It’s always fun to get to see my couple grow their families. I have photographed Sydney and Justin several times for their beach engagement at Cherry Grove, NC, their wedding at the Wallace, and their stunning waterfall maternity photos at Hanging Rock State Park and now I am equally as excited to be sharing their […]

There are so many things to be thankful for. I am thankful for my dogs who keep me busy, entertained and feeling loved.  I am thankful for my husband who supports me while I build my business and chase my dreams.  I am thankful for my awesome friends who are always up for adventures.  I […]

Have you seen the meme about the two types of people once Holiday decorations start appearing in stores? Love it or hate it, Holiday shopping is upon us. I am somewhere in the middle of the above mentioned spectrum of Christmas joy/dread.  Christmas has a lot of things going for it that I like – […]

   I was in downward dog and sweat was dripping from me like I was a leaky pipe when our yoga instructor, Grace Morales, started talking to us about the concepts of Duka and Suka in yoga.  The instructors like to talk to us during challenging sequences to give us something to think about besides […]

When I first joined Instagram, I didn’t really get it.   I took a few pictures, posted them, and then didn’t really come back to my account for quite some time. Then I got a little jaded with Facebook and decided to try Instagram again. Now, I love it. All pretty pictures, no drama. Lovely. […]

Today is the last of the not-so-fun tedious Spring Cleaning blog posts, I promise! If you are just joining us you can catch up on the series here: PART ONE-get your photos off your camera/out of boxes PART TWO-create a file system PART THREE-catalog them PART FOUR-purge/cull PART FIVE-add details, keywords, tags Obviously, all of […]

Last week we did the hard work of going through our photos and culling our images so that we are only keeping the best images.  In case you missed the first four parts of the series on Spring Cleaning your photos you can find them here: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four. This […]

Welcome back to our blog series about organizing and cleaning up our photography collections. If you missed the first three posts you can get caught up here with Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. This week’s task just may be the hardest task we have to complete during the entire eight weeks. Now that […]

Welcome back to our series on Spring Cleaning your photos (in the Summer time). We have already finished step one, gathering our images together, and step two, designing a system to organize and store our images. If you missed our earlier posts, no worries.  Just click the links above to get caught up. I mentioned […]

Last week we started on our epic journey to get all of our photos cleaned up and organized.  If you missed last week’s post, you can read it again right HERE. Now that we have all of our photos – digital and printed – gathered together we need to come up with a plan for […]