Mary + Lewis

You would be lucky to know Mary and Lewis.

 They love and treasure their family and friends without limits and i sense this day was as much about those people as it was about themselves. 

They do all this without effort or a second thought, it is who they are, and I am privileged to be called their friend and to have been there on that day.

Here is their beautiful, rustic garden wedding (with no rain).

New Year

Here i am on the 1st of January looking back into the past for some badly needed inspiration. 2011 took it out of me, in many ways. 

I have never done much with these old shots from my trips to America in 2004 & 2006, my camera sucked (although at the time i was probably pretty impressed), i had a Pentax Mz50 film camera with a lens that is not worth remembering. I had little knowledge of how to use a camera, and less about light. Looking back now they are ordinary but retro and grainy and i am surprised at what i could do with not much. 

I have always had the opinion that a good photographer could use anything and still make something of it. So while a camera update is needed, here is to being a good wife, mother and photographer with whatever i have this year.

 Happy New Year!

{New York, San Francisco, Washington State all over the place and California}