Every year, my family takes a vacation together.  We’ve done this as long as I can remember, from car trips to Tennessee to our more recent exotic travels to the Caribbean.  It’s always amazed me how well we get along together – though we’re all pretty easy-going and dedicated swimmers, readers, and drinkers.  Really, the […]

A few months ago, Kamran and I had the distinct pleasure of being photographed by Jeff Shipley when we were visiting Portland.  I was recently reminded that we never shared the images from the shoot, so I thought this would be  a great time to do so. Thank you so much to Jeff Shipley for […]

I lay on a green mat, staring at the ceiling and furiously kicking my legs.  “One more minute,” says James, who looms over me, a tower of muscles.  My legs burn with discomfort, and I think that killing myself one flutter kick at a time was not really what I had planned when I joined […]

  I can’t believe it, it’s 2013.  I swear it was just August 2012 yesterday.  But, here we are, with one more fabulous winter wedding coming up and then a couple months of “off season”.  Crazy! I’ve never been one to make New Years Resolutions.  In fact, I’m not really a list person.  But if […]

It’s Friday, and though we have a busy weekend of shooting ahead of us, I am feeling the Friday glow!  We are still busy with editing and catching up on the kinds of things that we tend to put off (i.e. accounting), but we have created a little space for new obsessions to creep in. […]