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Make A Change Monday VI

Make A Change Monday VI

Wear Less Makeup This has nothing to do with a personal preference but just the fact that cosmetics often contain potentially harmful ingredients.  Ingredients such as formaldehyde, lead acetate, phthalates and many of these contain derivatives of petroleum.  Up to 200 chemicals are exposed to the average woman on a daily

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Portrait Session with Maggie

Portrait Session with Maggie

A week or so back I had an amazing portrait session with Maggie Kreitlow.  She has been modeling for about 6 years and is a pretty nice lady. I was really looking forward to experimenting with some new films that I haven’t worked with to often.  One being the Fuji Reala 100 which I pushed about two stops to get some

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Make A Change Monday V

Make A Change Monday V

Composting non-recyclable cardboard and paper I have never taken this one all to seriously but hopefully I can follow through this year.  I am not completely sure how as of yet and will get all the details figured out shortly.  But the plan is adding various types of non-recyclable paper and cardboard( such as tissues and egg

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The Importance of Personal Art

The Importance of Personal Art

As a wedding photographers, portrait photographer, commercial photographer, or whatever we may be we sometimes forget why we got into this. Or at least why I got into it.  Making art for myself always revives my excitement for photography.  In the past couple months I have been undergoing a transformation back into film and

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Engagements / Make a change Monday IV

Engagements / Make a change Monday IV

This week is pretty exciting! Two subjects in one post!  I will start with Make a change Monday. Buy fair-trade coffee Workers on these conventional coffee farms must often meet a harvesting quota, if they don’t, they don’t get paid, forcing them to bring on family members for help including their children. Since

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Donovan on Fuji Pro 400h

Donovan on Fuji Pro 400h

I have photographed Donovan probably on 3-4 separate occasions and we always have a decent time and get great photos.  This is the first time I photographed her on film.  I am pretty happy with the results although I wasn’t as happy about the super overcast day but I think we made it work, at least I hope we did!?! 

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