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Robinwood Photography’s Home Office

Sunday the family and I hiked over to IKEA to search their vast showroom storefront for a desk for me to set up for my home office.  If you have ever been to IKEA you know you can’t just walk in and walk to the desks.  The store’s designers crafted the layout of the showroom…

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Proof He Loves Me

My husband loves me.  He makes me pizza.  From scratch. Even the cheese. When you come home from work after a long and stressful week it’s nice to have the world’s best pizza waiting for you.  And now he has run to the store to get some ice cream for dessert.  That’s a good man….

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I am smarter than my camera!

Several months ago I noticed that a fellow photographer posted the following line on his message board signature “I shoot RAW because I am smarter than my camera.”  I chuckled at his wit and went about my normal business. While we were on our Honeymoon in Hawaii I realized that I, also, am smarter than…

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Training My Children

Plato said “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” We found a parked train on Sunday…don’t worry, it was in the country,…

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A Perfect Storm

I love being a photographer, but I have a lot more going on in my life right now.  If you didn’t know it I hold down a day job as a paralegal. (One day I will have a comic book about my life as a paralegal by day, crime fighting photographer by night, but I…

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My Favorite Bluebonnet Picture

More from my photo vault: Last weekend I went through my “scrap closet”.  This is the closet in my house where I have shoved all of my scrapbook supplies.  Years of collecting, countless dollars spent and all the good intentions that I have had for those supplies.  Somehow life gets in the way and I…

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Food!

One of my guilty pleasures is photographing my food.  In my family food is an expression of love and togetherness.  I have recently started a project documenting all of my family recipes.  Many of my grandmother’s recipes are “a little of this, and a dash of that.”  I hope to incorporate my two favorite loves–photography and food, into a wonderful keepsake cookbook…

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The Story Behind Robinwood Photography

When I was a fairly young girl my grandparents were faced with a dilemma.  Our family farm was being put up for sale.  They knew they would miss weekends in the country and also felt that it was important that all of the children grow up knowing about country living.  After a search they found the…

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