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Unique Wedding Inspiration for Couples Who Dare to Be Different A non-traditional wedding can look like whatever you want it to—because at its heart, a wedding is simply a celebration of your marriage. Some of my favorite ways couples have made their day truly their own include: The key to making your wedding unique is […]
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I want to talk a little bit about something I’m super passionate about: printing your photos. I cannot emphasize this enough: A digital file should NOT be viewed as the end-product of your session. A printed photo or album needs to be. Here’s why: A couple of years ago when I was working as a […]
A common misconception is that eloping is just two people, an officiant and a photographer. And it CAN look like that! About a quarter of my couples who elope choose a “just us” experience. But most of my couples who choose to elope actually invite a handful of guests to be with them. Often, it’s […]
Best of 2019 Engagement and Portrait Sessions I had a terrible time this year with hard drives — I think I had three crash from January to December. Fortunately it was more of an expensive, annoying problem than a data loss problem. That’s because part of my workflow is that I never delete images off […]
WHAT a year y’all. I went through more than 15,000 edited photos for this blog post ALONE (and this year in review post is just focused on weddings and elopements!) Total, I think I took something along the lines of 50,000 images that documented 20 weddings or elopements in five states (Maryland, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West […]
I don’t shoot a ton of maternity, family or newborn sessions, but occasionally I’ll take them on with the caveat that I still won’t do a lot of posing. Instead, we focus on what I always try and focus on — relationships, environment and drawing out authentic interactions. Sami and Joe are trying to visit […]
This summer has been one wild and crazy ride — mostly because it was my busiest wedding season ever and, simultaneously, I was in the final months of pregnancy. I’ve been really lucky with my pregnancy in that I’ve been healthy, had relatively few symptoms, and have been able to remain active for its entirety. […]
It’s rare that I shoot photos just-for-fun in the middle of wedding season, but in late May my husband Austin and I flew to California for a week-long vacation in the Monterey/San Francisco bay area. Austin loves to plan trips. Every few months a new guidebook comes in the mail for a destination we’ve only […]
This Virginia elopement was shot at three locations — we began at an airbnb/vacation rental called Bailey’s Retreat outside of Charlottesville where their ceremony also took place. Rainy and Joey have been legally married for about a year and were planning a big destination wedding in Mexico when they found out they were expecting a […]
Shenandoah National Park is full of beautiful hikes, but Mary’s Rock is one of my favorites. It’s beautiful for both sunrise and sunset, but you don’t have to get on Skyline Drive or the Blue Ridge Parkway to access it so it’s a great option for late fall-early spring engagement or couples sessions. (Skyline Drive […]
