last shoot that happened 7 years following our previous one.
Read MoreChasing Butterflies /
Before this girl was born, my husband and I would talk at length about how strange it would be to finally meet her, wondered what she’d look like, who she’d be. When she was a baby we’d marvel at how tiny she was, yet how big her personality, and we’d talk about how strange it would be to imagine her as a child, walking around, talking even. It all seemed so distant & strange and impossible to really comprehend.
Read MoreOK Winter Wonderland /
Last weekend the Tulsa, OK area got an unusual amount of snow. My family and I just moved from Denver to a 7 acre property about 30 minutes south of Tulsa. This particular piece of land happens to have a small lake (or a big pond) on the property and the sudden and ample snowfall completely transformed this thing into a picturesque scene out of a storybook or painting.
Read MoreChildhood /
“When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you”
― Gail Carson Levine
My Little Zombie /
Fall and Halloween are two of my favorite things. Also a favorite thing? Having a daughter who’s now old enough to dress up however I’d like but not old enough to have an opinion about it.
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