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If you’re searching for a place to meet friendly farm animals near Boston—where kids can boop a horse’s nose, feed alpacas, and throw hay on a cow’s head—our family farm might be just the spot. And just so you have some ice breakers and familiarity with these silly beasts before you do visit, I put […]

A hidden gem for relaxed pumpkin picking and hay rides, minutes from Boston in Lincoln, MA Flint Farm · Lincoln, Massachusetts Pick-your-own pumpkins, weekends in October Field update · October 2 We’re open this weekend for pumpkin picking, Saturday, October 3 and Sunday, October 4, from 12 to 4. There won’t be hay rides this […]

One MetroWest family, eight fall sessions on the farm. What changes, what stays the same, and why annual family photos are worth doing.

It was 10:30 PM and I had one more chore: build an Easter scavenger hunt for a four-year-old. I tried to outsource it to an AI bot. Then I looked up at my dad’s painting.

The night we got to Maine, I slept on a love seat. Not a couch. A love seat. What followed was three hours of delirium, a trash bag curtain, and a wasp nest.

The most common question I get before a session isn’t about outfits or timing or whether the kids will cooperate. It’s some version of this: how do we look natural in family photos? The honest answer is that you probably can’t make it happen. But you can stop preventing it. I’ve been photographing families on […]

What’s the amazing thing, you ask? It’s a red maple tree that is flowering outside my house right now. That’s not amazing, you say? Well, have you considered the fact that every one of those flowers is a sex organ? I don’t mean that as a metaphor. That’s literally what they are. Inside every bloom […]

I’m a professional headshot and family portrait photographer based just west of Boston, and one of the most common things I hear is from my clients is that “I hate photos of myself,” or a thousand varieties of it. I used to almost shrug it off by saying well so does everyone, and it’s a […]

This article is about how I use AI as a writing tool, without losing my soul in the process. My writing process starts like this. I unscrew a valve in the side of my head, lean over, and thousands of Lego pieces fall out. Some of them are already put together. Most aren’t. Little Lego […]

This guide isn’t about logistics. You’ve got those. It’s about how to actually be inside the day when it arrives. So the photos, the memories, and the kid in front of you don’t slip by while you’re managing everything else. You’ve been planning this for over a year. Maybe two. The venue. The DJ. The […]

When I saw the car approaching in the distance, a familiar mixture of concern and wishful thinking soaked into me. As they got closer, the concern turned to spite and the hope that they’d slow down drained away. I squared my body up to them. I wanted them to see the look of disapproval on […]