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I taught yoga at Power & Grace this morning and dedicated the class to three powerful expressions of the Divine Feminine...
08/26/2026

I taught yoga at Power & Grace this morning and dedicated the class to three powerful expressions of the Divine Feminine: Dolly Parton, Tina Turner, and my grandmother Sylvia.

Dolly Parton’s passing called up something profound in me. She embodied a kind of Lakshmi energy—the goddess of abundance, beauty, and generosity.

She showed us that abundance isn’t only about what we possess. It’s also about what we give away: love, laughter, music, kindness, and possibility.

Tina Turner has always represented the warrior goddess to me—a woman who found the strength to rise, reclaim herself, and transform suffering into spiritual power.

I recently finished her remarkable memoir, Happiness Becomes You, which details her Buddhist practice and devotion. I was deeply inspired by her strength, discipline, and dedication.

And my grandmother Sylvia was her own magnificent force of the Divine Feminine. She expected people to treat her beautifully—and most of the time, they did. 😂 She simply would not tolerate anything less.

I’ve always associated my grandmother with peacocks. So when I arrived at Power & Grace this morning and saw the image on today’s calendar page, I felt as though she had sent me a little message:

“I am grown up and comfortable enough to ask for what I want in positive ways.”

We ended class with Dolly Parton singing “I Will Always Love You,” honoring everyone and everything we have loved while remembering that love sometimes asks us to release what is no longer carrying us forward.

May we know our worth.
May we ask for what we need.
May we love deeply.
And may we have the courage to let go when it is time.

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Last Wednesday, I had the honor of substituting for Marcelle—one of my beloved yoga mentors—at Power & Grace Yoga at Sva...
08/24/2026

Last Wednesday, I had the honor of substituting for Marcelle—one of my beloved yoga mentors—at Power & Grace Yoga at Sva Ha Academy. The class went so beautifully, and there was a little magic in the room.

At the end of class, we gathered to pull cards from a deck I brought home from Tulum, Mexico. Jessica chose a card whose illustration showed a woman wearing what appeared to be the exact same stone necklace Jessica was wearing.

What are the chances? These are the small, shimmering moments that remind me to pay attention.

I’ll be back teaching for Marcelle this Wednesday, August 26, with a slow, heartfelt flow as we move through the final days of the eclipse tunnel and toward Friday’s lunar eclipse in Pisces—a beautiful moment for listening inward, releasing what is complete, and making space for what wants to emerge.

I would love to share the practice with you. 💙

Power & Grace Yoga
Wednesday, August 26
Sva Ha Academy

In 2014, I was named Best of Boston Wedding Photographer by Boston Magazine.It was one of the biggest honors of my caree...
08/17/2026

In 2014, I was named Best of Boston Wedding Photographer by Boston Magazine.

It was one of the biggest honors of my career.

And it messed with my head.

Suddenly there was this little voice asking: If I’m the best, do I have to stay the best?

We live in a culture obsessed with rankings. Best photographer. Best school. Best athlete. We even teach our children to distinguish themselves, to get ahead.

But ahead of whom?

Nature doesn’t seem particularly interested in being “the best.”

A tree doesn’t worry about the tree beside it. One flower doesn’t need another flower to be less beautiful in order to bloom.

And this funny little red fruit certainly wasn’t trying to win anything.

I photographed it because I noticed it.

Lumpy. Imperfect. Completely itself.

Maybe that’s a better definition of beauty.

Not being the best. Being unmistakably yourself.

After 35 years of photographing people, I’ve learned that the interesting thing is almost never perfection. It’s the crooked smile. The uncontrollable laugh. The child who won’t stand where I put them. The tiny details that make someone them.

Maybe our job isn’t to be the best.

Maybe it’s to be our own kind of beautiful.

Our own kind of funny.
Our own kind of brilliant.
Our own kind of kind.

Don’t become somebody else. Become more fully yourself.

From the SouthCoast LGBTQ+ post “To every trans young person reading this: you are not a debate topic, and you are not a...
08/14/2026

From the SouthCoast LGBTQ+ post “To every trans young person reading this: you are not a debate topic, and you are not a problem to be solved. You are our neighbor, and we are glad you are here.

To the adults in this conversation, all of us: the children of this town are listening, including children none of us know are listening. Neighbors can disagree about policy, but a child’s dignity is not policy. We ask everyone, whatever their view, to speak as if the kids were in the room, because they are.”

What if you could turn something you carry inside you into a work of art?That is the heart of my Sacred Portrait Mantra ...
08/13/2026

What if you could turn something you carry inside you into a work of art?
That is the heart of my Sacred Portrait Mantra Workshop.
You choose a mantra that speaks to you. You write it in your own hand. Through gentle movement, sound, and intention, we create space for you to connect with those words.
Then I create your sacred portrait.
Your handwriting becomes the world surrounding you. Your mantra becomes part of the image. And on the second day, you return to transform your portrait through art-making—creating something that is uniquely yours.
It isn’t just a photograph.
It is an embodied expression of what you want to remember, believe, or call into your life.
September 26 & October 10
10:30am–12pm
The Studio at the Mattapoisett Wellness Center

Includes your custom 10x10 printed portrait
Come make something beautiful out of something meaningful.

