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The emotions that are shared with a session of new parents bring back so many memories from the days when we were new parents, attentive to every movement, gasp and giggle.  Every day brought excitement as to what new discovery our new baby would find.

Today is the 24th birthday of my daughter Alexandra, I remember that first year as if it were yesterday.

Thanks Zach and Jen for celebrating your joy with us through portraiture!  Can’t wait to she how much she has grown for her 6 month session!

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LT

Loves social energy!

Elegant, intelligent and adventurous.

The life of the party!

Our Women’s Portrait Line, “Beautiful,” has been well-received.  Sessions like these force us to stretch our creative boundaries.  We spend a great deal of time talking with the women about what they find unique and beautiful within themselves and how they’d like to be portrayed.  Then the fun begins!

Our session with LT was so much fun!  LT has such a delightful personality and contagious laughter.  She was up for anything; even getting on the roof of her building for this spectacular view of the city!

What I enjoy about the black and white image is that there is such a visual contrast between the dark alley and her beautiful dress.  She expresses her beauty through the look of power and determination.  “Urban Chic” seemed to capture it all.

Black and White images rely solely on composition and emotion.  A good “picture” shows what a person looks like.  A great women’s portrait unveils not only her outer beauty, but more importantly her inner beauty, strength and character.

The goal of this project is to unveil a woman’s beauty and to honor it through fine portraiture.   We want the women involved in our project to feel confident and proud to share the images with those they love.  It is these people who truly know them and see that inner beauty.

There are many sides to all of us.  My challenge during these portrait sessions is to not only share a few of these exquisite moments from our time together.  Also, find a way to break the creative box that we as photographers find ourselves in once in a while, and allow the session to take on a whole new dimension from where it started.

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Urban Chic

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Seer of the beauty in life,

shy one moment, and radiant the next,

ability to see potential and has the strength to run with it.

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Success is known by so many ways, financial, fame, friends and family.  All are  great milestones, find your passion, what stirs your heart, what moves you and those you love and admire.  To succeed at anything you feel is important, takes more than skill and desire.  As Frank Lloyd Wright stated it, dedicate yourself and be ready to work, HARD.  Have a vision as to see what you want to see happen.

Vision,

Planning,

Educate yourself,

Ask yourself questions,

Be ready to answer your questions, the hard ones, take   time for solitude, listen/ be willing to change gears if need be.  But, drive your self hard, success that comes to easy, often leaves to easy.

Live will, give back  and do what you love.

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The Beauty is still there, right there for all to see.

When I create a portrait, it is my privilege and duty, to discover who the person that is in front of my camera.  Not only to bring out the beauty that they want to see but to unveil the beauty that those that love them see.

Is it a passion, a strength?  Quiet beauty?  A vision or a journey yet to be traveled.

When that beauty is revealed it is more than a simple picture, it becomes an art piece. Something you are proud to share, display and pass down to your children.

Allow yourself to be viewed as the beauty that you are.

My challenge to myself is to go beyond someones outer beauty, and find what lies within.  We all have or have had adversity in our lives, the beauty is often revealed in how we overcome these adversities, this is where the beauty often begins.

When my sister struggled with cancer I saw a beauty that she would never allow herself to see.  The outer her, was gone to her… She had lost her hair, even though she had great wigs, and quite frankly I could rarely tell what was her real hair and what was her wig.  The beauty that she possessed was the fight in her the determination to make those around her better people for knowing her.  It wasn’t her goal it was what came naturally.

As she was fighting desperately with cancer,  she would wake up every morning, do her devotional reading and then proceed to write encouraging letters to those she felt needed lifting up that day.

We all have life changing events, whether it’s the loss of a loved one, or even waking up one morning and finding a job has disappeared. Or the kids that you have worked so hard to raise are off to college or married.  Some of these events will take years to overcome and others it becomes a battle cry to not just survive but to achieve. To conquer.  To inspire others.  Beauty of this kind lies with in all of us.

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Reflective Heart

Artistic Soul, empathetic, loving,

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With eyes of joy and wisdom,

and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart
i carry it in my heart
—-E. E. Cummings

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noun \ˌme-tə-ˈmȯr-fə-səs\

Definition of METAMORPHOSIS

: a typically marked and more or less abrupt developmental change in the form or structure of an animal (as a butterfly or a frog) occurring subsequent to birth or hatching

ie: We have watched her metamorphosis from a shy schoolgirl into a self-confident businesswoman.

The decision to title this blog  METAMORPHOSIS, was not an easy one but it was a natural one,  the true art of portraiture is a collaboration with the heart and soul of both the person in front of the camera and the artist with the lens being able to grasp the change – the growth – the new confidence found at each stage – sometimes we as artists need to draw from within to pull it out and let it fly – and yes – we entice it out through the magic ability we’ve been given as photographers

The true portrait tells the viewer who the subject is without a word being spoken.  It opens the soul to the world.

A personality “unveiled”

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