Category Archives: Thoughts

Testing out a New Camera

Generally I don’t like talking about gear. I have what I have and it gets the job done with how I shoot. If I want to expand how I shoot, I’ll find the right gear to do that. Currently my work cameras don’t shoot video. Shortly before Amaya came, Arielle and I were talking about...

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Maya Leigh Paris

We went to visit Megan, Bryan, Finn and their new addition Maya fifty five hours after she was born. Fifty five hours after the family had a second home birth. Fifty five hours after the type of birth we’re planning for our little one that’s on the way. It was great to see Megan recovering...

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Tin’s Birthday Pool Party

Our good friends Lynn and Brendan’s daughter, Kristen aka Tin, turned 4 a couple weeks ago. Since it’s Phoenix in the summer, her birthday party was a pool party. During the course of the party Kristin decided she didn’t want to be called Tin any more and wanted to be called Kristin. I guess it’s...

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Father’s Day – Baby Belly Shots part 1

Around Christmas of last year, Arielle and I found out that we were going to have a baby. It was a very exciting Christmas gift. Every week since late in the 1st trimester of Arielle’s pregancy we’ve been going out and doing baby belly photo shoots. They started out as “secret baby” shoots before we...

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Preparing for wedding season

When I was in college, I never thought about data management, I just wanted to make pictures. Over the years, I’ve switched from an unorganized stack of DVD backups to using a very organized RAID and online backup system. This has been a life saver when trying to find old photos. Over the past 2...

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