“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 […]

I photographed her daughter-in-law’s wedding almost 4 years ago along the border of Arizona and Phoenix. Jasmine and Joey believed in me enough to get my feet underneath me. I set out from Oklahoma City westbound on I40 in my old Buick, drove through the day and night to photograph their marriage. I reconnected with […]

I photographed her daughter-in-law’s wedding almost 4 years ago along the border of Arizona and Phoenix. Jasmine and Joey believed in me enough to get my feet underneath me. I set out from Oklahoma City westbound on I40 in my old Buick, drove through the day and night to photograph their marriage. I reconnected with […]

You know how facebook recommends people for you to friend? Do you ever friend them? I almost never do, but sometimes I like to click through their friend lists; (I know I know, suuuuuper stalkerish… but you can tell a lot about people by who their friends are). One time when I did this, I […]

They were the couple who looked at me and said, “We want you, Anna. Out of of everyone else, you’re the photographer we pick for our wedding. When we met you we knew you were it.” This is one of the weddings that is the most personal for me; one of the closest to my […]

That time I covered a Funny or Die event at the SXSW festival. The big names were there – Zach somebody, a guy named Seth. Most people seemed to be stressed yet trying oh-so-hard to not seem stressed. A contrast of laughing, silly faces, and stern, hard, guarded faces. A feeling of stifled sadness, forced laughter. […]

“We are, not metaphorically but in very truth, a Divine work of art, something that God is making, and therefore something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character. Here again we come up against what I have called the “intolerable compliment.” Over a sketch made idly to amuse a […]

Growing up in a family with 4 brothers toughens you a little bit and makes you roll your eyes at things like tea parties, bows, ballet, and the color pink, like somehow I am “above” those things. To this day I still adore little boys: I love their ruddy little cheeks and their clear, bright, sharp […]