In-home newborn sessions
Now that my newborn studio is finished, I only offer in-home lifestyle sessions. For families looking for posed newborn sessions, I invite you to my cozy studio in Edgartown.
Both a lifestyle and a posed session capture your baby at their smallest - the difference between the two is really an aesthetic preference.
carly and brandon: oak bluffs gazebo wedding
In a summer of drought and seemingly endless perfect Vineyard beach days, clouds were hard to come by. On the day of this mid-morning July wedding at the Ocean Park Gazebo in Oak Bluffs, the forecast called for overcast - and we were all thrilled.
Your Children Will Thank You Part 2: How to Print Your Family Photos
Most of my photography clients on Martha’s Vineyard - whether family, newborn, or wedding - want to print their images, but one question that I often get asked is, where should I get them printed? It is still one of my greatest joys to see my photographs up on client walls and so one of the things that I want to help you with is the best way to print for lasting quality and impact.
Maternity, maternal, de maternidad, de maternité, Mutterschafts-, 妊婦の....
If there’s one thing I know, it’s that babies will still be born. And maternity photos are still worth it. Do you remember your body when it hosted another body?
Why two photographers are better than one...
When you have a main photographer and a “second shooter” for your wedding, you get two different perspectives and two different eyes for two styles in your photographs.
Your Children Will Thank You: Why Prints Matter
When you think about your life, which photographs are the best images that capture your history, that stand in for your memories when memory fades? If you’re not sure, this blog post is for you.
I might be the photographer for you if...
You’ve looked at my work, you’ve read my clients’ testimonials, but you’re still wondering if I’m the right fit for your photography needs?
Here are the top 5 reasons I might be the photographer for you…
Thinking about birth photography? How and why to hire a birth photographer...
As we approach the coming anniversary of my older daughter’s Birth Day, I’ve been thinking again about the value and importance of birth photography.
My Favorite Things 2021
Last year I started an end-of-the-year contest to vote on the favorite of my favorites from 2020, and I continued the fun this year on my Facebook page to say goodbye to 2021 and to celebrate the love and connection I try to capture in every session.
Viewers voted on their own favorite photo, but I’ve collected here a few of my own from 2021.
#CapturetheJourney: Milestones of the first year
From chunky loaf to walking monkey, the first year of life holds extraordinary changes for a baby.
Newborn Photography: Which Style is Right for You?
I love love love newborn photography. It is such an honor to meet these tiny people when they are so fresh and squishy and to be invited to crash your new baby party for a few hours. I want to explain a little bit about the two main types of newborn sessions: so-called “lifestyle” and “posed”.
With this ring...
As a wedding photographer on Martha’s Vineyard, one of my favorite parts of photographing a wedding is when I ask the newly-married couple if I can borrow their rings for a few minutes. I always look for some significant element of a couple’s story and use that to frame your rings.
Fresh 48 Sessions: Meeting Your Baby
A so-called “Fresh 48” shoot happens typically within the first two days (or 48 hours) of life - often while baby and parents are still in the hospital getting to know each other. I love these sessions because it is an opportunity to capture all the little details of a new baby, often before they’ve even fully opened their eyes or dried off their heads.
Hanna and Michael: A Farm Neck Wedding, Martha's Vineyard
A September wedding on Martha’s Vineyard doesn’t get much more perfect. For Hanna and Michael, her parent’s summer home on the Lagoon was the meaningful location to start the celebration
Newborn photography: because your baby never gets any smaller
I remember when my first daughter - now a kindergartener, tall and rangy as a colt - was born, I felt the weight of human clichés that suddenly became absolute deepest human truth. How you are not possibly “ready” for this new and oh-so-needy lumpish thing to utterly dismantle your world.
Julianne and Rob: Vanderhoop Homestead, Martha's Vineyard Wedding
One of my most important jobs as your wedding photographer is understanding the role that photographs play, how photographs shape and contain memories when actual memory fades - and I love to curate the story of your day for generations to come.
Family Photography Style Guide (AKA What Should We Wear??)
One of the most common questions that families ask me when we are planning their photo session is about what to wear. My advice is that, well, it depends, but a major difference between a casual snapshot and an heirloom photo you want to hang on the wall for generations often comes down to the clothes that you choose to wear.
Erin and Josh: An Atria Wedding in August
For Erin and Josh, their tale is as old as covid: a large celebration was planned pre-pandemic, and then changed to a small celebration, before finally returned to a large celebration of friends and family gathered together (mostly to party) after the official marriage already happened.
Mœmpowered: The Mammal Body Celebration
Inspired by the 4th Trimester Bodies Project, Mœmpowered Sessions was a photo project to celebrate moms and the power of our bodies, to show off the work that we have done and continue to do and the diversity that we live within.
A Lamb is Born: Birth Photography of Another Kind
I love photographing birth. It’s my favorite genre. So you can imagine my sorrow with most hospitals not allowing more than just one accompanying person right now and you can imagine my longing to shoot something being born. That’s why February is extra exciting at Slough Farm: the ewes are lambing!