The rose garden at Dow Gardens is one of my favorite places to take pictures in the whole city of Midland. It’s therapeutic for me to do so. The light there is the best just as the sun is setting, and there is always such an array of roses just waiting for me to capture them….
One of the things I love most about doing senior sessions at Dow Gardens is all the variety they have there for photo sessions. There are barns, grassy hills, and beautiful gardens, all of which make for some stunning portraits. I’m surprised I had never used the green barn doors in my pictures before! One…
It was the most gorgeous summer evening a couple of weeks ago when I took Abby’s pictures. When it comes to summer, Michigan does it right. Sometimes I think it’s because our winters here are just so. dang. long. But once summer rolls in I begin to believe it’s more than that. The greenery, the…
Meet Anna. She and her family are from Brazil. I have a special place in my heart for the country of Brazil, not because I’ve ever been there, but because my husband served a mission for our church there for two years before we were married. He talks of his time there often, and his…
When everything around you is in bloom, you can’t but feel the anticipation of something beautiful about to happen. That’s what spring does every year for me. It’s like all winter long we’ve been waiting. And waiting. And WAITING. And then FINALLY it’s spring, and it’s like the whole earth feels the need to celebrate…
[…] with practically all flowers, there are two things I always love to do when photographing them: Freelens and use my macro lens. This time was no exception. There’s something about freelensing that […]