I’m pretty sure that the only thing more emotionally charged for me than photographing my little brother’s wedding is photographing my little sister’s engagement photos. Well, for now anyway: in a couple months, I will be able to speak to the bittersweet topsy turvy that will be walking my baby sister’s wedding. But as if the very prospect…

“There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t met yet.” William Butler Yeats We rode the incline railroad together, but barely noticed each other in the excitement of riding a train backwards straight up the mountain. We wandered around Lookout Mountain together, but had no reason to interact as we peered over the Chattanooga…

When Matt & Kristen and I were trying to coordinate a date for engagement shoot, my (very brief) weekend in North Carolina was already plumb full except for one dreaded sunrise slot on a Monday morning.  I’m not sure which is more amazing: my willingness to get up at 6am while jetlagged (that’s 3am PST,…

He was sitting on a rock shaped like a chair.  Not just a rock, you see, but a rock with a footstool and a comfortable curve. The perfect rock, of course, and a gleeful triumph for him on that August day while he waited for the rest of the hiking group to show up.  It…

  He swept her into his arms, bending at the waist to swoop her into a majestic dip, then – rising tall – he swung her back and forth in quick, rhythmic, glee around and around.  It’s their own – signature – swing dance move complete with crazy, dramatic, silly faces.  That combination of classic…

You know how sometimes circumstances change dramatically in the eleventh hour? And sometimes it’s ridiculously discouraging?  And often it’s hard to see the beauty of the change? One week ago, it was a deliriously warm and sunny Sunday afternoon in southern California.  This Canadaland resident was basking in the glow of her red-white-and-blue homeland, the…