Side Trip To Duluth Minnesota With The Family – Part 2

Lake Superior at night

We absolutely loved exploring Duluth and enjoyed the friendly locals. Even walking out at night felt safe, so I had the pleasure of photographing the harbor at night underneath a waxing moon.   The aerial lift bridge at Duluth Harbor on Lake Superior was fascinating. There are only two of these bridges in the world (the…

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Side Trip To Duluth Minnesota With The Family – Part 1

Lake Superior beach in Duluth, Minnesota

The kids and I have never been to Duluth before, but my honeys went once when he was a teenager.  It’s one of the top ranked cities in Minnesota and now I can appreciate why.  It was absolutely gorgeous with buildings dating back to the 1800s and unending views of Lake Superior. I learned that…

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Annual Fourth Of July Family Vacation In Minnesota

Every summer, my family makes the 1300+ mile drive up to northern Minnesota.  We normally stop overnight in St. Louis, grab a few gooey butter cakes and bottles of my favorite barbecue sauce and then head out early the next morning.  This time, we stopped just outside of the Twin Cities for a dinner with…

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I Need Coffee

We drove until almost midnight last night to get to my husband’s folks’ place on the lake in Northern Minnesota.  The farther north we drove, the lighter the sky got until 10:30ish when we were left in darkness.  We normally switch up every two hours, so I got the last two on small state highways. …

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Why Do You Chop Off Their Heads?

I hear that question sometimes.   Or I see comments on facebook, stating that, “I can’t see anything above his nose.” These questions and comments make me smile.  The photographs aren’t accidents.  And they’re some of my favorites.   They take the focus off the person (or people) as a whole and put it on the moment in time.  And…

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An Image Box – Delivered

Large image box surrounded by matted prints and portraits

This family was so much fun when I met them on Easter morning.  Besides documenting the morning that their six month old twins got christened, it was an opportunity to make family portraits that Sarah knew she wanted to give as Mother’s Day gifts.  My image box was perfect for this because all of the photographs…

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Hilton Head Birthday Weekend – Part 2

Kids jumping waves in Hilton Head

As soon as we got into town, we checked into our room, dropped our bags and headed for the beach. We couldn’t wait to see the ocean. And only the girl child stopped on the tree long enough to pose for a photograph. I’m told she looks like me, but I don’t see it. There…

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High School Senior Photographs {Roswell, GA}

High school senior boy in woods with glasses and bow tie

I met H late one afternoon a couple of weeks ago to make his senior photographs.  We hiked some major hills through the woods to get to the ruins of an old paper mill. We talked about trips to Missouri and Minnesota. How we have family in both and the foods that are necessary to…

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Hilton Head Birthday Weekend – Part 1

Sunrise on Hilton Head beach

We had plans to go away for the weekend and visit friends. They fell through at the last minute, but then a sweet deal fell into our laps and the morning of a roadtrip…we decided to go to Hilton Head, South Carolina.  Todd went decades ago, but I’ve never been.  It’s been close to three…

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