A few years ago I walked into Jon DeVries’s office at Roosevelt University and took a seat.  I wasn’t really sure what I was doing there, but Kamran had urged me to come talk to him.  Kam had already started the MBA program at Roosevelt a year earlier, and I was envious of his interesting […]

We got lucky last weekend that since we were going to Green Lake to shoot Ellen and Paul’s wedding, we would get  a chance to visit with my family as well.  It just so happened that my mom finally retired from her long nursing career on Monday, so we were able to stick around and […]

Marriage amazes me sometimes.  When you think about it, it’s kind of incredible  that out of nowhere, two completely different families come together through their shared bonds to one couple.  In our case, the odds seem even longer given that Kamran and I come from parts of the world that are well, completely different. And […]

I’ve hinted in a couple of recent posts that Kam and I made a trip out West last week to attend the WPPIU conference, where a roomful of wedding and portrait photographers geeked out over the kinds of things that make our hearts go pitter-patter – lighting, editing, posing, more lighting, etc.  We got to […]

I mentioned last week that Kam and I were getting ready for a photoshoot with Jeffrey Shipley for our website re-design.  Well, the shoot was last Friday, and boy oh boy do I feel a lot more sympathy for all of my wonderful clients!  I mean, really, even though we had 150% confidence in our photographer, […]