“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese My new life goal is simply to walk the world. There i[...]
Sometimes a wedding is about creating beauty...and sometimes it just has everything, appears effortless, and has all of the feels to go with it. Liz + Tom's Tavern Ballroom wedding at the Chesapeake Bay Beach club was all about the feels, the lovely, and the magnificent celebration. I want to tell you that the day was filled with so many sweet, tender, and funny moments...like Liz lit[...]
Engagement sessions should be unique. It should be about you, the way you love one another. Allison and Wes' Annapolis Naval Academy engagement photos are just so them. Which is why these photos are so special - Allison has been a lifelong friend. She has always been vibrant, smiley, energetic, and brilliant. Seeing her so happy, so herself, so comfortable and so loved brings more j[...]
They had no idea they'd end up together. Over lunch at The Smith, she told me that they met in college when he found out that she cut hair. And he needed a hair cut. But at that time she never would have guessed that he'd be the one she'd decide to say yes to forever to. It wasn't until they both decided to call New York City home that discovered they also might find one in each other.[...]
I don't know why it hasn't occurred to me to put it into words before, but when people ask what I photograph, I have always deferred to the obvious, the actual things that pass in front of my camera: weddings and portraits. Except that while that's true, it is in some ways too vague and not an exact distillation of what my heart begs for more of. Because what really brings me joy a[...]
I don't know exactly what he whispered in her ear at their first look, but the awe on his face gave away his feelings about the woman walking toward him - that she was the most beautiful and lovely thing he'd ever seen. And in return, her face lit up with the biggest, happiest, most fulfilled smile when they saw each other for the first time on their wedding day, as they held e[...]
In storytelling, beginnings are just as important as endings. There's no right or wrong way to start a relationship, and although I love the beginning to every love story, I will always have a special place in my heart for the couples who started their relationship as teenagers, for the sole reason that it is my beginning too. The long phone conversations, tearful goodbyes, and weekend[...]
More than anything in the world, I love photographing people in love. It's a truth that wedding days go by in a blur. And although every wedding is beautiful and filled with all kinds of love and so much celebration, the romantic side of love sometimes gets only a few moments of attention and consideration and maybe a little bit left aside in the wake of the overwhelming wave of joy[...]
"Rain or shine, I'm marrying Brian today!" she posted the morning of their Flag House wedding. Every bride worries about the weather on her wedding day, spends the days before the big day dreading that rain will make their day somehow less of a celebration than it would be otherwise. But no doubt, Erin and Brian will tell you this: the weather...it has absolutely no effect on h[...]
If I could possibly fill a wedding day with all of the perfect things - love, joy, colors, cheering, celebration, personality, and a sprinkling of magic - well, it would probably look exactly like this. For a day predicted to be filled with thunderstorms, the sky remained incredibly clear when they needed it to, with only a giggle of a sprinkle just before the ceremony - a sprinkle tha[...]