Personal

Last August I came home from a mentoring session with Katelyn James and my husband sat me down in a very serious fashion and said, “We need to talk .  . . How would you feel about doing a vow renewal and having Katelyn shoot it.” That simple question just made me fall apart.  My […]

I can’t believe this summer that Jason and I will be celebrating our tenth wedding anniversary!  It seems like just yesterday I sat down in a computer class, looked across the room and saw the most handsome smiling man I had ever seen.  My heart just melted at first sight and its been that way […]

When I was in art school, I had to watch a documentary on glass makers.  It always fascinated me to see them heat a lump of glass to an almost molten state and then shape and prod it into something lovely.  It took an immense amount of heat and work to get it to that […]

I have fallen in love with the fact that Newport News has seasons.  As a wedding photographer it just thrills me to have the ability to shoot against so many varied seasons and colors, especially snow.  After having shot in the almost constant brown that is the Texas Hill Country, the wide array of colors […]

Yesterday I talked about what I had learned in 2015 and as I reflected on the year, I realized that the theme had been growth and surrender.  I also realized that for as long as I have made resolutions, I have broken them.  Resolutions tend to be high expectations without a clear and paced plan to […]