Journal

Great minds think alike, right? When Bryce’s mom, Bianca, first contacted me about cake smash photos for his first birthday, she let me know that it would be a “Where the Wild Things Are” themed photo session to match his upcoming party. Rewind to about a month before when I had done the same theme […]

I first connected with Hailey through her mother, Elyzabeth, during what seemed like the endless winter months here in Virginia, so the thought of a spring portrait session was something to look forward to. About a week before our session Elyzabeth emailed to ask if we could change the location of our session to her […]

When Sarah first got in touch with me and let me know that she wanted to take her maternity photos at the same place she and Kevin were married a few years ago, I knew it was going to be a great session. With that kind of romance how could it not be? Then when […]

Eight years ago I was lucky enough to meet Emily and Zach, and since then they’ve become some of my dearest friends. We’ve had too many fun times together to count, and they were some of the first people to meet my son Hudson. Now that they’re expecting a little girl of their own, I […]

Ask any girl who they trust the most in life and their hair stylist is right up there. My girl Deniz is no exception. She’s a miracle worker. She’s also an amazing mother to her little guy Troy. I had the pleasure of photographing their family back around the holidays, and it was so much […]

Earlier this winter I was all set to to photograph the adorable Liam at his Winter Onederland birthday party when winter storm Jonas decided to dump a few feet of snow on us. Fast forward a few weeks to his rescheduled birthday party and it ended up being a gorgeous spring-like Saturday afternoon. Mother Nature’s […]

Starting a new business is challenging in a lot of ways. At least in my experience, it has been. There’s been the challenge of learning how to build a website, Mark Zuckerburg I am not. There’s been the challenge of finding pockets of time between raising an energetic nine month old, a full time teaching […]

My life was about the change forever and I didn’t even know it. Almost a year ago today I grabbed my new Cannon camera and asked my husband Tyler to snap a quick photo of me as snow fell down around us. I was infinitely content on that day, nesting and beginning to prepare for […]