Category: family

  • My Brain Before War…. Spring break, summer plans, what school should our kids go to next year? Refinance, home repairs: roof, fence or paint? And then… 24 February, 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine. March 6th, 2022 PBS News: “1.5 million people flee from Ukraine, families choosing to leave their homes with only what they could carry,…

  • Celebrating Family in Petaluma…

    To see the Celebrating Family exhibit grab a map and scavenger hunt form at Copperfields or the Petaluma Arts Center and head downtown Petaluma. Share your thoughts about the exhibit and your favorite photos on social media with #celebratingfamilypetaluma

  • Last year I offered Farm Family Photo Shoots at Windrush Farm and  we had so much fun… That we are doing it again this year. Sessions are 45 minutes and include 10 high resolution digital files of your choice.  Additional images will be available for purchase. We recommend wearing clothes & shoes you don’t mind getting dirty… And bringing…

  • Our first ever Farm Flower Photos with Chloris Floral and Grace and Gather at Windrush Farm was so beautiful, we can hardly stand it… Outside the barn was crazy with rain and hail storms, but inside our barn was like… We had so much fun that we would love to do it again. At another farm. In…

  • Two years ago, I started this blog post: Welcome to the world baby, Alistair Henry Harris… We waited a long time for you to arrive.   A long, long time. And you didn’t come how we expected… But you eventually came, all whopping 10.2lbs of you. Everyone was excited to meet you, but no one more…

  • My oldest son loves sharks. Passionately. The other day he really wanted to watch a movie about them, but I couldn’t find one that doesn’t involve sharks killing people. So I found a documentary about a young man, who also loves sharks, and spends his life photographing and studying them. But sharks are endangered, so instead…

  • When I asked HAH if he wanted to go on an adventure today, he said, “A MAN-venture.” Lucky kid gets to spend a lot of time with his dad and his dad’s creative vocabulary. But today was a family-venture day, which I documented with my Rolleiflex, a medium format film camera, so no photos to…

  • It is an exciting time for the Wan-Rees family and for The Big Flip! On May 22nd, 2013, sweet Mabel Mai was born and we were lucky to have the opportunity to document what day 5 looked like for this family of 6… And now for the Katie Couric part…. on Tuesday, June 11th, Mabel…

  • I was eight months pregnant with my son when Izzy Chan asked me if I would help her document the increasing trend of women becoming the primary breadwinners of their families. She had statistics and facts for this new role reversal that painted a pretty dismal outlook. As the primary breadwinners of our own households,…

  • If you asked me how my home birth was, you would not hear me say, “My home birth was beautiful.” Instead I very honestly would tell you, “It was extremely long, incredibly painful and very, very messy. I can understand why drugs were invented and why people take them.” Between endless hours of back-breaking contractions,…