Taking senior pictures in Leesburg is a great idea for seniors who want some interesting architectural features but who don’t want to drive down to old town Alexandria or Georgetown! Leesburg has a number of historic buildings in the downtown area, with colorful doors and interesting walls. One of my favorite doors is the red…
As someone who leans towards melancholy, I recently discovered that incorporating 5 minute joy breaks into my day helps me nurture a sense of peace and happiness within. Life has its ups and its downs, and it’s difficult for many of us to ignore or turn our backs on the negative. We may be told…
Before you read further, please take a moment to look at this short 1 minute video on YouTube. Mindful Photography Step One: Learn to See This famous selective attention test illustrates our brain’s effectiveness at ignoring information that our it perceives as irrelevant to the task at hand (or to our safety). Our brains have…
Build a second brain sounds catchy, but what does it actually mean? It means means freeing up our short term and long term memory by creating a system to capture meaningful information in a way that allows our future selves to easily retrieve and work with it. Decades ago, we got away with a filing…
I recently attended a workshop hosted by the personable and energetic Khy Hy of Rad Reads, where he talked about four types of work: $10 work, $100 work, $1000 work, and 10K work. These types of work fall along a matrix with leverage (high and low) on the Y axis and skill (high and low)…
These senior college students from George Mason University decided to celebrate their graduation with senior pictures at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. It’s a fantastic place for a graduation photoshoot! Sure parking may be a little inconvenient (the girls took Uber), there may be a lot of people (and photographers) jockeying for position at…
Occasionally my senior clients introduce me to new venues for Virginia senior portraits, like Airlie House and Farm in Warrenton. It is truly an exquisite location for senior pictures. Airlie is a lovely jewel set into Virginia’s rolling countryside just outside of Warrenton, Virginia. It’s made up of seven different buildings scattered around the grounds,…
The Konmari Method is Marie Kondo’s strategy for cleaning your spaces and bringing life-changing magic to your life. Sounds good to me! A clean, organized environment can be very beneficial for invoking a sense of calm and purpose before beginning a project or task. I’m a bit of a challenge, however, as I’m a…
Interstitial Journaling, a combination of time-tracking and journaling, is an excellent to develop awareness about how you spend your time. And that awareness can lead to some really positive changes in behavior. WHY DO INTERSTITIAL JOURNALING? As someone who has overcommitted to projects and tasks my entire life, I’m always on the look out for…
So you love flowers but you’re finding it hard to capture the beauty of the flowers when you photograph them? I’ve got you covered! Below are my top five tips for better photos of flowers outdoors, in gardens and in nature. BTW I took the following photographs at the McKee-Beshers Wildlife Management Area in Maryland….