Printing my book.

Nothing says "I love you" like a 13x19 print. (And by "I love you" I mean, "Please let me add you to my client list.") 
   

5 year olds are way too smart

Had a photoshoot with a beautiful mother and her two girls yesterday. Toward the end of the shoot I let the 5 year old take a couple pics with my camera. These are the two pics. Nice right! What does it say about the quality of my work when a 5 year old can do it just as well, if not better? And yes, I did snap that camera out of her cute little hands as fast as I could. She was lucky she was so darn charming.

Garden

Lots of green in the garden this year with all this rain. And lots of bugs—caterpillars of all shapes and sizes, japanese beetles, flea beetles, earwigs, aphids, lily leaf beetles, leaf miners, cucumber beetles and more! I was getting a little cocky, thinking I knew so much about gardening... then bam! Bugs hit every nook and cranny in my garden this year alongside slugs, snails, mildew and wilt. Year 6 in the garden has definitely been my hardest. I can't imagine what a life of a farmer is like! Every day is a battle, especially if you're an organic gardener, I'm sure. I shouldn't complain though — I've got enough zucchini to build a small house.  
[ my garden on flickr ] 
    

RECENT WORK: Fitness Magazine

Here's Julianne, President of a wonderful non-profit, Cycle Kids. Look for her in the September issue of Fitness Magazine. To see more from this shoot, click here. 

New Work

Happy to report, no one got pooped on yesterday. It was a good day.
   

Photographers on Photography Interview

Alison McCreery of Photographers on Photography interviewed me recently.

 POP: Why did you decide to focus on kids? KL: Grown ups don’t like me. Well, that’s not entirely true, a couple do—my parents, and I'm not 100% sure of that even—but I’m okay with that. First of all, kids are way more fun than grown-ups. When was the last time an adult stopped playing with a toy to pick their nose right out in the open or when have you ever made a grown-up so happy they literally started jumping right in front of you? 

  

Click here to read the entire interview on POP. Be warned—you may feel like flying a kite afterward or giving someone you love a noogie. 

  

Inspiration

Follow this link to the beautiful and inspiring series, Where Children Sleep, by James Mollison. I promise, you will be moved by this series of photographs.

Quoted.

See now this is proof that not everything I say is crap. (I just hope my husband's reading this.)


If you're a photographer or an aspiring photographer, Rob Haggert's blog is a must-read. Follow this link.

Maine