Last year I got to do some recital portraits for a local Austin dance company and it. was. the. best. All these cute little girls in their cute little costumes and little dance shoes and little dance poses. I mean, some of them are barely out of diapers and had only been dancing 6 months, […]

Last year I got to do some recital portraits for a local Austin dance company and it. was. the. best. All these cute little girls in their cute little costumes and little dance shoes and little dance poses. I mean, some of them are barely out of diapers and had only been dancing 6 months, […]

Amy and I had the chance to meet each other when I first moved to Austin nearly a year and a half ago (!) and I think we both realized we had a lot in common (right, Amy?!) – we were at the same place in life, with similar interests and aesthetics, both artists, both […]

“I’ve been watching you, Dad, Ain’t that cool?I’m your buckaroo, I want to be like you And eat all my food, and grow as tall as you are” We like fixing things, and holding mama’s hand… Yeah, we’re just alike, hey aint we, Dad? I want to do everything you do…. So I’ve been watching you.” […]

I’m a pretty picky senior photographer – I’m more comfortable in the creative chaos of a wedding, with stunning locations, or teaming up with a friend for a wild, unusual creative shoot. This girl, though, she’s something else. Not many people hold themselves with the confidence and grace that she has at such a young […]

anna kraft – baby photographer? nope. too weird. too not me. but then my cute friends got married and my cute friend got pregnant and she had a cute baby. ‘leo’ for short, because his name is too long and exotic for me to pronounce here. and i thought, ‘why not?’ i’d get some cute […]

Life is funny in it’s throws and bumps. I found myself during one of those funny bumps riding the bus every morning for work during part of the summer. (follow #thebusstories on IG if you care to see what that looked like.) Prior to taking the bus, I had certain….. expectations. Expectations about the bus drivers. […]

Okay. I admit. I was surprised when I heard about two sisters, marrying two brothers, who were getting married on the same day, and having a double wedding. In the words of the woman who processed their marriage license, “Is that even legal?!” It is, and they did it. And it was awesome. There were […]

One of my favorite holiday traditions was and is the traditional, annual family photo. No matter how classy or cheesy, there’s a warm, fuzzy place in my heart for these. We have more than two decades of photos of my family at Christmas time. My first memories occur around 5 years old, when Dad would set […]

“Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the […]