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Yesterday I missed a text message from a dear friend and client. I had turned my phone to focus mode and turned off texting while working away in Lightroom and Photoshop on photographs to submit for the upcoming PPA Merit Image Review as I work towards earning my Master Photograper Degree. Hours later, I opened […]

After a few years without a senior model team, I am so excited to bring it back with an all-new structure — instead of waiting until senior year, models can join as early as the beginning of sophomore year. This new team consists of a mix of Twenty24 and Twenty25, and next summer more Twenty25 […]

Today is October 1st.  And portrait photographers everywhere know that we are officially in the busy season.  October and, to a lesser extent, November for photographers, especially those like me who photograph families, are like March and those first few weeks of April for CPAs. Of course October is popular for portraits — especially outdoor, […]

While my signature sessions are always available, a few times a year I offer special petite sessions or mini session events that double as fundraising events for non-profit organizations that are near and dear to my heart.  This past April I spent much of the month preparing for May and a month of petite sessions […]

When I was nine years old I played Rocky Top at my first and only piano recital.  Whether you’re a University of Tennessee fan or not, if you grow up in the state of Tennessee then you grow up singing Rocky Top, and the line in the chorus “Home sweet home to me” always seems to […]

I am so excited to announce my Celebrating Motherhood: Mama & Me Petite Portrait Session charity event happening throughout the month of May and benefiting The CURED Foundation. The CURED Foundation was founded by Ellyn and Fred Kodroff following their daughter’s diagnosis with an eosinophilic disease back in 2003.  Since then the CURED Foundation has […]

“…we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us…” –Brene’ Brown   When I started my business in 2017, it was after years of feeling a stirring deep within my soul that I was being called to use photography to capture life for others.  I know that sounds […]