Hello All! I have received many emails and phone calls to ascertain if I am:

1. Still alive
2. Still capturing weddings & families

YES! to all of the above. To say that life has been incredibly crazy this past year is an understatement. In the last year I have photographed over thirty weddings and at least two dozen families, NONE of which have been blogged (obviously). Suffice to say that in the midst of the busy-ness, blogging has taken an absolute backseat to everything else. (It doesn’t help that I’m in the 4th year of a doctoral program and preparing to move for my residency next summer.)

Please do continue to email and call with your photography needs; as always, I am honored to be asked to capture such special people.

It was a humid early fall Saturday morning in Chicago with thunderstorms approaching and a To-Do list with several non-critical items that I planned to procrastinate on by watching whatever TV series I was currently addicted to on Netflix Instant.  My dear friend Molly had recently moved to Texas with her family and we were both wishing that we could spend our Saturday together like we used to do when we didn’t live so many states apart. I can’t recall who suggested it first but within 3 hours I was headed to the airport having found a killer last-minute deal on a flight to Austin. And so commenced my 48 hour, spur-of-the-moment weekend trip to Texas. Yeehaw!

Having recently moved, their house was still being unpacked with furniture to arrange and tear the plastic off of. Before they found the perfect place for their new sofa, we decided to have a mini-shoot on the front lawn as the sun went down.

Suffice to say I love this family AND their spontaneous hospitality.

A family is a group of persons who are bonded together, sharing love, tears, and laughter, and around whom you can be at your best and your worst. It defies blood ties and even last names.  In the case of this family, they crossed continents to become complete.  Gibson had been home for just a week or two when I had the honor of capturing this family, but it was ever so clear that he was very much, well, home. Right where he was meant to be.

I love it.

A typical blog post shows only a handful of my favorites from any given portrait session or wedding.  In the case of the Lundgren family, I wanted to share the full story with you.

Enjoy it here.

I love this family.

The End.

You may recall this family from here and here.  Nearly a year later they are still as sweet and gorgeous as ever. More to come!