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Taco Feature / Austin Food Photographer

When Austin Monthly asked me to photograph their taco feature in the SXSW issue I was pumped!  I'm always up for eating...I mean shooting tacos!  Yum!  The tacos were shot specifically for this layout, which I think looks great with the white background and text.  It's graphic and cool.  I even saw Rachael Ray make crab and apple guacamole on Good Morning America this week inspired by the guacamole pictured on page 7 at La Condesa!  Please pick up a copy on news stands now or purchase here.

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Is Yellow the New Blue?

How beautiful are the yellow wildflowers growing along the highways around Austin?  I think they're so pretty but it turns out this invasive plant called Bastard Cabbage (what kind of flower name is that?) and they are taking over the areas where the bluebonnets grow.  I've still seen bluebonnets popping up everywhere though, but I can tell they're harder to see when these yellow guys are around.  More info about this plant can be found here.

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Spring Flowering Trees

I love to photograph flowering trees every spring.  This is the Texas Redbud in full bloom all around my neighborhood.  The bees and butterflies are also a fan of these pretty pink and purple trees.

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Paperwhites in Bloom

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Fabulous

Last fall I had the pleasure of photographing the stunning new store design for Burberry in Dallas.  Sleek and modern with both masculine and feminine touches with white walls, dark wood floors, and back lit wall displays.  It's a beautiful space with beautiful things!

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Cool Modern Interior

Check out this cool modern interior I photographed for Lane Design Studio based in Austin.  I really like the color and pattern in the master bedroom.  The vignette with the orchid is the homeowner's collection of tiny chairs.  So cool!  How about that panda painting in the little boy's room, is that edgy or what?  The color and pattern she used really makes this older home feel brighter and cheerful.

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Texas Photo Roundup

I am on the committee of volunteers planning Texas Photo Roundup, a marketing strategies and professional portfolio review event in Austin on February 3, 2012.  I'm really excited about the response we have received!  This event is a hosted by the Austin/San Antonio chapter of ASMP (I'm on the board of directors) and Austin Center for Photography.  There are still spots open for the morning marketing seminar and students and ASMP or ACP members get a discount!  Here is the flyer if you want to check it out.

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Gingerbread, Baking, and Pretty Packaging

My favorite tradition of the entire year is baking Christmas cookies.  After 40 sticks of butter and 5 bags of powdered sugar, my freezer was too full to add any more and I had to stop baking.  This tradition (and many of the recipes) came from my neighbor growing up.  We always looked forward to her cookies so I know exactly how friends and family feel, especially when they call to tell me that they ate them all!  It brings me a lot of joy, especially to add local clients to the list this year!  

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Pecan Pie

It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without pecan pie, according to my hubby Scott and our family friend, Cole, who hosted Thanksgiving this year.  Made from scratch, of course!  They said it was one of the best pecan pies they had ever had...what's the secret?  I added 1/4 tsp of chocolate extract!

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It's Fall in Austin

It's definitely fall in Austin.  The days are shorter and the mornings are chilly but the afternoons have been pleasant and sunny.  Fall isn't usually very colorful down here, at least not like it is up north, but this morning the crepe myrtle tree planted behind our fence burst into color and I just couldn't resist!

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Purple Petals

About a month or two ago I thinned out my purple shamrock plant (oxalis triangularis) and stuck a few of the cut stems in a vase of water instead of throwing them away.  To my surprise they didn't wilt and die within a few days, but thrived and grew roots.  To my pleasant surprise, I noticed yesterday that the roots had grown a couple stems of their own.  If you have never seen this plant, the petals close up at night and open like this in the mornings, and it also has purple flowers from time to time.  It always comes back and is my favorite house plant.

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Texas Photographer

I rediscovered this today and thought I would post.  This was actually from Labor Day, remember the smoke from the Leander wildfires?  That was behind this field where a couple of Longhorns were grazing...except for the one posing of course.

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Food Photographer / Eggs

I decided to have breakfast for lunch today.  Scrambled eggs, bacon, rice, and cheese mixed together -it's really good if you've never tried it.  I set the eggs down on the counter and the photography angels started to sing.  We just moved in a couple weeks ago and I'm happy to have found "my place" to shoot with natural light...the kitchen island across from a north-facing window.  While the rice was cooking I started to play.  Now this feels like home.  For the record, I only buy cage free eggs (for the sake of the chickens) and I highly recommend this to you as well.  They don't cost much more, and each carton has a palate of lovely brown shaded eggs.

