The Riggans

You ever have a kid in front of the lens that just makes your camera melt? This little chickadee is quite the ham! Had a great time kicking off "cool leaves season" (as I like to call it) with this family!

Chasity and Patrick

A hybrid shoot. Family and Engagement pictures! To top it off- more firefighters in front of the camera. How cool is that? Thanks to the crew at Longbridge Fire Dept out near Eaton's Ferry in Lake Gaston for allowing us to shoot there. The leaves were just starting to turn in a few spots outside, and we had some pretty cool firetrucks to work with inside. Really great spot, nice folks, cute kids. What more could I ask for?



These two were so easy to work with - up for anything open to my wacky ideas. That's always fun!


Love the colors in this. Purple and green, my favorite!




Tell little boys we might get dirty and they don't mind taking pictures one bit!




Metal texture from the fire truck, I'm in heaven!



I saved my favorite for last. I told them, hey you gotta look like "I'm bad". I laughed harder than they did when that came out of my mouth, sure Scott was rolling his eyes but I LOVE this shot. One of my top 5 favs from the whole year.



Thanks Patrick and Chasity for being so easy to work with! We might see more of them here on the blog this summer. :)

Dudley family - OBX portraits 2011

More Outer Banks beach portraits! We had the prettiest light at sunset....and it went away all too fast. Wish I'd had another hour!
Saying something like "hey, you've got 3 kids I know you can get closer than that" is probably not appropriate for normal sessions. But I know this family so they actually laughed. Be warned. If you schedule a family session, I will attempt to get photos of just you and your loved one too. I don't care about statistics, I still believe in forever. Maybe because I know I have that with Scott :)




Gorgeous kiddos!




A beautiful night in Nags Head, a beautiful family portrait if I do say so myself.

The H family

We started planning this in March. I had no clue if anyone would schedule a session, but it's something I really wanted to do so I took a chance and hoped it would all work out. Reservations on the house with Village Realty went smoothly, everyone in the family stayed healthy, and we even dodged a bullet with Hurricane Irene. But as soon as we arrived in the OBX on Saturday, the bottom fell out. It has rained every day, and was non stop Saturday and Sunday with weather channel calling for 6 inches in that time frame.
Sunday morning around 9am we finally caught a break. I had 45 minutes with just sprinkles here and there to photograph the Harris family. Soon as we walked off the beach it poured again. Just in time! The weather was awful but they kept on smiling! They were awesome! Cindy said even a bad day at the beach is better than a good day at home. Since we're from Warren county, I have to agree with her.




Love this in a 10x20 crop



I can't tell you how thankful I am that God has blessed me with such wonderful people to work with. I mean it when I say I have the best clients ever! Thank you so much for supporting me. For making the drive down here, those of you who made it, those of you who planned on making it and couldn't due to a chunk of HWY 12 missing, and those of you who will be here later this week.....thank you, thank you thank you. You make my heart happy!

The L Family (part 1) {Lake Gaston family photographer}

I couldn't ask for a better group of folks to work with. We were out in the heat and humidity at Lake Gaston on July 4th and ended up with a minimum of 40 photos for their gallery, not including black and white (which I'm about 65% finished with). I cannot say enough good about how hospitable and sweet they were. On the way there I said a little prayer that I'd be able to capture images they'd cherish for a lifetime. If I can succeed at that for every one of my clients, then I've met my goal and the rest will fall in place. I hope they'll love their photos and I'll be loading their gallery tonight.

Have a great weekend all!

The J's family photos {Henderson, NC}

Many years ago when Kassi was a baby we lived right beside this family in Henderson. I don't know how they stood it as I know they heard the baby crying all day and all night. I'm gonna have to do something special for them! It's been about 8 years and they haven't changed a bit, still just as cute as ever. We met at one of my favorite spots in Wake Forest for pictures and laughed about 75% of the time. Awesome to still see sparks in a couple that's been married 10 years. If the kids hadn't been there they might have convinced me they'd just started dating. So sweet!

Stacey + Jason {Lake Gaston Photographer}

I swear you could feel the sparks half a mile away with these two. What can I add to that? Wait, I can add to it....a super cute little boy with balloons. I am one blessed photographer!

Baby A! 9 months {North Carolina Child Photographer}

This little dude is special to me. I've been photographing him since he was a newborn. Check him out at 9 months old- from Oct 2010.