This is such an adorable little mother-daughter shoot!  Collette from Brier Rose Design styled the sweet vintage lemonade stand setting, and spent a lovely afternoon with her daughter Brierlyn playing and laughing while sipping lemonade and enjoying the gorgeous California weather.  Brierlyn is cute as a button, and the images from Kim Robbins are ones I know they will treasure forever.  Love this idea for some “Mommy and Me” keeper shots!

Photography – Kim Robbins \ Styling – Brier Rose Design \ …

Hi everyone! Welcome to the new and improved EAD Living!  If you are reading in Google Reader, hop on over and take a look. I hope you all love it.  Bigger pictures and a more streamlined layout, but of course all the same EAD features you know and love. Profiles have been added to the post bylines, the menu bar got a little revamp, and did I mention bigger pictures?  Also, EAD Living is going to be featuring …

I’ve always been fascinated by the tradition of gap year. It’s not celebrated, for the most part, in the United States. However, the organization I work for is trying to change that. For the past eight months, I’ve been working with 18-22 years old American young adults who are taking that gap year (some after college graduation). During this time, they work through project goals that include finding out who they are, their purpose in life, how to live in …

So, if you follow me on Twitter, you may know that for a loooooong time now I’ve been coveting a DSLR.  Well, I finally broke down and purchased one!

I went with the Canon Rebel XSi, with the kit lens.

I’ve had it for all of three days but I am in LOVE so far!  Charlie moves super fast, so obviously I had trouble getting a great photo with a point and shoot.  Here is my favorite Charlie pic with my Rebel …

Maternity shoot teaser – more photos to come soon!

All credit for these goes to the adorable and incredibly talented Bethany Jackman.

As Christmas approaches I’ve started to receive emails from readers who seem to mistakenly believe I am some kind of camera expert. :) I am most definitely not, although I do have some opinions regarding what cameras I think are the best bet for certain consumers. My recommendations for this post will all be Canon, as I think it’s a great brand and the one I’m most familiar with. I think Nikon has equivalents for each one of these, and …

Today is one of those days. I’m not particularly motivated to tackle my to do list. Nor am I ready to tackle the 2 hour lesson I need to finish before tomorrow morning. I’ve spent the morning thinking of the friends I have been blessed with, thinking of Hurricane Ida landing on the coast, and capturing the small details of this beautiful day.

My sweet Jesse, waiting out the morning with me.

A clothesline filled with baby clothing.

A self portrait.

Is it just me or does it seem like this year is flying by at record speed? How can it be November already? And more importantly, how can it be pitch black by 5:30 pm these days?

I’ve always been a Mid-western girl and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. Although you might hear me gripe and complain from approximately November through April (because that is truly how long a bitter Wisconsin winter lasts up here), I would never trade …

Since I started writing my photography tip & tutorial posts I’ve started receiving emails and Facebook asking

“. Where do I go from here?”
or
“I have a dSLR but I want to get a different lens, what should I buy?”

My answer is always the same, that I think it’s best to buy down in body and up in lens. If this is going over your head already just remember that dSLR’s have two separate parts, the camera part, called a body, and …

We’re gaining a new addition to our home come April 2010!

While planning my wedding I learned about all of these creative and innovative projects people embarked on during the engagement period. So it figures that now that I’m in the pre-natal period I would be dreaming up projects that apply to baby. Nursery decor projects? Those are off limits for single income couples like us that plan on moving 5 months after the baby is born to go to business …