Category Archives: Documentary photography
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Winning isn’t everything and I have learned a whole heck of a lot more from failures than successes in photography, but it sure does feel good to be recognized. For years, I have followed Kirsten Lewis Bethman and Jenna Shouldice as leaders in the genre of documentary family photography, two women who have raised the…
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As July is quickly coming to a close, summer feels like it’s flying by in a blink, but we’ve also packed an incredible amount of life into the past few weeks. Life can be a wild ride, but none wilder than summers spent shuffling back and forth to baseball, beach weekends with family, birthday celebrations,…
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The month of May on the beaches of New Jersey represents that weird shoulder season between early (aka cold) spring and summer. The combination of unpredictable weather, where one day is beach weather and the next is the second coming of winter with a thunder storm settled in between, and the inconvenience of the compulsory…
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I have always wanted to visit Morocco. Dave says this sounds ridiculous (and he’s probably right) but all relates back to Epcot Morocco always being my favorite in the World Showcase at Disney World in Orlando. When I was a kid, I remember saving my trip money and buying a necklace there and I still…