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. […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

Every several months there’s this restless sensation inside of me. Do you get that? That squirmy feeling where you feel like you’ll suffocate if you have to live another day in the same routine, weighed down by the lists and priorities and deep ruts? Every several months I have to move. Breathe. Do something unscripted. […]