June 6, 2009
During these hot months of June and July while I have my daughters home with me for the summer and while the weather isn’t so friendly for outdoor portraits and weddings…
I will still be closely in touch with past clients to complete any open items, but I will not be generating new work these two months due to the time and attention involved.
I’ll be back in full-force soon! Thank you for your patience!
Carolyn
May 12, 2009
The photo below, taken on my first day with my first digital SLR camera in 2004, was just submitted to Laura Dillon’s Wall of Hope:
April 9, 2009
Kelly Ashworth, of Kelly Ashworth Design, has just announced a new line of baby announcements available for purchase on her Etsy site. Two of the sample cards feature babies I’ve photographed (with new names!).
{ Stars & Dots. Photo courtesy of Carolyn Wells Photography. }
{Retro Dots. Photo Courtesy of Carolyn Wells Photography.}
I LOVE these designs, and the prices are amazing! I might just have to have another baby so I can send out one of these cards myself.
And I hear she has more up her sleeve soon for Save the Dates… (not something I plan to do again…)
March 4, 2009
Sneak peak of more to come from this couple’s fun shoot:
loving this image, and this finish below just grows and grows on me. It’s a new feel for me to work with, and I’m liking it.
February 23, 2009
Again, probably a little old to be considered a newborn, but here’s another adorable, little baby! And I agree with his mom – Brody already looks like a little man. Oh, so cute.
I’m looking forward to watching these two grow up together!
February 17, 2009
We grabbed a scrumptious bite to eat at Pane Bianco (see a review on PHX Rail Food):
the lunch time equivalent of Pizzeria Bianco: authentic people, fresh, delicious food, and with frequent James Beard Award-Winning Chris Bianco sitings. If you haven’t tried either one yet, now is the time to do so before our influx of March visitors followed by our scorching summers… Mmm…dreaming of Pizzeria’s Spiedini, BiancoVerde, and a glass of red…
January 20, 2009
I was moved by the inauguration itself, by Obama’s speech, and especially by Elizabeth Alexander’s Inaugural Poem:
Praise song for the day.
Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each others’ eyes or not, about to speak or speaking. All about us is noise. All about us is noise and bramble, thorn and din, each one of our ancestors on our tongues. Someone is stitching up a hem, darning a hole in a uniform, patching a tire, repairing the things in need of repair.
Someone is trying to make music somewhere with a pair of wooden spoons on an oil drum with cello, boom box, harmonica, voice.
A woman and her son wait for the bus.
A farmer considers the changing sky; A teacher says, “Take out your pencils. Begin.”
We encounter each other in words, Words spiny or smooth, whispered or declaimed; Words to consider, reconsider.
We cross dirt roads and highways that mark the will of someone and then others who said, “I need to see what’s on the other side; I know there’s something better down the road.”
We need to find a place where we are safe; We walk into that which we cannot yet see.
Say it plain, that many have died for this day. Sing the names of the dead who brought us here, who laid the train tracks, raised the bridges, picked the cotton and the lettuce, built brick by brick the glittering edifices they would then keep clean and work inside of.
Praise song for struggle; praise song for the day. Praise song for every hand-lettered sign; The figuring it out at kitchen tables.
Some live by “Love thy neighbor as thy self.”
Others by “first do no harm,” or “take no more than you need.”
What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. Love with no need to preempt grievance.
In today’s sharp sparkle, this winter air, anything can be made, any sentence begun.
On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp — praise song for walking forward in that light.
January 5, 2009
I’m officially back in the office! Happy New Year to All!
December 2, 2008
I have a lot of blogging to catch up on… Here’s a start. Phoenix Bride and Groom magazine asked me to shoot the gorgeous reception setting for Accent with Flowers. It was a beautiful Indian wedding at the Four Seasons Resort. As I was shooting, I noticed that the wedding planner was Sonal Shah, a New York City event planner that I’ve been in contact with recently and that ends up in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area more than a few times each year for these gorgeous affairs. Here’s the shot that was chosen by Sonal to be printed 2′x3′ for a bridal show this weekend:
October 24, 2008
Little Ade’s mom, Heather, and I had a little trouble getting this newborn shoot scheduled, so it’s a older “newborn” shoot, definitely an adorable baby shoot from a few weeks ago… They grow so quickly! He doesn’t look like this anymore, so here’s a reminder 
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