This week the photograph for our wallpaper was taken while I was driving in the Florida Keys (Islamorada to be specific). The day was beautiful of course and dusk was no exception. This is one more reason to love the Golden Hour.

Sam and I have been really enjoying Instagram. Old news for most people but us Android owners are just getting to start playing with the app. In the mornings at the Benson Trotter house, our dog Budapest is up with the sun (sometimes slightly before it). He’s a good dog and won’t wake you up [...]

This photograph is also from Sam and I’s epic trip to the west coast, I took it as we drove from LA to San Fran with two of our favorite girls! Somewhere before wine country, but after Santa Barbara.

It’s no secret that anyone can get hold of camera and take some decent shots these days. But why is it often so important to use a professional photographer instead? If you are considering commissioning a shoot with a professional, then here are just a few points which you may want to bear in mind.
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No seriously, thank you. Because as much as it sucks to have another photographer with the same name as me (we’ll both agree it kinda sucks), it doesn’t suck as much as it could. I appreciate that you are a normal person, not a crazy person. I count myself lucky that your working in a [...]

A great NY Times Post about Ben Lowy who uses his cell phone and Hipstamatic app to create some of the most compelling war photography we’ve seen. He is published by the biggest names in news, and the winner of the some of photography’s most prestigious awards. Well played Ben. Well played.

image copyright Ben Lowy

My husband and I just finished an epic series of trips. We flew to Scottsdale, AZ for our future God Daughters baby shower (Elle should be here this month! Very excited!), rented a car and drove to LA (got to see so many of my awesome friends and family), drove with one of my best [...]

Sam makes an excellent light testing model. This is a basic light setup that I like to use for portraits in my studio. It’s 3 lights, 2 on the background and one key light on the model. By simply turning the background lights on and off or turning them towards the model we get 3 [...]

On Saturday morning my shoot canceled. Always a bummer. But the good news was my friends and neighbors were bringing their car (and tiny chihuahua Taco) down to a car show in the center of our little town. So I walked down there and brought my camera, took some fun shots of their car (a [...]

My prints for the Palm Beach new restaurant Imoto were due to be finished today, I drove down to Color House in Miami to do one last quality control and two of the three prints looked great. But the third print was a little off (they caught the mistake before I got there but this [...]