Hula Hoop // Playful lifestyle editorial For the past five years, it has been an immense pleasure and privilege to tell everyone else's stories - their love stories, their wedding stories, their family stories. But now it's time to start telling some stories of my own. I have no idea how this works for everyone else who is a creative, but for me there is often a soul-crushing gap between[...]
It took me a while to come up with exactly where our paths first crossed, but I think it might have been middle school theater, when Kelly played Annie in Annie while I was in the chorus of what was our yearly middle school musical, and she became my idol and role model and the person I most wanted to be like in the world. And then I got to know her, sitting beside her in chorus in hi[...]
Pool parties in the desert always seemed kind of oxymoronish to me. I'm not sure if you know this, but if playing in the water is your idea of fun, the desert isn't exactly the place you'd think to go. Or so they say. Maybe they haven't been to Palm Springs, where a pool party in the desert is very much the legendary thing to do. And yet, it seems like the desert should get a chance to[...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] At the end of every winter when I dream of planting a garden for spring, I google palm trees that will grow in Maryland. And every year, google tells me that palm trees will grow here, but they cannot withstand the winter unless I bring them inside, and this, I know without asking google, is not something I can sneak past my husband. But that's exactly why I l[...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Courage. It takes courage to try something new, to do something outside the circle of comfort, even just to get started. Over the holiday break, I sat in my hammock chair and made goals for the new year. To find a community. To find new things to photograph. To use the quiet winter time to stretch (literally and figuratively). To do things that nourish my soul[...]
I spent last week swinging in my hammock chair ruminating on the year that ended and dreaming all the things for the one that just began. It was the first time in over four years that I've had an open space in my schedule for just thinking, hoping, and dreaming - no shoots, no weddings, no work really at all. It was completely and utterly magical. Maybe simply because it involved a ham[...]
Reason 5264 I LOVE Katie and Ron and their USNA Chapel and Loews Annapolis wedding: Ron's version of their love story. read more[...]
It's making photos like this that makes the craziest time of the year completely worth it and then some.read more[...]
My favorite people to work with are the dreamers.read more[...]
Pinks, oranges, yellows, teals...those magic sunrise on the water colors and sun flares all over. All the yes to that and Georgetown waterfront engagement sessions. read more[...]