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“We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
~ Jandy Nelson // I’ll Give You The Sun

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Not too long ago, I found myself walking through an old neighborhood that I had grown up in. It had been close to a decade since I had last visited and as I strolled along the sidewalk, each of my kids by my side, it felt like opening up a storybook and reading the pages […]

ANGELICA & DEVIN: ENGAGEMENT

July 3, 2023

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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 […]

DANA & DAVE: ENGAGEMENT

February 21, 2020

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When you are the middle of starting a business, you never really know where that business is going to take you. You never know the obstacles that you might face and the people you might meet and the direction you might go. My goal at the time was to create art and be present for […]

KATIE & RYAN: WEDDING

October 14, 2019

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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 […]

JESSICA & PHILIP: WEDDING

October 6, 2019

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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 […]

JAMIE & RON: WEDDING

September 14, 2019

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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 […]

KATIE & RYAN: ENGAGEMENT

July 13, 2019