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on August 1, 2019 at 10:27 am ×
Check out this new photography tips blog post from me for my friends at Fracture. This one is all about tips on photographing youth sports, about capturing your little athlete’s biggest moments, and how sometimes you have to put the camera/phone down and simply watch with nothing but gnats and […]
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on March 25, 2018 at 8:00 pm ×
It’s often described as a tightrope but that’s not terribly accurate; there is no risk of falling off either side. This period of life, the immeasurable, undefinable, delicate space between childhood and young adulthood, is more akin to finding yourself in the middle of a meadow. It can be peaceful […]
Photos of Growing Up
on March 27, 2017 at 1:19 pm ×
Recently, I was asked, “Jeff, what’s your all-time favorite photo of your daughters?” Damn. As a photographer who takes a fair number of photos, some of them quite lovely, of his daughters, that’s an awfully difficult question to answer. If pressed, and thankfully I wasn’t by the questioner on the […]
Photos of Growing Up
on December 6, 2016 at 10:21 am ×
Taking photos of sleeping kids (or anyone really) can be super creepy so I don’t make a habit of doing it, but a while back my little girl drifted off to dreamland with Todd McHatton’s sentences, characters, imagination and zaniness on her mind. I had to document this moment, with […]
Photos of Growing Up
on November 18, 2016 at 9:55 am ×
Before we get into this photography tip, let me start by saying that I still take the photos that below, I will advise you not to take. This is because my wife still wants the straight-on shot of the famous thing(s) but I don’t linger in that mass of humanity […]
Photos of Growing Up
on August 26, 2016 at 11:47 am ×
In July I walked the length of the Hadrian’s Wall Trail in the north of England with 11 pals for charity. After we were finished but before my blisters had healed, my family hopped over the pond and we enjoyed a holiday in the U.K. To my surprise, because while […]
Photos of Growing Up
on May 9, 2016 at 2:56 pm ×
A few years ago I could basically only push down upon the button and now here I am winning an Iris Award for Best Photography in parent blogging at the 2016 Mom 2.0 Summit in Laguna Niguel, California. In my speech I thanked exactly no one. Here’s a paragraph to […]
Photos of Growing Up
on March 30, 2016 at 7:49 pm ×
Huge thanks to Kia for setting up my 12-year-old golf prodigy with a private lesson this month ahead of the Kia Classic LPGA Tournament. The problem is, despite the naturally beautiful swing, my oldest daughter doesn’t enjoy golfing. But man, look at that follow through. Scrumptious.