One of the major advantages of being at an international convention, surrounded by a multitude of talented photographers from all over the world, is that you have this terrific opportunity to line up a shoot, update the headshots, and get some real experience on the other side of the lens. Which, as any good shooter […]
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A huge thanks to Crash Taylor for a very fun interview. Crash is an exceptionally talented England-based photographer who has interviewed some exceptionally intriguing people … and then, recently, lowered his standards a bit (sweet soul) and interviewed me… You can check out the rest of the interview here. A special thanks to Australian-based Sue […]
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Available now on DVD! After nearly one year of storyboarding, filming, editing, animating, audio mixing and more editing, I am thrilled to announce the release of Inside Contemporary Children’s Photography, a collaboration between our studio and Ballard Productions (available now on DVD). When we first started thinking about putting something like this together, we had […]
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Thanks to Professional Photographer Magazine for running such a cool article about my shooting style in the new December issue. Cute title: Bring on The Scamp. So much fun to see and read through it – and, as always, a lovely layout. The topic dovetails nicely with the presentation I’ll be giving at Imaging USA […]
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When my Sophie requested a unique twist on her birthday celebration, my first thought was, yeah….a chocolate slip n’ slide? Fun idea … so, what else would you like to do…? But she really stuck with her request, and we finally started brainstorming ideas on how to really make it happen. Also got some great […]
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Today I would like to tell you a little about what I was up to this summer (which will also explain my hiatus from the blog). I was lucky to spend all of June and July in Arusha, Tanzania working to help develop a Literacy Through Photography program there. Literacy Through Photography, or LTP, is […]
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My youngest child, sweet Ana Elisa (whose adoption I chronicled last year and, also, the subject of my very last blog entry:) recently decided to style her own hair. She pulled the same move her sister had when she was also near the same age. She snuck some scissors into the bathroom and decided to […]
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Was lovely to see the new issue of Premier Baby Magazine, which always features our images … this time including a sweet story about little Ana Elisa coming home from Ecuador. It was also particularly heartening, too, as this story runs exactly four years after the last story they published about my gorgeous Caleb coming […]
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We celebrated Caleb’s 5th Birthday all week, and he was all smiles nearly the entire time. A few photographs of my lovely boy and his sweet friends…. Ana Elisa: Always up for a party Wholly disinterested in sleep Caleb’s best *boy* friend And if he’s going to have to be best friends with a girl, […]
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Awww, I came across this photograph that I took not too long ago, and it just made me smile. These children of mine!! (Or at least these children I have been gifted with, for as much as these little spirits can ever be ours…) Oh my goodness, I do love them so.
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I just had to share this photograph of Ana Elisa, all dressed up in her brand new Christmas dress, a gift from her grandparents (all four of whom she had the pleasure to meet just last week). Oh – and when I say her transition has been amazing? What I mean is that the girl […]
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I just wanted to wish every single person on this earth a happy holiday season!! 2007 has been a wonderful year, and we want to offer our genuine gratefulness to all of our clients, to our friends (who are very often also our clients or maybe it is our clients who very often become our […]
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I am so unbelievably proud to announce the formal completion of our adoption of Ana Elisa Anita Maria (Vasquez Sarmiento) Lackey. Oh. My. Goodness. What a beautiful thing. You know that feeling, after you finish an event of some great physical endurance – whatever that means to you, surviving a holiday with extended family, racing […]
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We arrived in Ecuador about a month ago. So much has happened in that time, it is simply not possible to summarize. The best part of everything, of course, is this beautiful child, the reason we are here. And it won’t be that long before I can show what I mean by beautiful 🙂 But […]
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