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An Early Spring

As the trees started to bloom a full month early this year, my daughter and I discovered that the tree in our front yard is the same as the trees that our neighbors had near our old house.  Every year we take a spring portrait of her in front of those trees.  This year, we...

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The Little Tera Nelson Photographers – Altoona, PA Family Photography

What makes me happy?  Girls feeling good about themselves.  And what better way to do that than to sponsor a girls soccer team and then take pictures of them looking awesome?! These young women played against boys teams all season, yet ended the regular season undefeated.  As a mother of two beautiful sons, I have...

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Washington, DC Road Trip

I took a trip to Washington DC last week with a friend.  We saw a California wedding photographer speak and met up with some photographers from the DC area.  They were kind enough to arrange a luncheon to meet me which was absolutely wonderful.  As we sat at a quaint little dinner outside of the...

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The True Measure of a Photograph

I have been looking through my work from this past year looking for images to enter into a photography competition. Photographs of families or from weddings or engagement sessions are not what the judges are looking for.  This is the fine art realm. As I scan my Lightroom catalog I notice that I had much...

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Bird Hunting in Winter – Altoona Family Photographer

My three year old has been talking a lot about “birdies” lately.  Wondering where they are, what they eat, how they eat them and where they live.  I think all of the questions have been spawned by an empty nest that we found in one of our apple trees.  As the snow has temporarily thawed...

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