FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHY | will you take pictures of my kids, too?

Will you take pictures of my kids, too? Yes! 

My goal is to preserve love stories by taking pictures of sweethearts in every stage of a relationship - young lovers and 50-year-marriages alike! I want to give you and your love a fun, romantic, experience to reconnect and reminisce. Our best moments and best images are going to happen with as few distractions (and chaos and cheerios!) as possible. I love that you want to include you kids in this special experience! Instead of adding them to [your anniversary pictures], you'll receive a $200 discount on a separate family photo session. That's a win-win! (Excerpt from FAQ section)

Just with my anniversary sessions, these shoots have a focus on fun. My goal is to give your family an experience being together, goofing around, laughing, and taking pictures along the way. We'll get some 'everyone smiling at the camera' pictures and even more that capture genuine moments as you interact with your loved ones during our shoot!

SOPHIA+RANDY | LDS philadelphia temple wedding and big red blossom trees

He's from Philadelphia, she's from New York. They met in Idaho (uh, what..?) but flew back to their roots to be married! They chose to be married for all time and eternity in an LDS temple. The crazy thing is that if they had met a year earlier, this particular temple in Philadelphia would not have existed yet! While the LDS Manhattan Temple and LDS Washington DC Temple aren't too far away, it was extra special that this new one was built just in time to marry in Randy's home city. I'm not positive, but I think this may be the first LDS Philadelphia wedding photography post that exists! That's how new it is! 

On another photography note - Randy and Sophia have been AMAZING troopers when it comes to taking pictures with me. They worked in frigid conditions for their engagement pictures on the Salt Flats in Utah (view HERE) and we did some Korean hanbok pictures right as a mega-storm rolled in (view HERE). By the time the wedding day rolled around, they were perfectly content in the chilly, cloudy weather of Philadelphia. That's one of my favorite things about wedding days - when a couple is really happy, no bad weather can stop them! 

ESTELLE+JESSE | not a single bit of green

These pictures are some oldies from very early in my career, but for as long as they've been around they have been some of my most popular images. Why? I like to think it's because they are especially beautiful in a scenery we typically see as especially ugly. It was early January after a dry spell of no snow for a while. Every think is a little murky and a little muddy. There's not a single piece of greenery or life on a single tree and the bare branches jut out a weird angles. It is the straight up UGLY part of winter... but it doesn't really feel that way. 

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