Do you have specific photos that you’ve taken that you just love? Perhaps you knew in the moment the shutter clicked that you had made a great photograph. Maybe your heart leapt when you saw it appear on your computer during download. It could have even been an accident. There are a few frames of mine that are favorites – something about them just speaks to my soul. The photograph …
A few days ago, Erica posted about our morning at the Tidal Basin looking at the cherry blossom trees in full bloom. While Erica snapped away, I shot some video clips on my iPhone 5s and gave the slow motion feature a whirl. It’s amazing what you can capture with a device you carry in your pocket, and I often forget I have these tools on me at all times. …
Dave and I went for a long walk through the cherry blossoms this morning before work. We did this last year during peak bloom and enjoyed it so much we decided to make it a tradition. The cherry blossoms really do live up to all of hype – the pink trees truly are breathtaking. We walked through the National Mall at golden hour and sipped coffee as we strolled through …
I am a believer in printing photos. Why? Photographs are meant to be tangible, physical representations of memories. They are meant to document moments and keep record of our lives. They are meant to be a legacy and an heirloom to pass on to future generations. In my opinion photographs are not being used properly when they are just sitting archived on hard drives. I put a lot of time …
Dave and I are huge fans of adoption. We see the act of taking a child into your family as your own as such a beautiful picture of our faith, and we love celebrating with adoptive families. We have so much enjoyed walking through the adoption process with our dear friends the Yost family. We have had a front row seat to the up’s and down’s of their adoption process …
There are so many things that I love about living smack dab in the middle of a major city. I love the noise, the diversity, the walkability – so many things. However, after a few months of seeing only concrete this Michigan-girl starts to miss trees and fresh air. I don’t often recognize how much I am missing nature until I am driving away from District, but when I’ve driven …
Our nephew, Owen, turned one this week. Can you believe that it has already been a year since he was this little newborn? Crazy. Dave drove up to Philly to attend his adorable First Birthday Party over the weekend. He took these photos for me so I could pretend that I was able to go to the party. Didn’t my sister-in-law do such a great job with the The Very …
I had the realization yesterday that we have now finished 25% of 2014. What?? I don’t know where the last three months went! When I reviewed my 2013 goals at the end of last year I saw that I hadn’t accomplished all of things I’s set out to. In fact, I was even surprised at the goals I’d written down – I’d completely forgotten about some of them! It was …
So many images of our daily life are snapped quickly and conveniently with our phones. Someday I hope to get better at chronicling our day-to-day life with this blog, but for now, I have my iphone photos. Get ready for some serious randomness folks. Watching the fabulous Tiffany Thompson music do her thing. After growing up in Michigan, Washington DC’s mild winters feel like the tropics.I love reading on an …
Since my lovely wife so wonderfully photographed all of my Christmas gifts (preventing me from using any of them), I felt obligated to share them with the world. Enjoy this collection of odd gadgets and trinkets that I can only describe as camping artist meets classy mechanic. Wrench set, socks, camping cups, badger shaving brush and razor, Stanley flask, stormproof matches, mechanical pencils, carpenters ruler, lighter, Magic Mouse, eyewear gift …