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I met Madison and her family when I showed up to their house hours after her birth last summer. I’ve been documenting her growth every few months since June. Growth sessions, just like Year In The Life sessions make what I do so much more meaningful. You see, the reason I do what I do…

When I was little, we’re talking under the age of 10, my parents started buying disposable cameras for me when I took up an interest in photography. My dad is a hobbyist photographer, so I’ve always been around it. I have boxes and boxes of film that my mom would take to have developed for…

You Know that song “Seasons Of Love” from the movie Rent? Or the song “9986000 Minutes” from Michael Scott’s farewell? They’re all I can think about when I sit down to write about this year’s Year In The Life clients. All these tiny moments-the sips of coffee, diaper changes, grocery trips, and books read seem…

Sawyer Marie joined her family a few weeks before expected, spent some time in NICU, and made it home in time to celebrate her first Christmas with her family. I was going to document her first few hours in the hospital, but she had other plans, so we decided to save our session for home.…

The birth of a child is always a life changing experience. There is always a reason why they’re here. This family shared the reason for Wyatt’s presence with me and I knew other people would want to hear it too. This is his story: I wasn’t someone who saw myself with a house full of…

I was talking to a cousin of mine yesterday, who is due to bring her own sweet baby home soon, about how quickly life changes the minute your first baby is born. You go from living a life where you’re really only responsible for yourself to being responsible for keeping a tiny human alive in…

There are 14 years between Sally’s first and her last and it’s been almost as long since she experienced sending her first baby to kindergarten. Each of those experiences hold their own emotions and memories, but in some ways I feel that they’re the same. I drove to this house this morning as the sun…

We spend our mornings together now. We wake up together, have breakfast together, watch cartoons together, and do everything normal families do TOGETHER. In the morning. We’ve spent the majority of our 13 years together on completely opposite schedules. That, along with some other difficult situations, have made the last couple years of our marriage…