I liked Elayna and Kendall from the moment I met them. We met first at a coffee shop, then spent an afternoon together for their engagement session. I learned the things one can learn by interacting with solely a couple – what they’re like and how they compliment one another, and when the story of...
If there’s one group of people that can always make me feel at home, it’s farm kids. While I grew up the daughter of a farmer in a rural farming community, I always sort of envied the livestock kids – the corn and beans I had always known weren’t quite as glamorous in my young...
I don’t cry during every wedding I photograph. To claim doing so would not only be inaccurate, it would also be insincerely romanticizing what I do and how weddings in general affect me emotionally, at least in the visible sense. It’s not that my lack of tearing up means that I care about any of...
It rained for the last hour of my drive to St. Augustine that morning, a small town I had never been to prior to Johanna and Clint’s wedding day. As the stylist started curling Johanna’s hair, I pulled the back-up umbrellas out of my vehicle, preparing for the continued forecast of intermittent rain throughout the...
One of the things I like most about photographing weddings is the unexpected candidness of it all. Sure, there is a traditional schedule and formula they all typically follow for the most part, but each wedding tends to take on it’s own qualities and quirks as based on the couple – who they are individually,...
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