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This is the place I get to showcase all of my beautiful clients and the love they put into their sessions or weddings. I also love sharing tips and tricks on wedding photography planning, ideas to make your session fun, easy, and organized, as well as personal stories. Find the category you're looking for, or browse for hours! There's plenty to keep you entertained.

You might guess that being a wedding and portrait photographer is a pretty fun job, and you would be correct. It’s an incredibly fun and unique job – pretty much all the time, that’s why it’s impressive when I have an exceptionally fun day. I’m excited to share these Old Town Alexandria women’s headshots with […]

The more I shoot in Old Town Alexandria, the more I come to realize – Old Town does not have a bad time of year! It’s charming and beautiful year round and I feel lucky to get to shoot there so much. Today I’m excited to share with you Morgan & Clark’s autumn Old Town […]

Maya and Colin are engaged! And they wanted to celebrate by bringing their two adorable pups to Virginia for their Old Town Alexandria engagement photos. Maya and Colin live in D.C. but love the quaint feel of Old Town’s cobblestone streets and historic row houses, so of course I jumped at the chance to do […]

You guys, I was so excited to take Emily and Joe’s Carlyle House engagement photos for so many reasons, and I’m just as excited to share them with you today! Emily and Joe are a really sweet, genuine couple, and they live in Old Town s0 they wanted to do their engagement session there. And […]

I’m excited to share with you these Alexandria branding session photos today! This session is so special because the woman in them is fantastic, but also because of what she did to prepare for the session. She took all of my advice on how to prepare before her Alexandria branding session photos – from having […]

I don’t know if it’s the magic of my couples or the location itself, but I am loving Old Town Alexandria lately! I’m feeling so inspired by it and Missy and Steve’s gorgeous Alexandria Virginia engagement photos are proof! Missy and Steve are getting married this year in the Caribbean and reached out last month […]

Eep! I’m so excited to share these Old Town Alexandria wedding portraits from Alexandria, Virginia, with you today! Not just because the couple in them is beautiful, and the photos themselves are too (if I do say so myself…), but because of the circumstances surrounding the session and how everything worked out. Mari and Ishan […]

So, I obviously have the best clients. Everyone is always so trusting and up for whatever I suggest. But Madison here might take the cake for my bravest client ever when she signed up for snowy Old Town Alexandria headshots! I’ve known Madison for about two and a half years now. She and I joined […]

I’m so grateful for the busy seasons – for obvious reasons, but even more so because they allow me to fully soak up and appreciate the not-so-busy seasons. I will say, I’m usually kind of grumpy during the holidays; they’re just not my favorite for various reasons. But this year I decided to totally be […]

All of my clients and all of my photo shoots have a special place in my heart (my heart has gotten really big! Awesome side effect of being a photographer!), let me just say that up front. But there’s something extra special about coming full circle with clients and getting to capture multiple sweet events […]