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The Solomon family ~ portrait

” Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.” ~ Mary Oliver The Solomons asked me to come to their home for an afternoon portrait. What a pleasure! A friend had photographed their wedding and they wanted more images to remember their day. Their adorable and jubilant daughter joined in the…

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Kendall ~ a portrait

Every so often I meet someone who I feel I’ve always known. We introduce ourselves and then begin where we finished. Thishappened when I met Kendall Brown of Eclatante Design at a beach wedding last summer. And so I did what I do. I went to her mother’s home to photograph love.

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The St. Vincent’s Center ~ NACE volunteers making a difference

Neon cotton candy coated little lips. Hundreds of smiles and the latest dance moves decorated the gym. For 10 years members of the Baltimore National Association of Catering Executives (NACE) have brought ketchup and snowballs, bubbles and brownies to the St. Vincent’s Center in Timonium, MD. This year was no different as 45 NACE volunteers…

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Of Lavender Tutus and Sour Cherries ~ a summer solstice

On the longest day of the year, there’s a party…music, children, hula hoops, neighbors, friends and cobbler. Each cobbler is a three hour process. She makes two, one with sour cherries picked from the tree in her front yard, the other with rhubarb from the farmer’s market. I am entranced by the child in the…

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