and introducing Marin Miller...

I know it sounds super cheese, pass the mozzarella but I am always honored to photograph people. I never get tired of it. I love to see their story unfold right there in front of me. I'd like to say it happens every time, and maybe it doesn't but when you photograph an artist who sits right on the edge of that space, its my favorite. ( I'm not even going to ask if that made sense LOL ) When I walked into Baylor Theatre over 25 years ago, I had a sense of home that I had never felt before. I loved the solitude of being on stage, the complete vulnerability and safety of it, just blew my mind. So even though I haven't been in a play "except in my living room" hahahaha for the past 8 years or so, I love going to the theatre, and ESPECIALLY the Theater Bug, in East Nashville, where these kids just rock my world with their depth and sweetness and hilarity and Cori writes and directs these brilliant plays..perhaps you've seen some of those kids photos floating around my facebook site or on the blog. I really cherish them. And I am thrilled that the littles have found their artistic home at such a young age.. I'm digressing.. What I want to say is ...being able to hang out with Marin who is a joyful actress here in Nashville and loved by all who know her and Kimberly Clo who is brilliant with the hair and makeup and cracks me up... our little headshot shoot at Ruckus sort of became this afternoon of lets pretend. Marin is the real deal and attempting to harness all of her joy, depth, vulnerability, empathy and excitement for life in some pictures was really a great time.

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Everyone is Creative

What is your deeply buried gift? Don’t think it’s not down there. It is. Something is going to help it rise to the surface. When I was a child, I dreamt of going to Hollywood and making movies. I remember specifically knowing what it must feel like to do that very thing, although I was in the middle of a rural ranchette in Texas. I carried around a video recorder the size of carry on luggage, which attached to a giant news station style camera, and I made movies. I can think of three or four different films that were lost forever in the 80’s. I remember shooting portraits of my cats sitting alongside cowboy hats, with a little 110 camera, and writing story after story and reading book after book. Talking into an old recorder with an English accent, singing at the top of my lungs as I played the piano. These are the snapshots of my childhood forty years ago. When I graduated from the theatre department at Baylor University, I was not ready emotionally and did...

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Today I was looking through some photos and came across some of the first pictures I ever saw of the girls in Ghana. I love this picture of Grace. She's got the"weird mouth" face. When she first came home and was over-stimulated, or didn't understand something, she would make this face. This is face I see today! The "mom, are you crazy?" face. It just amazes me how far the girls have come in almost nine months. I remember at the beginning Grace probably understood half of what we said and Mariama would translate for her. After you receive your referral you get to send welcome bags to your kids letting them know about their future family and these pics were taken by another mom who was there when our girls received theirs! I just love their faces.. especially Mariama!! This is me with a friend of the girls, she and her family are amazing and really added to my experience there. It's funny because I really miss the SMELL of Ghana.. the burning trash smel...

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