Waco was a fascinating place, still so very small town Texas, but with this booming mecca in the middle of Magnolia. It also has a gorgeous riverwalk area and of course the beautiful campus of Baylor University. Seeing a touch of the Gaines family almost everywhere was a testament to their mission and Joanna’s impeccable design taste. Their complex at the Silos was so well thought out and perfectly planned. It was such a visually awesome place to photograph and visit. I hope you enjoy this!

Also I was in Texas with these three, and well they are my favorite…so all the better!

Street photography and travel photography

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I bought a fun old soviet camera at an antique market in Moscow. It is a rangefinder and it took me a roll or two to get the focus figured out. But I loved running some rolls of Ektar through it and even though some of these shots are missing focus I love the feeling of them! Ektar film is quickly becoming my favorite film to shoot. As I focus on my style and “who I am as a photographer” I am quickly realizing that I am colorful. And I dont want whimpy white washed colors. If it is in color I want the real thing. These fall colors remind me of one of my favorite times of year.

Our little aquarium here in North Carolina is not the best one in the world by any means. But it is big enough to keep girly happy and there is a fun playground attached and thats all the boys need. Ha! It was a fun outing.

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 Back in the early 2000’s when every stay at home had a blog and would post to it weekly or even daily, my blog was called “A Day in the Ras”. I don’t know if anyone else cared for that title, but I always loved it and still use it as a hashtag on Instagram and in my own personal archiving of images. To me it means, shots that I really didn’t stage. Moments that really just happened and I was there to capture it.

My life has changed a lot since those early motherhood days. Now I only have one at home with me most of the time and she is a girl and operates a little differently then her older brothers did. All of the images on todays post are of her while the bigs are at school, and they represent us. What I do with her during the day. I kept her home from preschool this year (my boys all attended 2-3 of preschool before kindergarten) but for some reason I just wasn’t ready to send her. She will go to three days a week of PreK next year when she is 5 (she just misses the cut off). I will miss her so much! She is my little sidekick and I know it will take a major adjustment to get used to my life without her at home. What will I do when I stop by the beach for some fresh air? Probably not build a mermaid castle like we did this day.

It is a new stage of life that I know I will enjoy, but also as I look through these images, I dread. Change is a part of the human existence and I know I will adjust. Today however I will just cling to the moments we have left of just the two of us, living our day to day life. What are your thoughts on your last baby?

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Moscow completely surprised me. It was such a clean and safe feeling city. It was huge and modern. Maybe I sound naive saying these things but as I tell most of my friends about my trip, it seems that I am not alone in my presumptions about what Moscow would be like. I loved it there.

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I figured out this was my fifth time in Paris. Makes me feel like a spoiled person! I feel so lucky to have seen as much of the world as I have. Traveling really fills a part of my soul. I loved this time to Paris. I had seen the sights and was able to just relax and photograph what I saw. Street photography is always my favorite thing to do in Paris. I first got into photography looking at a Eugene Atget book in high school. He was a pioneer documentary photographer in Paris in the 1900s. When I walk around Paris, I still feel his influence and a desire to capture life on the streets of Paris.

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