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Traveling the world, photographing couples in love & wrangling two little ones!

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Emily & John 
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 Gabriella & MAX 
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Lindsey & Michael
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Arika Jordan North Carolina & Destination Wedding Photographer Balboa Park San Diego Engagement Session

2017 has been one heck of a year! I was lucky enough to travel all over for engagement session across the South East and in California. I worked some amazing couples and had such a great time. Engagement Sessions are so much fun because they are my favorite time to get to know a couple […]

After our first session got rained out, I was so happy to shoot Jordan & Alex’s Engagement photos in Raleigh on a beautiful November day! These two were so natural in front of the camera! There is always some warm with couples, but these two were ready to go. Jordan is from the same area […]

Oh my gosh, I forgot how much fun College Senior Sessions are! especially when there is Champagne involved! Hollye is graduating this December from North Carolina State University with a degree in Communications. Not only is she open, kind, and fun but she also looks like she was straight out of fashion blog!!! Nothing loosens people up […]

It all started with an email back in the beginning of September. Russell had been planning on proposing to his girlfriend Sara for quite some time now, and after his original plan to propose over labor day was thwarted by a girls trip to Chicago, he came up with a new plan. A trip to Charleston […]

I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited about a blog post, as I am about this one. We spent the weekend photographing Kate and Justin’s destination wedding in the Mountains on the border of West Virginia and Virginia. It was absolutely gorgeous warm fall day, with the leaves just starting to turn. Four Fillies […]

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