Last month I went to Iceland with my dad. We had traveled quite a bit together when I was growing up. This was our first time traveling out of the country together in 25 years. After a five hour too hot and semi-restless fully booked flight, we arrived in the darkness to the airport just outside […]
We’re published! South Magazine picked up our collaborative article about Jill’s life and works and published it in the Feb 2015 issue! We are excited see our idea go from concept to print!
One of the best things that has happened since we have moved to Tybee is we now have overflowing circles of friends. Don’t get me wrong, we do have wonderful friends in Virginia, and I still love them very much. What is so different here is people live at a much slower pace of life. […]
After 24 years, you would think that planning a surprise getaway would next to impossible. He did it anyways, and completely surprised me. It took whole team of accomplices to make it happen. Our girls packed a bag for me and did a pretty good job, making sure my makeup bag and hair products and […]
I have exciting news to share! I had entered a contest in January with South Magazine. It was for the title of “South’s Greatest Photographer” I called on my family, friends, fans and clients to vote for me and I got great response from all of you. The voting was not the final decision, and […]
I was a stay at home mom with five kids and a dream. The spare bedroom became my playground AKA “office”. It was where I would create. Early morning hours, after nursing the baby, I would learn to finish an image in Photoshop, teach myself a new software system, read a marketing article, communicate with […]
You just never know what a day will bring. Twenty five years ago this week, I attended a christian rock concert where I first saw the man that I would marry and spend the rest of my life with. I was taking some darkroom photography classes at Northern Virginia community college, working on an independent […]
Life mentor. What face comes to mind when you hear those words? I see several. But one in particular takes me back to when I was 17. Already passionate for photography, I had just set up my first dark room and was snapping pictures all of the time. I met professional fine art photographer, […]
Turning the pages I fantasized about the life that the author described. Communing with family and friends. Finding life in each day working and playing in community. I found this book in a small local book store in Mystic CT when I was visiting my oldest son. This was two nights before hurricane Irene was […]
Life was a struggle for me only two years ago. We had just gotten through the worst winter of our life. And I had thought the two before it were the worst. Swearing I would never stay in Virginia during the winter again, I found myself doing just that. Deciding to leave behind the house […]