Friday, May 8 was National Public Gardens Day and, to celebrate, the Idaho Botanical Garden offered free admission! I’ve been before, but I couldn’t resist this opportunity. By the way, it’s a great place to have your photos taken, or have a wedding.                

If you’ve ever used Instagram, or seen someone post a photo to Twitter/Facebook/etc that they took through Instagram, you’ve seen lots of images with high contrast and special color effects. They look so cool, don’t they?! Playing with filters is fun for anyone: check out at all the things you can do to your picture! However, I don’t utilize these […]

This is one of my favorite senior photos from last summer, even though it’s not a traditional portrait. Now when I’m shooting, I make a lot of choices as I’m going along, but I always have a plan of certain poses I want to try (especially if my subject has something specific he/she has requested). This […]

One of the most wonderful things about photography is its ability to tell a story. This is one of my favorite photographs of my daughter and husband because the statement, “I love you” on her jammies is echoed in their hands. I can’t decide which says it better, the patch or her little hand wrapped […]

This fall, I got together with Gerry and Jaime’s family to do some portraits. There were plenty of colorful leaves on the ground, which made for some fun shots. It turned out that it snowed a week later and all the leaves on the ground and still on the trees got soggy and brown. No […]