Spring 2025, we are finally here!
Winter has felt very long this year. In Maine just last week it was snowing, but the crocuses are popping up and it’s beginning, finally, to feel a little like spring.
Leaning into the quiet, monochromatic season gives me a lot of quiet time. I have been thinking a lot about community and how mine is scattered all over the world. I miss so many people. If I put a pin on a map in the spot where each person I care about lives it would look like a constellation of people who I love. All different points of light that have shone onto my life as I have gone along. There are far too few photos of these people, and far fewer of me with them.
What does it mean to make a brief moment, something so ephemeral, into something tangible? Why is it that society has embraced showing a version of ourselves that is sometimes, not always, but perhaps quite frequently fictionalized? Americans are in love with watching shows and movies that depict a fictional story, but when it comes to sharing our own truths, we shy away.
How do I best create space for honesty in a session? In my life? In my day to day of just being a person while hopefully each day, in some tiny way, a bit better person than the day before?
Last fall I took a really wonderful class online. It was called “At Play” and it was taught by a really wonderful teacher, Celina Bailey with Illuminate Classes. It was all about experimenting with technique, trying things that are risky, pushing the boundaries of creativity, and making space for the unexpected. I loved it. This winter I have been continuing these techniques with the hope that if I can push my own practice outside of “the lines” then when I’m working in sessions, I’ll be able to tap into creativity, and make not just family photos, or wedding photos, or headshots, but art, with my wonderful clients.
As the days get longer and we look forward to summer I have a few things going on:
Family, lifestyle, and newborn sessions:
I’m booking sessions in the evenings and weekends in May and starting in June I will have full availability on most weekday evenings in addition to weekends.
Weddings:
I am booking for July-November 2025 right now for small weddings, elopements, and micro weddings in Southern Maine.
Interested in having me photograph you, but you’re outside of New England? I would love to hear all about your wedding, send me an email.
San Diego: I love you. I want to make a San Diego trip happen in 2025. The only way that I can logistically do this kind of cross country trip is if I have clients lined up in advance. If you live in Southern California and would like to book a session, click here. I would be so thrilled to see you again.