We lovingly started calling ourselves “Bodyguards of Joy.” Here we were, in the middle of a global pandemic, believing that life still needed to be celebrated, needed to be remembered, needed to be documented. We believed that a virus could take a lot of things from us, but joy didn’t have to be one of […]

It’s not about what you do or what you have or what you know. It’s about who you are. Love…is about who you are. It’s about the lessons you’ve learned and the struggles you’ve overcome and the stories you’ve lived. It’s about letting someone else’s heart see all of your heart and then holding that […]

I never expected it to happen. When I first picked up a camera, ten years ago, I never expected it to happen. I never expected to fall in love. With the way light would fall across a room or the way two people could smile at each other or the way my soul expanded while […]

When I first became a photographer, I found a lot of inspiration in other photographers. I followed blogs and watched tutorials and tried really hard to become the same type of artist that I admired. It was a lot of fun at first because discovering who you are is really fun. But eventually, I found […]

Photographing someone’s wedding day is an oddly intimate relationship to share. You come into the quiet, the stillness, the lingering moments, and you hope to capture the space in between so that they can never be lost. You stand present for the tears, the anticipation, the immense joy, and you try to document the emotion […]

You know what’s funny about spending the majority of your time with couples?? You sometimes forget that they weren’t always a couple. You forget that they each have individual histories. You forget that they didn’t always know each other. You forget that their stories weren’t always one. Or were they? I often catch myself wondering […]