I managed to cull, hand edit, and deliver over 13,000 digital images to my clients this year! So thankful for all the love and light and beauty. What a year! Here's to 2023!

A few months back, I photographed the Calahan family at their historic home in Shreveport at 305 Forest Avenue. They shared the story of this sweet spot on the earth where northwest Louisiana magnolia trees meet Spanish Colonial Revival style stucco and I was rapt. The intersection of place and story sends us the world over. We gawk at brown histo...

No news can be good news. Perhaps a gubernatorial visit means there's been a disaster or an emergency, but yesterday when John Bel Edwards visited Plain Dealing, LA, it was all for good. Good because a Louisiana governor hasn't visited the small town since 1949. Good because he was coming to celebrate a groundbreaking of Teal Jones' sawmill project...

"What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think- the gratitude of the ten-year-old who wakes to her own energy and the brisk challenge of the world. You thought you knew the place and all the routines, but you see you hadn't known. Whole stacks at the library held books devoted to things you knew nothing a...

What if there was a small town meeting place where people could not only get a world class cup of coffee but also a pep talk? What if it had space for anyone and everyone to come to gather and sit on porches and visit face to face? What if it had a dedicated, reservable area for creative thinkers to come together and collaborate over the...