Category archives: active
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- With the advent of a new year, we have a whole lot of days, weeks, and photo adventures to look forward to this year. One of the questions I am often asked is, “What photo trends are coming for this year?”
While I may not be able to tell the future, many other forecasters do a great job of showing what’s coming to [...]
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- After the hustle and bustle of the holidays, I was so thrilled to get this New Year’s card from a dear high school friend. Who doesn’t love Happy New Year wishes? Her family looks so happy in this photo, and even my husband commented when he came home and ran across the card hanging on our fridge.
How cute are[...]
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- Happy New Year!
I love new beginnings, and the start of the New Year is a great new beginning. It’s the chance to try something new, try something again, or clear your decks to make room for more of what you love. A new year is a celebration and a milestone in itself. What will you celebrate this year?
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Does it feel like 2016 flew by? It does, doesn’t it? But then I take a pause and look back over these past 12 months, and realize how full 2016 really was...
JANUARY
Thank you to this family who invited me into their home to photograph the three of them. These three have a joy that was the undercurrent of our [...]
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- I love when I get to work with a really fabulous team who is passionate about what they do and who they interact with. This law firm, their people, and the community they've created in Chapel Hill, North Carolina believes in Carolina Blue, friendship, and being so very real and authentic.
How do I know that? [...]
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- By the time we reach Thanksgiving, our portrait sessions for the year are wrapping up, but I had the opportunity to photograph this family of three in time for holiday portraits. Hurrah! I wouldn’t have traded this time behind the camera or this morning light. And running around the woods photographing a two-year-ol[...]
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- Last week, I showed a sneak peek of my photo session with J. – the sweet 18 month old with a twinkle in her eye.
This is a great age to do a “day in the life” photo shoot. The shoot is meant to feel like a casual get-together where we spend time together visiting favorite locations, having a few outfit changes [...]
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- Morning light brought out J.'s smile, but I think she outshines the sun, don't you?
I'll share more on this sweet girl in the coming days. Stay tuned...
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- If you follow me on Instagram, you would have seen this cutie-patootie smiling back at you. Meet G.
G. was fun to photograph and had such a sweet smile. What made it extra special was that Mom wanted to make sure we got a photo of Riley, their dog, as well. Riley's an older gal who found it hard to move, but [...]
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- Today may be Halloween, but the real costumes came out on Friday night when sponsors, hosts, and fans of the Chapel Hill Public Library Foundation came dressed to the nines in their finest Roaring ‘20s vintage wear. Gangsters and their molls, feather boas galore, not to mention a signature gin cocktail for the evening[...]
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- Did you see these fun images on Barbara Bell Photography’s Instagram account and wonder what was going on?
So sorry to leave you hanging these past couple of days! The good news is that I am now ready to share the shooting I did on Saturday night.
(You don’t need to say that 3x fast…what a tongue twister!)
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- Phew! We survived Hurricane Matthew with little issue. The power stayed on. Trees stayed upright. To the people who were less fortunate with their homes and their businesses, my thoughts are with you.
Usually a rainy day for me means staying inside to bake. Last week, though, our oven died so in planning for the[...]