One teenager. Nine expressions. Eighteen years of becoming.Most of my high school senior families choose a nine-grid por...
08/07/2026

One teenager. Nine expressions. Eighteen years of becoming.

Most of my high school senior families choose a nine-grid portrait—and I understand why.

How could one photograph possibly contain the amazing person you have spent eighteen years loving, guiding, worrying about, cheering for and pouring your energy into?

There is the confident young adult preparing to step into the world.

And there is still the playful child you remember so clearly.

There is thoughtfulness and strength. Mischief and tenderness. Accomplishment, possibility—and a personality that cannot be reduced to a single “perfect” expression.

A senior portrait session is about more than recording what your child looks like at eighteen. It is about honoring who they are in this extraordinary, fleeting moment between childhood and whatever comes next.

That is why I love creating these nine-grid portraits. Together, the photographs say:

This is you.
All of you.
And look at how very much there is to celebrate.

This is the heart of all my portrait work, including Mantra Portraiture: helping people recognize what is already beautiful, powerful and fully present within them.

Which version of your teenager would absolutely have to appear in their nine-grid?

Margie is an extraordinary spiritual entrepreneur and teacher working with Natural Law in Worcester, Massachusetts. She ...
08/05/2026

Margie is an extraordinary spiritual entrepreneur and teacher working with Natural Law in Worcester, Massachusetts. She helps people recognize the principles that connect us to ourselves, to one another and to something larger.

For her portrait, Margie chose the ancient mantra:

Om Asato Ma Sadgamaya
Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya
Mrityor Ma Amritam Gamaya

Lead me from the unreal to the real.
Lead me from darkness to light.
Lead me from death to immortality.

During a Mantra Meditation portrait, the words are not simply placed around the finished photograph. The mantra is repeated, written, breathed and embodied. The portrait becomes a record of someone entering into relationship with the words they have chosen.

Margie sits here with her eyes closed, completely grounded in herself, while the mantra moves around her like a field of intention.

This is what I am exploring through the Mantra Meditation Project: the place where language, spiritual practice and portraiture meet.

What words are guiding you from darkness toward light right now?

When families book a high school senior portrait with me, I always ask one question:“Can we make time for a few family p...
08/04/2026

When families book a high school senior portrait with me, I always ask one question:

“Can we make time for a few family portraits, too?”

Because this remarkable young person didn’t become who they are in isolation.

They were cheered on after soccer games.
Driven to dance lessons.
Comforted through heartbreaks.
Celebrated after victories.
Loved through ordinary Tuesday nights.

A high school senior portrait celebrates one extraordinary milestone.

But it also celebrates the people who quietly helped make it possible.

And there’s another reason I encourage it...

This may be one of the last times your whole family stands together in front of a camera before life changes.

Next year someone may be away at college.
Soon there may be internships, first apartments, jobs, travel, relationships, and lives unfolding in different directions.

The next professional family portrait might not happen until someone’s wedding.

That’s why I love weaving both experiences together.

We spend time creating beautiful portraits that celebrate your senior exactly as they are in this fleeting season of life...
..and then we gather everyone together.

Parents.
Siblings.
Even the dog.

Because someday these photographs won’t simply remind you what everyone looked like.

They’ll remind you what it felt like to belong to one another.

And in the end, that’s the portrait that often becomes the family favorite.

08/01/2026

I’ve spent much of my life noticing.

With a camera, I notice the fleeting expression, the gesture, the light falling across a face.

With words, I notice the stories unfolding beneath the surface—the encounters that seem ordinary until something opens and reveals a deeper meaning.

This is an excerpt from a short story of mine published in Writrix, Volume One: Coloring with Words, a collection created by Leslie Berliant. I paired it with a dragonfly I filmed last week: another small, luminous messenger asking me to stop and pay attention.

In this passage, a stranger on the Airporter Express tells me, “You are an angel sent to tell me this.”

I wonder if perhaps we all are angels.

Light beings sent here to help one another—carrying words, images and messages that someone else may need. But if we keep ourselves crazily busy all the time, we may never hear them.

This is also the heart of Mantra Portraiture.

It is not simply about making a beautiful photograph. It is about slowing down long enough to recognize what is already present: the beauty, wisdom and essential nature we so often overlook in ourselves and one another.

Photography. Writing. Yoga. Sacred attention.

I’m beginning to understand that these were never separate paths. They are all ways of listening—and of reflecting back what I see.

Perhaps the real question is not whether messengers are all around us.

Perhaps it is whether we are quiet enough to notice them.

Have you ever received a message through an unexpected encounter?

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