Journal

Sometimes I get a phone call from a prospective client and I just enjoy the phone call, discussing the client’s hopes for portraits, their story.  E. called me for her family portraits.  They had moved from the Mid West and were in CA, her husband teaching at a prestigious law school, and her family had […]

It seems the rain won’t stop this summer on Lookout Mountain.  We keep hearing that it is “not normally like this” and I know we are well above average for all of the Chattanooga area, but still.  I’m used to CA droughts so this is all new to me.   The entire Fourth of July […]

We were hoping for a neighborhood parade this morning for our first Fourth of July on Lookout Mountain.  Well, thunderstorms and the mountain fog has changed our plans.  The parade is now postponed.  But I took the girls outside, who had their patriotic outfits planned and took a few photos all the same.  And then […]

Here is a wedding that I photographed in Santa Barbara, California at the Four Seasons Biltmore Hotel.  (The date worked out perfectly with other shoots I had planned when I traveled out from Georgia.)  Eric and Rebecca’s wedding was so much fun to do, and a beautiful wedding.  The ceremony was so personal, their brother-in-law […]

Last year I received a phone call from J. who let me in on a secret, she was 5 weeks pregnant. She approached me with the idea from something she had seen on Pinterest.  (Love that!)  I felt so completely privileged to capture her first pregnancy with her and her husband and her growing baby. […]

I’m working on the entire post, but I wanted to put this up for now.  I had so much fun with J. and I. during their maternity journey, and them trusting me to work with them and to be creative documenting it, and I can’t wait to post more soon!