We had plans. The best laid plans. But you know what they say about the best laid plans. Mice come and steal them away or something like that? I don’t know, I’m not great with adages. Steph and David are east coasters who are currently living the west coast dream. Meeting in school at Virginia Tech, […]

I’m just gonna come out and say it: Evan and Casey’s relationship is the embodiment of most of my very favorite things. 1) Wild adventurousness. 2) Adoring sass. 3) A deep and abiding love of doughnuts. So, clearly, when we first got together to chat about their wedding day, it was basically love at first […]

Imagine: for your birthday, your boyfriend—the one who you grew up with you, who endured 1,000 miles of long distance between Radford, VA and Lincoln, NE with you throughout college, who now shares your home and adorable dog child, the one who is undoubtedly the love of your life—gifts you the best present you could […]

Tori and Evan were the last couple in front of my lens in 2015, and I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. At one point during our shoot, I asked Evan to look at Tori and give her his best flirty face, as if he’d just seen her across the room and was trying […]

These days, I’m honestly quite fortunate to have most every session I shoot feel like a reunion with old friends. Somehow I’ve been lucky enough to meet and work with clients who are just as weird and wild and in love with terrible jokes as I am, and it makes capturing their love on camera an […]

Pay attention, boys, this post contains some important information for you especially. We all know that we live in an era of texts and snapchats and—shudder—Facebook messages. There are a million ways to quickly have a “conversation” with another person, but sometimes at the end of the day, none of them really end up feeling […]

It’d been a few weeks of trying to nail down the perfect location for their engagement session, and we weren’t having much luck. In fact, it wasn’t until the morning of their session that we confirmed permission at the beautiful Afton Mountain Vineyard in Charlottesville, Virginia, but once we got the go ahead and I […]

When I first “met” Lindsay via the future-magic that is Skype, she explained to me the continent-crossing map that is hers and Dave’s history. She grew up in Virginia, Dave grew up in San Francisco. They met in Los Angeles, Dave’s family moved to Virginia, Lindsay and Dave moved to New York, where they now […]

Lindsay got off the plane in California and she knew it was coming in the way that you know it’s about to pour right before it rains. They were ready, they were vacationing in Sonoma Wine Country for a long weekend, and it was time. Also, Nick was not great at keeping secrets 😉 Lindsay […]

I’ve said it before and I’ll never hesitate to say it again: one of my favorite parts of what I get to do is meeting some of the sweetest souls around, and I’m not even just talking about brides and grooms. The magical thing about wedding photography is that it’s a rare day that I […]