Recently, we spent an afternoon in DC. The main point of the day was the Dan TDM show that we were attending in the evening, but in order to make a day of it we visited the Natural History Museum (and had Shake Shack for lunch. Which needs to happen more often. I might need […]
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During the time that we lived in Sicily, we did the majority of our traveling in Italy. However, we did make one trip up North, to London and Paris right around Christmas time. Each city has its own charms, but I did find London a little more kid-friendly. That may have had a lot to
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This year we stayed close to home for Spring Break. My husband wasn’t able to take time off, so I tasked myself to fill our week with short daily outings that would convince the boys that they didn’t need to be on electronics all day long ;) One day we took a quick drive over to
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Sometimes the pictures say enough and lots of additional words are unnecessary. Please enjoy this tour of the Washington DC cherry blossoms on the Tidal Basin. 9am on a Sunday in late March… Pin It
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Visiting Rome with kids is a fantastic idea. The sites are memorable, the culture is friendly to kids and the variety of food available will appeal to every palate. However, it is best to plan carefully when traveling to Rome with little children. Consider our experience: The scene: early June amongst the baking, heat-radiating cobblestoned
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Arlington Cemetery is one of the most important tourist sites in the greater Washington DC area. It is beautifully maintained, integral to our national identity and worthy of a few hours of time if a visit to DC is in your plans. Here are five photo prompts to help you most fully capture the experience
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January is the perfect time of year for a girls’ weekend. Georgetown is an awesome location. Food, coffee, cocktails, shopping and laughter. Followed by a little bit of work. But, not too much ;) Pin It
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Philadelphia’s historic district is quite compact and perfect for walking around with kids. Within several blocks we were able to visit Independence Hall, The Liberty Bell, The Betsy Ross House, Benjamin Franklin’s grave, Elfreth’s Alley and had a fantastic lunch at High Street Market. The walk to City Hall and Reading Terminal was a bit
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I wasn’t aware just how storied and well traveled the Liberty Bell is. The exhibit that accompanies it is very educational and the building designers did photographers a favor with the wall of windows and white marble on either side (…if you can elbow your way past all of the tourists and wait for an
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I still am not over the feeling of awe that arises when we “stand where Washington stood.” Or Hamilton. Or Lincoln. Or…. And then I fall down the rabbit hole of contemplating what made the individuals that we remember history makers. What factors combined perfectly to propel them to making the choices they did, that
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10 minutes on a chilly, sunny, November morning at a rental cottage outside Charlottesville. The only sounds were the birds in the trees (and the children…)
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I sat in on Ashley Crawford’s family photography on film class at Clickaway. It was fun to watch someone more experienced work with film and, yet again, hear the reminder to give that film plenty of light ;) A day or two later, my friend Courtney Slazinik (Clickitupanotch.com) and I went out to see the
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The day after Thanksgiving, we decided to head into the city for a day of museums, instead of shopping. Judging by the business of the Natural History Museum, many other people had the same idea. After touring most of the museum, we all agreed that the gem and mineral section (not pictured) was our absolute
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Over Labor Day weekend we went camping as a family (dogs and all!) near Harpers Ferry. I had been avoiding shooting with film during summer, as the move from Alabama to Virginia made the organization necessary to shoot and store film feel a bit overwhelming. Honestly, I had also been quite underwhelmed with my film
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From the time that we learned we’d be moving to the DC area I was looking forward to fall. For the past 6 years we have lived in very mild climates, where the leaves don’t really change colors… they gradually fade to brown and fall off the trees. It’s almost as though they drop down
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Sometimes I wish I could live on an Apple Farm. But, usually, those are days when it is brilliantly sunny, warm and I’ve been wooed by the magic of pie, or cider donuts, or hard cider. Then, I remember that there are many cold, windy, worrisome and wearying days associated with running a large farm.
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I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, & the independance of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gay capital. … for tho’ there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease & less misery. –Paris Sep. 6. 1785, letter to Baron von Geismar The East coast is rich
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While trip planning I usually Google for “must-dos” in whatever city we are head to, then pick a few things from the top of the list and a few from the middle to get a good feeling for what is most popular and what might be largely undiscovered gems. Hollywood Cemetery was pretty high up
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Usually, when trip planning I have an internal debate with myself “Do I have enough ‘kids’ activities? Or does it not matter and they can just learn how to be little humans in an adult world?” While I’d love to say that they always flawlessly blend into adult scenes, that isn’t the case… so travel
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In between classes I had a few moments to photograph Seattle. Mainly from the hotel, but it worked out. Several of these photos were shot in the Presidential Suite on the 40th floor. What a view! To explain the photos at the end- my husband sent me a treat because he was concerned I wasn’t
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When I travel I either photograph my family, relatively unposed, as we explore a destination or take pictures of scenes that I come across. For the sessions on travel photography that I taught at Clickaway, I was struggling with how to use a model in a way that was relatively authentic to my normal approach
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During our Spring Break trip to Nashville and Kentucky, we stopped at the Jim Beam Distillery for a tour. Kind of a dubious activity with children, but they enjoyed it much more than I thought they would! We got to see the mash process in craft and industrial format, sampled Knob Creek straight out of the
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I’ve seen a lot of the West coast, quite a bit of Texas, and having lived in Alabama for close to a year now, a good amount of the South. I had not, however, visited many of the interior states. In order to remedy that, I arranged our Spring Break trip to Nashville and Lexington/Louisville and
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When living near a Space Museum, of course you must take a weekend trip to visit it. The kids were thrilled to explore all of the hands-on exhibits at the Huntsville Space and Rocket Museum and it was stunning, to all of us, just how large the Saturn rockets were. One child inquired if it
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