THE JOURNAL

Planning a styled shoot for a workshop in another country comes with a lot of unknowns. You can’t control the weather, we were unsure of vendor participation…. not to mention the difficult task of packing everything in our suitcases. We laughed at the ridiculousness of it all: wedding dresses (3 of them, because you just […]

I think DC weddings have got to be my favorite. Actually, DC anything is probably my favorite – I could shoot families (like Sandra and her twin boys!), engagements (like Amber and Matt’s cherry blossom session), or anniversary photos (like Maria and Seth’s National Gallery of Art session), and my heart would be happy, happy, […]

It is always such a joy for me to reconnect with past couples whose weddings I shot. I love to see the way their love has changed since they’ve settled into the married life. They tend to appear more confident in being wrapped up in each other, or more easily make each other laugh and […]

We met some fun friends on Instagram who invited us down to their homestead in Iowa. We parked our trailer in their driveway and spent the evening petting chickens, horses, a rabbit, and kittens (I got asked several times by my kids if we could possibly take a kitty into the trailer with us….I said, […]

I can still remember the day of Katie and Scott’s wedding like it was just yesterday. It was my first downtown DC wedding, and I had decided that it would be easier for me to take the metro in, instead of driving my car and struggling with parking. However, I was almost as unfamiliar with […]