A Proposal Disguised as a Dog Photo Session Patrick came up with one of my favorite proposal plans to date. Instead of telling Emily he had planned an Isle of Palms beach proposal, he told her he had booked a photographer to take photos of them with their dogs at the beach near Charleston, SC. […]
Slow Mornings at Middleton Place Morning sessions at Middleton Place always feel so sweet. The gardens are quiet, the light coming through the oaks is clean and soft, and everything just moves slower before Charleston fully wakes up for the day. This Middleton Place family session in Charleston, SC was with one of the sweetest […]
Running a photography business comes with a constant pull toward more. I made a deliberate decision to go the other way, and it has shaped everything about how I work. Limiting my sessions is not about exclusivity for its own sake. It is about what happens to the quality of my work, and to the […]
Most families come to me thinking about the photos. The specific images they want. The outfits. The location. Whether everyone will look good. What they walk away with is something different. And it usually takes a few years before they fully understand what that is. It’s Not the Image. It’s the Evidence. When your kids […]
An engagement session shouldn’t feel like something you have to “get through.” It should feel like time the two of you actually enjoy together. But a lot of couples show up feeling a little nervous. Maybe you’ve never been in front of a professional camera before. Maybe you’re wondering what to wear, where to go, […]
Everyone’s got an opinion about where you should take your engagement photos. The popular beach spot. The trendy downtown mural wall. The location you’ve seen in about forty other couples’ galleries this year. But here’s the thing. The most beautiful engagement photos aren’t always taken at the most popular spots. They’re taken at places that […]
You’ve seen them. Those timeless engagement photos that still look stunning ten years later. The ones where you can feel the couple’s connection just by looking at the image. And then you’ve seen the ones that feel very “of their time,” where everything from the pose to the editing screams a specific year. So, what […]
A mommy and me photo session among blooming apple blossoms, celebrating quiet motherhood moments with a curious nine-month-old baby.
A Proposal Planned in Philadelphia Alley When Jeff first reached out about planning a Charleston proposal in Philadelphia Alley, it was immediately clear how excited he was. A little nervous too, but the good kind of nervous that usually means someone is about to ask a very important question. After talking through a few ideas, […]
A Sunrise Start on Isle of Palms One of my favorite things about vacation sessions is getting to photograph families when everyone has made the trip to be together. For this session on Isle of Palms, family members had come in from all over to spend time on the coast, which made it the perfect […]
