• mandee + wes + burton

    in keeping with the theme of my last post….first comes love (see above left engagement photo, circa 2011), then comes marriage, then comes a baby named burton (above right)! john and i had such an amazing week last week in florida with two of our best couple friends, mandee and wes being one of the couples. the 6 of us have been taking vacation together ever year for the last 6 years. since we were unable to be at their wedding back in october of 2011, we wanted to do engagement photos that year on vacation. and this year, two years later, they introduced their sweet little boy, burton, to…

  • justin + cristi + samuel

      first comes love, then comes marriage (above left, circa 2008), and then comes samuel (pictured atop justin’s head, above right)! i had the happiest honor of photographing a mini session with these hotties last week in florida. these people are like family to my husband john and me. we were 2 of the small handful of people present at their intimate courthouse wedding 5 years ago and now we get samuel as an awesome bonus to our happy friendship. samuel just turned 3 a few weeks ago and, as you can see below, he’s quite proud of it :)   just wanted to share a few images from our…

  • ava is one!

    let’s rewind it back to about 5 years ago when i first met katie and b. they found out about me through a mutual friend and hired me to take their engagement photos (how cute are they??) at the old rocketown building (which was torn down to accomodate what is now the ginormous music city center). it was right around the one year mark after i started my business and it was one of the very first engagement sessions i ever shot. fast forward to present day…they now have a beautiful one year old girl named ava. of course, i was thrilled when they contacted me to do her photos…