the journal

I will never get over just how tiny newborns are. It doesn’t matter if you have a newborn, or your kids are grown up. You never remember just how teeny tiny they are. Their ears. Their nose. Their feet. Their hands. So small, yet they hold such a big place in your heart. As a […]

High school is a time in everyones lives where they’re truly trying to find out who they are, where they belong, what they want to do with their lives, and who they want to spend the rest of their lives with (both romantically and not).  I come from a small town about an hour of […]

A courthouse. Fresh Flowers. A marriage certificate. Masks. Wait, what?! Why do we need masks to get married? Oh, that’s right, COVID-19. Weddings from March until just recently in August, look a tad different than they normally would at the start of the year. As a wedding and portrait photographer, I have been hit with […]

From Oregon to Arizona – this family has been up and down the coastline and all over! Becky reached out to me since her family was traveling to Scottsdale to get out of Oregon for a few weeks and into the Arizona heat (I definitely asked her how 110+ degree weather was appealing to her, […]

Those sweet cheeks. The way she clicks her heals together. The serious faces. All are the little traits I love about this sweet girl. She’s genuinely a VERY happy girl, but for her 9 month portraits I had to work REAL hard to get these little smiles out of her here and there. I met […]

The sweetest nursery theme. Imagination. Exploration. Peter Pan. A boy we knew and grew up to love. The thought of “Never Growing Up” staying in our minds until we truly had to become adults and enter into a world of uncertainty, but yet into a world that could be so magical. Alison and Kevin were […]