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daily life

Second grade started today with new faces and a change of uniform. It is so hard to leave the friends we had at her ex-school, but this is the right thing for Gemma. We thought we needed structure, but now we need to let her spirit grow free!   Photos taken with my gorgeous little [...]

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I think this camera needs a name…I am leaning towards Minx. Or Trixie. Not sure yet. Our morning looked like this through her eyes… The camera arrived with the mail yesterday so I have not had a chance to give it a proper play beyond charging the battery and adding my own SD card, but [...]

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It is true, I have an Android phone and still post some of my “phone-tos” to Instagram. The reason I do this is, for over a year now the majority of my phone shots went into a Facebook album where no one but friends could see them and no prints or magnets or books or fun things [...]

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Swim Tired

by sesame on January 23, 2012

Summer vacation mornings of slow breakfasts and extended jammie wearing is almost over. School starts up again in just over a week. I am ready and also not ready. This year I feel like I got to the edge of acceptance that hot weather playtime means January, but I still hesitated. I have not planned [...]

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I started the day with a phone call to my mom which always makes me feel like I might as well be living on the moon. There was the inevitable lag that threw our rhythm of conversation off and the wind made the connection practically useless anyway. Desperate to just be able to catch up with my [...]

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Let me come right out and say it…I blame The Secret. I am all for the power of positive thinking, but only when there is some honest work attached. Sitting on my couch mentally emitting fabulous photography thoughts is not going to get me anywhere. It is not going to get me a new camera [...]

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It really is kind of hard to ride the momentum of the New Year’s great intentions and get back to work with a bang when there are three children not-so-silently staring me down from the other side of my desk as I try to type this. While I might really be eager to knock things [...]

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10 on 10 :: my first

by sesame on January 10, 2012

This year I am joining some wonderful photographers in a blog series that is all about photographing life as it happens on one day. The project is called 10 on 10 and this post is my first go. 10 lines of images posted on the 10th of the month. Every month. These were from camping [...]

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Exactly two years ago, Peta and I had a book deal and also absolutely no idea what we were in for. We announced our big idea and got to work. It was a case of me actually getting a contract before I had time to think better of it. Had I taken a moment to [...]

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Back and showered and all ready for 2012

by sesame on January 2, 2012

more camping photos to come. here is just one of the natural born camper. it isn’t fair, she just became more beautiful the dirtier she got. many more, pinky swear, but tomorrow I need to get back to work and finish up some client things.

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