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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 […]

Warning… this post may cause, “OOoooo”s, “Awwwwww”s, and a little bit of jealousy over how stunning my bestfriends are!!! Christie is one of my old roomies and besties from CNU! She, her husband Matt, and their pup Huxley live in Suffolk, VA, and let me tell you… they are one beautiful family!!! A few weeks […]

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 […]

Well hello there, friends! On this rainy Friday in Richmond, I get to celebrate 32 years of being alive!! These past 12 months have been ones for the record books. Let’s walk through some of my favorite parts… 1. Getting Engaged!!! My incredible fiancé proposed in August of 2022, re-enacting the final scene from You’ve […]

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 […]

Oh man… just wait til you see these ladies. Waltzing them to and fro around Christopher Newport University for their senior session was making me fall in love with my alma mater all over again! And capturing their friendship in front of my lens was such a treat!!! With graduation right around the corner, spending […]

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 […]

There are moments in photography when you pull your camera from your eye to look at the shot you just captured and can’t help but grin exuberantly, shriek with glee, and freak out your client in the excitement their beauty gives you. I consider it such a privilege to capture people in all their differences […]

I wish everyone could know this family. Darnell & Quana became good friends to me in 2019, and their down to earth personalities, honesty about the hard things of life, and “God is good all the time” faith has been such a gift to me. (Not to mention dance parties with hide & seek games […]

It is such a gift to have couples in your life who have weathered the storms of marriage, kids, jobs, travels, aging, and the like, and who continue to show you in their words and how they choose to spend their time that Christ is a delight and worthy of serving with each passing year. […]

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 […]

Anyone else miss the pre-covid wedding days? Celebrating with friends and family, sans face coverings and social distancing? While I know our current circumstances and the various regulations upon us are limits we all just have to accept as reality for right now, I still peruse weddings I shot in 2019 with such awe and […]