Baby Zea: Martha’s Vineyard Home Birth
Every birth I attend is a special one to me, as each new life is a miracle - but all of the firsts are always extra special.
Baby-Friendly Project Revisited
I love the privilege of getting to meet babies within their first day or two of life. and I am honored to be invited into your space.
My Favorite Things 2023
For the last few years, I’ve run a contest on my Facebook page to share some of my favorite images of the year and to celebrate the love and connection I try to capture in every session. This year, I made a video of some of the highlights!
Dads Need Skin-to-Skin Too
I have always found something so sweet in the juxtaposition of newborn baby on their father’s chest. The tenderness, the power. The meeting of that new person at last and the oxytocin flood that holding them can give you.
Baby Imogen: A Martha's Vineyard Baby
You will never forget the first moment you met your baby, but photos help you remember all of the rest of your birth story.
Nicole and Alvaro: An Edgartown Elopement
Not only is the Edgartown Lighthouse a great place to get engaged on Martha’s Vineyard and a great place for family photos, it’s also an ideal spot for your Edgartown elopement.
Phil and Katie: A Jaws Proposal
Martha’s Vineyard is a very popular place to get engaged - whether you’ve only visited once or whether you are generational visitors, it’s an easy place to fall in love with and then to want to make permanent your own love.
When Phil reached out to me about doing a Jaws-related proposal, I knew his reason for choosing Martha’s Vineyard as the engagement spot was a little different. I consider it an important part of what I do when I photograph proposals to help the proposer craft their moment to fit both the vibe of their relationship, and the meaning and significance of the occasion.
Newborn Photography: The Squishiest Days
Many new parents are ambivalent or undecided about having photos done - and it is a commitment, to get out of the house within those earliest days when night and day have been jumbled and you’re different people. But no one ever regrets doing newborn photos.
Martha's Vineyard Proposals: Edgartown Lighthouse Edition
I don’t know if Edgartown Lighthouse is THE most popular spot for proposals, but it’s definitely one of the most-requested spots.
The Mammal Celebration Continues: Maternity Photos on Martha's Vineyard
You might know that I love photographing newborn babies. And I love photographing birth. But I also love photographing before all of that - those days when your body is hosting another body, a mammalian miracle that is both profound and astonishing.
Many new parents-to-be that I meet aren’t sure about having maternity photos done.
Now You're the Big Kid: Newborn Siblings
I know when my own kiddo found out a new baby was on the way, there were the typical excitement/nonchalance/dimissal/excitement phases, followed by - after second kiddo’s actual arrival - even more typical phases of excitement/sorrow/non-plussed avoidance/nostalgia. But I do know that to see the little ones I love most in the world loving each other is the truest bliss and satisfaction in my heart
Newborn Smiles: A Study in Adorableness
Every new parent who has held a newborn baby sleeping in your arms has marveled at the quick smles that pass over their face. Gas or unregulated nervous system or whatever the cause, a newborn smile is a wondrous thing.
Baby-Friendly Photo Project
I have been helping MV Hospital update their wall of new parents images as part of their baby-friendly initiative.
Wool is Another Word for Love
I have several creative outlets - when I was younger, it was visual art, through to poetry, into photography, and always with an impulse to be craftsy and also to try to make things myself instead of buy them.
So this hobby of felting became a big part of my creative process for my newborn photography.
hashtag capturethejourney redux
One of the things that I often think about is how photography is a tool to document and capture time as it passes, a method to freeze what spools inexorably on in one direction away from us. The transformation over that 12 months of long days and the shortest year is the most dramatic and it’s one of my favorite series to #capturethejourney.
2023 Baby Boom: Newborns of Martha's Vineyard
I believe that newborn photography is the best job I can have and I am so thrilled and honored to get to meet your new baby and help you capture these days with images that you will treasure. Because your newborn baby is never going to get any smaller. Because you will forget these so long days in the so short years.
My Favorite Things 2022
For the last two years, I’ve run a contest on my Facebook page to share some of my favorite images of the year and to celebrate the love and connection I try to capture in every session
Top 5 Martha's Vineyard Family Photo Locations
As a Martha’s Vineyard-born baby, raised in the halcyon days of local wandering, I know this Island well. And, while it’s almost impossible to choose a spot for your family photos that isn’t scenic, there are a few favorite locations I like to recommend for your family photo session - and, because the light is always changing, no spot is ever identical even from one day to the next, so there is also a great deal of built-in variety.
When Should You Get Newborn Photos Done? Top Tips For The Best Session
You’re having a baby on Martha’s Vineyard and you’re thinking about newborn photos to capture these fleeting days? Newborn photography is my specialty and my passion (along with birth) and I welcome the opportunity and honor to meet your baby in their first days and weeks of life.
The conventional wisdom around ideal timing for a newborn session is that having your session within the first two weeks after birth is ideal, but although that is the ideal, it is not the rule at all.
Your Children Will Thank You Part 3: Why Yearly Family Photos Matter
In this installment, I suggest that making a commitment for yearly family photos is one of the most important things you can do as a family.