A Mother's Day Gift | Salem OR Teen Photography

These Young Men made a hilarious cd for the all the mothers of their congregation. This was the front and back of the cd case.

Nick + Megan Engagements

After a day of rain, miraculously it stopped and the sun even came out for some great engagement pictures for Nick and Megan.
Here's a small sample of the fun images we got. Congratulations Nick and Megan! Thanks for a fun evening!

Snowy Forest | Landscape Photography

A snowy Willamette National Forest in the Oregon Cascade mountain range.


Available for purchase here in my Winter Scenes Gallery.

The Christmas Tree

I know this is behind the times, but I love some of the pictures I got of my boys around the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve.
Plus I always feel the need to get a shot of Santa's cookies!

Merry Christmas!

From my family to yours, have a very merry Christmas!

Brown Family | Salem OR Family Photography

I met with the Brown family for pictures on a beautifully sunny, if chilly, afternoon. Here's a selection of the great photographs we got.

Morning Frost | Fine Art Photography

We've had a lot of sunny frosty mornings around here lately and I love it. I will absolutely take the sunny cold over the raining grey that's a little warmer any day. Here's an image I took early on in this stretch of weather we've had since we really don't have any color rich leaves lying around anymore.


Purchas this print HERE in my Nature Gallery.

P Family | Salem OR Family Photography

I love holiday mini shoots! I think kids like family photography in mini form too! Check out the great smiles on this family's recent mini shoot.







Since they're a growing family, we set up a few of these shots to celebrate the new Mr. too.



I loved these pictures and think either would make a super fun picture to use on a Christmas card.

For the Love of Fall | Fine Art Photography

I love the fall colors, and now all the beautiful leaves have fallen, but I wanted to share this great picture. I was capturing some of the lovely fall colors when I noticed something... and when I zoomed in with my camera, I knew I had to get a closer look. I had to find my way around some shrubbery into an area I'm pretty sure was off limits, but it was well worth it for what I found. A lovely little heart in this bright yellow leaf with the perfect background of the firey red orange leaf behind it.


This is a beautifully perfect way to show you love fall! This print can be purchased HERE in my Nature Gallery.

Smith Family | Salem OR Family Photography

I had a great time with the Smith family in the beautiful fall colors. The kids were bribed with a trip to the carosel after if they were good, but honestly I don't think that was even needed, they were so great! Either way they definitely earned their reward!

Ghost Toast

I thought of one more new Halloween food idea on my own, and I think that's my limit... perhaps for a few years even. Anything else I do this year (and future years?) will be a repeat or an idea found online.

Of course, this was an easy one: french toast + ghost cookie cutter = Ghost Toast. The kids wanted other Halloween shapes after their intial ghosts, but of course it's all about the name.



For a clean display and to make my white ghosts stand out on my white plate, I syruped the plate
then added the pre-sugared ghosts on top to keep the white sugar out of the syrup background.

Spider Soup

Halloween means a few "spooky dinners" for my kids and this year I actually came up with a new one all on my own!

Spider Soup
We have many variations of "nacho soup" in our family, nacho being the magic word to get the kids to eat any Mexican-esque soup, or basically anything with beans of some sort in it, from white bean to black. For this one I went with a bloody (tomato) base with maggots (rice) and flys and beetles (black beans) stuck under a big spiders web (sour cream with milk to thin for piping on) and a great big spider on top. I cut the spider out myself from tortillas and used Halloween cookie cutters to make additional spooky homemade tortilla chips. Cheese is an important part of any "nacho" soup but since I wanted to see the maggots and bugs and wanted a flat surface for the web, I went with a slice in the middle instead of shredding it on top.