Tag: paige green

  • 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

  • Dear Friends and Family,  What a year 2020 has been. For those who have lost loved ones during this year, I am deeply sorry for your loss and pain.  For those who have gotten sick, lost jobs, suffered from depression and isolation, experienced the emotional drain and trauma from the racial upheaval, were affected by wild…

  • Holy Jenga, the sun came up on a new year. (After 2016, I wasn’t so sure it would.) But the last thing we need is another blog post about how bad things were in 2016. I figure, since most of our history books are filled with one-sided perspectives, and those perspectives aren’t always very factual……

  • My reply: Yes and very much yes…. Thank you, MALT, for the work you do protecting farmland and for working with me for the past 10 years. This was my favorite MALT photo shoot yet. And thank you to my excellent pilot, John, for the incredible early morning tour. I’m happy to fly with you again any…

  • Said my four-year-old, after my very inspirational and thought-provoking lesson on new year’s resolutions. I was hoping for, “I want to help more in the kitchen,” Or, “pick up trash on the beach.” But unfortunately I don’t get to pick his new year’s resolutions… just my own. And this year I am dragging my feet into the new year.…

  • Do you know who made your jeans or where they came from? Thanks to Fibershed’s “Grow Your Jeans” campaign, I do know who made my jeans and where they came from… The inspiring Sally Fox grew the organic cotton in the Capay Valley, The fearless Rebecca Burgess grew and composted the indigo at different farms around the Bay…

  • Well, it’s that time of year again… Meaning it’s time to dig through the memories of last year… Pull out the highlights… And make big plans for the coming year… Thing is, I have been chasing big plans for the past 15 years… Finding a job turned into building a career… Six years of saying,…

  • Ever wonder what 16 photo shoots in 12 different cities in 22 days looks like… November 2nd: (9 am) Oakland with this lovely family. November 2nd: (1 pm) Healdsburg at the DaVero Olive Harvest. November 4th: San Francisco with Education Outside. November 5th: Bodega newborn session. November 7th: Petaluma documenting nine months. November 8th: (10…

  • A couple of months ago I received an email from photographer Freda Banks saying she needed causal, natural portraits for her website that show she is artistic in a friendly and approachable manner. I had never met Freda, I had only seen her beautiful work online, so when she answered the door looking like this…I…

  • Fibershed is a project that is very close to my heart. I have been documenting Fibershed since Rebecca Burgess first started her personal challenge in 2010. I clearly remember the conversation Rebecca and I had in 2009 while we were sitting in the airport waiting to board a plane to one of our Harvesting Color…