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June 5, 2014

4 years ago I went to New York city for the first time to visit a friend of mine who was attending NYU. At the time, a career in photography was no where near my brain. I don’t even think I knew what a DSLR was! But, I packed my Canon point-and-shoot and flew to […]

A few days ago, my mom and I discovered a u-pick nectarine farm in Crystal River. After about 30 minutes of picking, we came home with two buckets of ripe, juicy, locally grown nectarines. I wanted to make something a little bit out of the ordinary with them, so I started searching for a nectarine […]

Do you have any holiday weekend plans? I’m headed to the beach with my family and can’t wait for two days of sun, salt water, sweat, and sand. Whatever you do, I hope your weekend is filled with family, friends, good food, lots of laughter, and the kind of weather that makes you want to […]

Wanna know what I miss? I miss photographing for fun. This whole thing, this thing that I do here on this site, all started because I took a lot of pictures of random things. Things like my morning coffee cup and my mom’s blueberry pies. Or a random fence post or a pretty tree in […]

Heather and Luke married underneath the cover of a vacant greenhouse. The morning of their wedding, they woke up to pouring rain, a flooded reception site, and no sign of sunshine ahead. Yet from the moment I arrived until I hugged Heather goodnight, she did not stop smiling. She even said, “I love the cloud […]