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  • Travelogue: Scotland Part 2

    Debra Wallace

    Travelogue: Scotland Part 2 It’s that time of year when fall is 100% over, you know you’re not going to get a random warm day, the power’s been out at least once, and you’re due for a snow storm. I’m pretty sure this is usually the time of year when vacations seem especially wonderful and

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  • Travelogue: Scotland

    Debra Wallace

    Travelogue: Scotland A huge shout out to Airbnb and Norwegian Air for making this trip cheaper than going to Devner! Norwegian’s flights out of Newburgh, NY are ridiculously inexpensive, IF you’re willing to travel light and skip the extras, which we definitely were for the chance to go. I might have actually picked a warmer

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  • Explore Rochester ~ Sam Patch Boat Tours

    Debra Wallace

    Explore Rochester ~ Sam Patch Boat Tours My initial plan was to take my kids to popular photo locations and blog about it, but my plans got a little derailed by real life.  My husband was offered some (high pressure) work over the summer, plus camps, traveling, and working on the garden have meant less

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  • The Grief Divide ~ How to Talk to a Grieving Person

    Debra Wallace

    The Grief Divide ~ How to Talk to a Grieving Person Where do non-photography related posts fit in?  Right here.  Because, well, life. Over the past two months, too much death has happened.   Our son died.  An incredible woman from the 2015 cast of Listen to Your Mother lost her son when he was hit

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  • The Life and Death of our Son Christian

    Debra Wallace

    The Life and Death of our Son Christian I became a parent with a phone call and a trek into a sketchy area of the city to pick up two children I’d never met. The day care was the scary kind – with no furniture and things covered in plastic. A beautiful little boy caught

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  • Washington DC ~ the White House, Smithsonians and a Toddler

    Debra Wallace

    Washington DC ~ the White House, Smithsonians and a Toddler We usually reserve our traveling for the summer when I drag my husband to beaches (even if it’s just Lake Ontario) but this trip was his idea.  A very close friend of his lives near DC and just had a baby, so after some planning,

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  • Sleep ~ a Celebration

    Debra Wallace

    Dedicated to Beth, who knows better than anyone and to Erin, in case she really wanted to know. It’s been a rough fall The order was tall To complete all the tasks we acquired Jason’s overload meant That much more time was spent At the college than we were accustomed Research at the lab And

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  • Before your hair falls out

    Debra Wallace

    My mom was diagnosed with ovarian cancer five years ago, which ended the world.  Surgery and chemo got rid of it the first time, then the second, then the third.  Now we’re on round four – we because cancer is a whole family experience. My mom has always hated her hair because she thinks it’s thin and

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  • Christmas Tree Decorating 2014

    Debra Wallace

    I was having a little bit more fun with my GoPro and new video editing software.  This is to my favorite Christmas song of all time, in a tongue in cheek kind of way.  I do have to confess this is a highlight reel – my mom wasn’t feeling well, my husband was gone, and

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  • Great Wolf Lodge, Niagara Falls

    Debra Wallace

    We have a love affair with Great Wolf Lodge.  Where else can you scream down water slides, eat mahi mahi and lamb while your kids feast on chicken fingers, or run around a hotel barefoot playing Magiquest?  As your trip goes on, your kids will likely collect a host of actually high quality souvenirs.  The gift

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  • Halloween Costumes and Growing Up

    Debra Wallace

    In the past I have been a Halloween Scrooge.  I know quite a few people object to Halloween on principle and I don’t necessarily disagree with their thoughts about it.  I’m not one for bats and skeletons.  But we moved to a cul-de-sac style neighborhood where everyone knows each other and suddenly costumes and candy

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  • Ithaca, NY 4th of July Fireworks Displays Cayuga Lake Style

    Debra Wallace

    The neighbor’s illegal fireworks were the closest and most magnificent but there was also something about being on a dock in the middle of hundreds of people setting them off in a sort of surround sound experience that added to the effect.  My 5 year old son said, “This is the best night EVER.”  

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  • A Thousand Good-byes

    Debra Wallace

    by Debra Wallace A glove without a hand, a toy without batteries, a car without gas, a video game without a child.  Those are our words to our children to explain this taboo thing.  It’s not supposed to happen and if it does you’re not supposed to talk about it – ask my kids.  Even

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  • Do you have something unique to offer the world?

    Debra Wallace

    by Debra Wallace A typical conversation I have with people goes something like this: “So, do you work?”“I’m a portrait photographer.”“There are SO MANY PHOTOGRAPHERS, especially in Rochester!” And there really are.  I have no idea how many photographers there are in Rochester, but it is definitely a lot. There are also a lot of

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  • I Fell in Love With You ~ Chili, NY baby portrait photography

    Debra Wallace

    by Debra Wallace My mom says I have said this to all of my babies.  But every time it’s been true.  I love your baby, I promise, but no one can fill me with joy quite like this guy.  It’s not favoritism so much as a well timed birth during a difficult year.  We lost

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