Life is full of decisions.
We made a big one.

Wedding Photography isn’t something you just wake up and say you’re going to do.

Horses. Barns. Fences. Sunshine and some rain. Cornfields and kisses. Perfection.

Sunshine. Water. A slight breeze. A red truck. Fishing poles. Shot gun shells. Love it.

Cassie and Kevin are getting hitched in less than a month. They came to us months ago to hire us for their wedding! We couldn’t be more excited to photograph their upcoming November wedding. Here’s a glimpse into our time with them!

We’ve been so excited to feature this blog post as we loved this wooded, whimsical, musical Senior Portrait Session. Alissa K. is a babe. She is a harpist, and a fabulous musician.

During the week Patrick does baseball instruction for talented young students, and Alissa’s brothers and parents are one of his clients. Alissa wanted something different, edgy, but unique with her twist and personality. So we asked some questions, including taking her and her harp outside into the woods. When her and her parents agreed, we made the trip to McLean, Virginia, where the K’s live, and we spent a few hours in the woods. Here’s what came about from our harp in the woods session.

This is LONG overdue due to the busyness of our wedding season at its peak, but wanted to highlight this amazing family. Patrick and I had the honor of spending an afternoon with Seth and Alyce and their precious babes… all girls.

Seth and Alyce are realtors here in Baltimore and own a successful business called The Dailey Group. Alyce has “known” me since I was a little kid, but we’ve officially met as friends about a year or so ago thanks to a mutual friend, Hadassah.

We headed out to the park, a place the girls love, and successfully, with minimal tears, had a beautiful family session. Thank you Alyce and Seth for hiring us.

Last Sunday, Patrick and I got to meet up with Lara + Brent… a cute cute couple who are Volleyball coaches at Stevenson University!

Lara and Patrick have known each other since 2004!! Lara reached out after seeing some of our recent work, and hired us for her and Brent’s engagement pictures!!

Since Volleyball is such a huge piece of their relationship, we did a volleyball inspired engagement session… and let me tell you, we had to get creative. There’s not much inspiration on pinterest for volleyball session… so it looks like we are creating it!!

Anyway, Brent + Lara were the cutest. We laughed a lot with them, had them try different poses given the parameters of lockers and volleyball nets. It was pretty fun! Here’s the summary of their engagement session. Patrick and I LOVED our time with them!

Erica and Jim are our couple of the week… they grew up in Annapolis, and of course met there, dated there, and will be married there. We felt it fitting to do their engagement session there.

This September we will be photographing their beautiful historic Annapolis wedding down at the Historic London Town Gardens. We are designing a custom vintage chic photobooth for them as well!

Besides booking weddings well into 2015 and 2016, a lot of my time has been taking professional and personal photographs and headshots for friends and referrals. I figured since there were so many that we’ve done recently that it would be neat to do a mixture of headshots for folks to get a feel of locations, positions, scenery, emotion and more. You’ll see that we mix it up and never venture to the same places.

I love big family. Probably because I come from a big family and I married into a bigger family.

Tammy invited us to come to their family reunion and take pictures of the entire clan. Here’s a glimpse into our time together!

I’ve known Tammy Rice since I graduated from college. My first job in the “professional” world was teaching at the McDonogh School as a Kindergarten assistant. I was Tammy’s assistant in 2009.