To the lighthouse

One of my favorite shots so far, I just had to share it! I took it last night while exploring the ice patterns around the Charlevoix lighthouse at sunset and I feel like this scene really captures the peacefulness up here at the moment. Many more images coming, probably tomorrow morning when the internet is [...]

Snow Covered Lakes

My first full day in wintertime Charlevoix. Woke with no agenda, here's a photo essay (provided by my iPhone) of the day. Tomorrow is a new day and with it comes new adventures.

A cover letter for My Destination

It seems like all I have been thinking about lately is the Biggest Baddest Bucket List competition and scrambling to get votes for my entry. Though the more I think about it, the more I think of it as a job application because, if I win, it would be a ginormous advancement to my career. [...]

Mista, mista! Get me outta here!

Do you ever feel like that? Not that you're being held prisoner in a nursing home by a crazily mustached Ben Stiller, but simply that desperation of GET ME OUTTA HERE! I feel that at least twice a month. Ask my friends, my mom, my sisters... I frequently throw up my hands and announce, "I [...]

Wanderlust

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Send me on my way

I have recently entered the Biggest Baddest Bucket List contest with a pretty amazing grand prize: a 6 months all-expenses paid trip around the world and a $50,000 cash prize upon return. The winner will be reporting for My Destination, a travel company out of the UK, about the experience and will be regularly supplying [...]

Lake Michigan Love

I remember the first time I saw the ocean I was unimpressed. I grew up on the shores of gorgeous Lake Michigan and, in my mind, there's no body of water a beautiful. Family portrait season means lots of time at the beach. These were taken at Gilson Beach in Wilmette, IL yesterday afternoon and [...]

Charlevoix by iPhone

I've been in Charlevoix, MI since Monday.  My family has had property up here since my mom was little and I have countless memories of rolling down the hill with my cousin, breakfast picnics at Depot Beach, running with the dogs on the bluff and, of course, hundreds and hundreds of hours on the water. [...]