Journal

Traveling with kids isn’t always easy. Of course not. But it is oh so rewarding. The eyes of wonder, the finding your rhythm as a family, experiencing new moments together, memories created and shared, these are bonuses. And when coming to Maui and celebrating your anniversary and taking the kids on their first family vacation, […]

Meet Megan, Class of 2017.  She is full of warmth and enthusiasm and absolutely glowed in her high school senior portrait session.  We covered a beach town, sugar cane field, trails and a beach for her senior portraits.  And just like these different landscapes we covered the many aspects of Megan: quick to laugh and […]

I answered the phone and on the other line was a friendly voice from my previous-home-state of Georgia. They were headed on vacation and she wanted to do a photography session for portraits of their family. We put things in place and scheduled the date for their family portraits while they were staying at the […]

This is where they started it all, their wedding, just the two of them, and this was their first time back to Maui with their adorable boy. Like in life, things didn’t go entirely as planned. The exact spot of their vows had people camping (guess the no camping signs on this beach weren’t effective.) […]

So when I first started talking with mom Emily about her family portrait session she let me know she didn’t want the beach, but for it to still look like Maui. Being that they were visiting the islands from Texas, I wanted to have the subtle backdrop of the mountains too. We settled on the […]

Over the summer I was on a Hawaiian Airlines flight to the mainland.  I read through their in-flight magazine, Hana Hou!, and I was so impressed with their photography, and then the thought passed through my mind, “I wonder how you shoot for them– that would be so cool.”  And the thought was fleeting and […]