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03.03.17

sarah + greer : tabernash, colorado

A two-day celebration in the snowy mountains of Colorado. The first day, a celebration & party. The second day, a morning ...

02.22.17

emilie + tim : columbia river gorge

Husband of the year---the guy who emails me to tell me he's surprising his wife with a trip to Portland + a session w/ me for ...

02.02.17

2016, you were good.

Better late than never, right? RIGHT. I believe in reflection, even when it's not the moment you planned. This is the time ...

01.13.17

jake + devin : brooklyn, ny

Jake and Devin, my original muses. The people who have taught me how to be an observer---how to move with my subjects instead ...

01.10.17

jordan + michael : los angeles wedding

Ohhhh, to finally be able to reflect on this past year. Slow season is the best gift and I'm soaking it up for all it's worth....

HEY, SISTA! : MANZANITA, OREGON

Once upon a time, Lauren and I were in my little car driving from Seattle to Portland. At one point she turned to me and said,...

12.01.16

josh + k-ray : topanga canyon, california

Two of the best people I know flew up to our wedding just two weeks before their own, then they planned their wedding date so ...

10.18.16

brittany + galen : new york city

The quiet of the Hudson River on this particular morning in May was something else. I sat in the backseat of a taxi at 5 a.m. ...

09.01.16

dom + shannon : lewis and clark wedding

It's hard to explain what a day like this meant to me. Recently I've been thinking about how sacred it is to be invited into s...

08.23.16

miles + ciera : sunriver, oregon

Ciera spent her wedding day giggling like a maniac. I spent her wedding day shuffling between being a bridesmaid and also her we...

08.17.16

josie + chris : austin, texas

I don't have much to say today---just that I've loved revisiting some of my work from earlier this year, that I loved working ...

08.15.16

jake + bekah : st. charles, illinois

This season is such a whirlwind---wedding season always is. Then if you add it to that fact that we are 40 days away from our ...

07.14.16

dustin + emery : santa fe, new mexico

Once upon a time on the outskirts of Santa Fe, there were two Texans who drove ten hours to shoot with me while I was in town ...

06.23.16

chris + kat : new york city

I always think back to my very first day in NYC and remember how big it felt. I remember walking thirty blocks by myself along...

06.17.16

laura + curtis : quinlan, tx

These are my kind of days: when a wedding feels like the most wonderful Sunday church picnic and things ebb and flow so easily...

05.23.16

neva + carl : texas hill country

Once upon a time, there was a dreamy, rainy morning and a house full of girls and a field full of wildflowers. A bride with tw...