This is an adaptation of my weekly newsletter, Adventures Big & Small. If you want to receive emails like these, click here to subscribe. We’re more than halfway through nearly two weeks visiting the island where my wife and I grew up. We come here often, but this is our longest stay in years. I’ve…
This is an adaptation of my weekly newsletter, Adventures Big & Small. If you want to receive emails like these, click here to subscribe. Last Friday I joined a small group of talented family photographers for our first of (hopefully) many book clubs. We are spending the first few months on a classic work, one…
This is an adaptation of my weekly newsletter, Adventures Big & Small. If you want to receive emails like these, click here to subscribe. I will be the first to admit that parenting has curbed my adventurous inclinations. It is really hard to find sequential days when everyone is free and no one is sick…
This is an adaptation of my weekly newsletter, Adventures Big & Small. If you want to receive emails like these, click here to subscribe. Our daughter is almost 18 months old. And aside from the feeling that time and toddlerhood are rapidly slipping through our fingers, I think a lot about how much fun we’re…
This is an adaptation of my weekly newsletter. If you want to receive emails like these, click here to subscribe. I skipped writing my newsletter last week and I almost did the same today. The truth is I’m feeling antsy. I want to get outside. But I wanted to share a photo from my newest…
I send a newsletter to my lovely email list every Sunday. I doubt anyone has ever wondered why Sunday. But there is a reason and I think you will appreciate it. Growing up, Sundays were for the beach. From as early as I have memory I remember packing the old canvas beach bag, the blue…
I do not remember taking this photo, but the moment it came back from the lab (shot on film), I knew it would be a favorite forever. I laugh out loud every time I look at it. It says so much about our life. So much that words could never tell you. Also, it speaks…
“Those who have one foot in the canoe, and one foot on the shore, are going to fall into the river.” – Native American Tuscarora Proverb It is Fall and this time of year family photographers tend to be promoting mini sessions with lots of language telling you that their calendar is almost full so you better…
“Life here feels physical, tangible, dirt-beneath-your-feet real. Putting myself behind the lens has a way of taking me out of the moment, and I usually don’t want to do that.” It is wild how much daily life in our little family has changed over the past two months. Moving will do that. My office used…
“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can.” – Beryl Markham, West With the Night Apparently, this is the only way Megan and…