• Weddings

    Laura and Donnie’s Hawai’i Paradise Wedding

    I first met Laura in June of 2008 when we were both working at Burt Hill.  I was just starting my second year of photographing weddings professionally, and was very happy to see that Laura was engaged.  Selfishly, when I met her, I thought that maybe I would be able to shoot her wedding someday. I got to know her well as a friend over the next few months, and realized that she was genuinely happy to be engaged and not really interested in the “whole wedding thing.”  And I knew that really wasn’t her style. When I took Laura and Don’s engagement photos at their home in Smock, Pennsylvania…

  • Randi

    Seed Saver Exchange

    Last fall I read Barbara Kingsolver’s novel Animal, Vegetable, Miracle as one of the books in my monthly Book Club.  The book is a true story about Kingsolver and her family, who only ate local food for one year.  If something was in season, they simply didn’t eat it. It was amazing to read about their daily life, all of which was food related.  While I try to eat local food as much as possible, I decided to go super-local and expand my garden this year. I ordered seeds from the Seed Savers Exchange.  Their mission:  “Since 1975, Seed Savers Exchange members have passed on approximately one million samples of…