Hey, I’m Adam…
I’m really glad you’re here!
Enjoy these three fun facts before you read on.
We totally renovated our 100-year-old two-story home from a duplex to a single-family…even though we swore we’d never renovate a home again after the first two we flipped.
I’ve ugly-cried behind my camera during the father-daughter dance at every wedding I’ve ever shot.
I started on a journey toward metabolic healing in 2022 in order to address my struggle with anxiety and depression and ended up accidentally losing 50 lbs in the process.
This crazy journey
This whole thing started way back in 2006 when I started taking family photos for my coworkers.
Well, actually, it started wayyy before that.
I inherited the family camera back when I was eight. A Kodak 110 pocket camera! Remember those?! My old photo albums lay out the timeline.
Mom used to keep our printed albums up-to-date with dutifully captured snapshots - complete with a full description of the scene written on the back.
The last photo she took, captioned, and slipped into its sleeve is in the Fall 1992 album.
It’s a shot of my (award-winning) second-grade Halloween costume.
Two weeks later, Mom was gone.
You can clearly see the jump to where I took over the family photojournalistic responsibilities. My poor dad and brother were my reluctant (or unknowing) subjects most of the time, but I took that camera everywhere.
I eventually “upgraded” to a 35 mm point-and-shoot film camera in the mid-nineties and then, during high school, I picked up my first film SLR and started learning the true fundamentals of exposure and composition.
Fun fact: Through high school and college, I even had a job at the Wal-Mart 1-hour photo lab!
Fast-forward to 2007 when Sarah and I started our own little family. That’s when my photography obsession REALLY gained steam. I had cute, chubby baby models built right in!
As I’ve been a parent now for sixteen years, I look back and cherish all of the photos I created along the way - from film to iPhone to professional - and everywhere in between.
Print those photos.
Keep those albums.
Create those professional portraits.
There are special souls in the future who will be so glad you did.
