Family

This February, join me in Richmond for Valentine’s Day Mini Sessions! Whether you’re looking to snag some portraits with your boo, or do Mommy & Me portraits, or just get dolled up with your girlfriends and do a BFF shoot… I’d love to see you! BOOK HERE! Where: indoor (a must with these temps we […]

With the changing leaves and temperatures comes time for your fall family photos! While we see the remnants of summer in the rearview mirror, so many of us in the VA-DC-MD area are itching for autumn! Every family and wedding photographer is excitedly waiting for the beauty ahead in front of our camera lenses these […]

It’s easy to be excited, for obvious reasons, that my brother, Clark, and his girl Sarah are getting married next year! (Peep part one of their engagement photo session from a few months ago!) Some of those clear reasons are 1) we are getting an amazing new sister-in-law, 2) we love watching what these two […]

There are few greater honors as a photographer than having friends ask you year after year to photograph their families. One of my best friends from college, Tara, has been a model for my camera since I began shooting on a DSLR in 2010! She was the roommate I dragged outside in the middle of […]

Mini sessions are such a great way for couples and families to get beautiful photos in a shorter window of time! While I love more extensive sessions where we can capture your crew in 60-90 minutes through many areas and outfits around a park, city, or a specific venue, sometimes 20 minutes is all you […]

Alright y’all… these guys are not only one of my favorite families for personal reasons (I lived with them for the six months leading up to getting married!), but WOW are they multicultural beauties!!! What happens when you blend a German-Italian man with a Laotian lady? This delightful trio: As you all know, interracial families […]

(June 2023) This week marks 56 years since the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Mildred and Richard Loving’s fight to make interracial marriage legal in the U.S. Only five and a half decades ago, it was illegal in Virginia and fifteen other states for me and Adetola to be married! Mildred (black) and Richard […]

WOOOOHOOOO, baby #2 is comin so soon for these wonderful friends!!!! We recently met at Ft. Monroe Beach in Hampton to snag some photos as they prepare to welcome their second son this summer. It truly feels like yesterday I was taking maternity photos featuring little Matthias himself!!! How quickly life goes. That is one […]

The beach, these beauties, and braving boisterously cold temps… These are who shower the blog today! I loved my time on Ft. Story military base with the Smiths, and they were such troopers in the 40 degree wind chill! Their images leave me smiling and thankful for the beautiful people I get to capture! Hoping […]

As we hit the one year anniversary this week of covid descending on our nation and changing all our lives in various ways, I have been thankful as I reflect on the people God knit around me in my life as a single lady, so that even in the changes and ebb and flow of […]

Last night, I got to meet and hold the little newborn man who is one of the stars in today’s photoshoot… how fast time goes!! (Though for preggo Mamas, I know things can often seen slooowwww… that was Sen during this session, just eager and waiting for baby Judah to get outta her belly!) This […]

Have you ever gotten to a location near where you live and wondered how in the world you had never ventured there before??? That’s how I felt pulling into Hermitage Museum & Garden last weekend. I could have shot there for HOURS!!!!! Next year, I will definitely be scheduling a day of mini-sessions around the […]

Oh. My. Lanta. How I love these photos and these THREE people!!! Beth is a sister from my church who I have walked through life with more closely these last two years. She is one of the kindest people I know, so full of compassion and sincere care for others. Her husband Will is also […]

Virginia continues to give us a run for our money with a mixture of fall and summer weather, and I ain’t complainin’!!! Families are still enjoying the beaches of Hampton Roads to get in some long-weekend vacations, and when Jasmine hit me up saying she and her little crew would be near me this October, […]

Don’t leave us yet, summer!!!! I love sessions like this one with Marcell, Hillary, and Max at Ft Monroe in Hampton. You might recognize this crew from last November. We had such a fun time keeping Max out of the fields of Cullipher Farm in Chesapeake, we wanted the other challenge of keeping him from […]