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Marburger Farms Fall 2011 / Austin Travel Photographer

It's that time again, Marburger Farms Antique Show in Round Top, Texas.  I went for opening day on Tuesday and to visit with two of my good friends from Birmingham.  It was a wonderful day full of treasure hunting and about six hours of walking.  Here are some of the goodies there this year,  To check out the pictures from last year click here.

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Vacay Cont. Rockport, MA / Austin Travel Photographer

To conclude my summer vacay in New England series, is Rockport, Massachusetts.  This was the last day of our trip and this town is right up my ally!  Rockport is an absolutely charming coastal town with plenty of great shops, sailboats, history, so much pretty!  One of the famous landmarks in Rockport is Motif #1, which is the red fishing shack known throughout the world and featured in many paintings and photographs.  Apparently it got its name from an illustrator and etcher who spent his summers in Rockport teaching students.  He must have been tired of everyone sketching this building so he called it Motif No. 1 and it stuck.  I liked this moment I captured with the duck swimming past and the glasslike surface of the water.

We mostly just walked around and went in a couple shops before they closed.  Lula's Pantry is a great cooking store and the owners were so nice.  We enjoyed chatting with them and they also have a back deck for viewing the harbor.  That giant flaky pastry I'm holding is called an Elephant Ear from Rockport Fudgery; a delightful cinnamon/sugar crunchy thing that was bigger than my head!

We really enjoyed this town and I definitely recommend the drive to spend a summer day or two there if you're ever in Boston.

To see the other posts in this series:  Plymouth Rock,   Plymouth: Burial Hill,  Cape Cod,  Porches of New England,  Newport, RI,  Providence, RI,  Boston,  Beaches of Gloucester 

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Beaches of Gloucester, MA / Austin Travel Photographer

These are some of my favorites from our summer vacation in New England.  The last day of our trip Scott and I explored the coast of Massachusetts.  It was a rainy and dreary day, but I love the look it brings to these pictures.  This is Good Harbor Beach in Gloucester and the rocky shore is Stratesmouth Landing Cove between Gloucester and Rockport.  In the mid 1600s fisherman began fishing in this cove and they would brine and dry their catch in the sun to ship to England, the caribbean, and other far away destinations.    

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Leander Wildfire Labor Day

The last two days central Texas has been burning with wildfires.  The largest fire so far is in Bastrop, a fire of biblical proportions.  There is also a fire about a mile or two from where we live, in Steiner Ranch that has also been burning since yesterday afternoon.  Early this evening a fire was burning in Leander, here are a couple pictures I shot on the way home tonight.  This smoke is from the Leander fire.  It was mostly white smoke and in the first image you can see the darker smoke as well.  If you looked over the horizon on the other side of the sky you can also see smoke from the massive Bastrop fire.

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Austin Editorial Photographer

Check out some of the stories I shot in the September issue of Austin Monthly and the Fall issue of Austin Monthly Home, on news stands now.  This is a new magazine for me so I wanted to share a glimpse.  I shot the Dining lead in Monthly & a portrait and interiors from Heather Scott Home & Design for A.M. Home.  Thank you to Meredith Greagor for my "Contributing Photographer" picture.  I'm rarely on the other side of the camera so this was great to have!  I hope this will be the first of many more photo shoots in the future, it was a lot of fun to work with a new team.  You'll have to pick up a copy to see the rest!   :)

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New England Vacay Continued: Boston / Travel Photographer

We went to Boston for a day and checked out Paul Revere's house.  A bit wonky as you can see but amazing to have that piece of history still standing with the city built around it.  See the sky scraper in the background?  They don't allow pictures inside unfortunately but here are a few of the outside.  I really like the paint color actually, it's back in style!

From there we went to the Old North Church where the lantern was hung as a signal to spread the word quickly that the British troops were coming.  You may remember this verse from the poem, Paul Revere's Ride, "One if by land, and two if by sea."

We also drove to Cambridge to check out Harvard University.  This is how the smarties of Harvard spent that Sunday afternoon.  My mom had to join them for a picture. haha.  She really could have attended an Ivy League school if she wanted to but she went to Mizzou (University of Missouri).  In the search for a bathroom at Harvard we came across this giant magnifined glass (by the way this word is not in the dictionary...it's supposed to be magnifying glass but I always thought it was magnifined...right?)  Obviously I wouldn't qualify for Harvard for not knowing the correct spelling/pronunciation of this word.  Anyway, this thing is filled with water and pretty awesome.

At the end of the day we checked out the USS Constituation, which was built at the order of George Washington in 1797.  The ship was also nicknamed "Old Ironsides" during the War of 1812.

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