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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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Mackenzie Bridal Session Castle McCulloch & High Point University We’ve been waiting on these for ages now! With COVID postponing both Mackenzie’s Bridal Session and Wedding Day, and then weather postponing her bridals again, I was so happy to finally get this beauty back in front of the camera! I shot Mackenzie & Hunter’s engagement […]

Oh Sunrise Session, how I love your light so! I am so used to being near the Coast that I’m used to sunrise session going from right before the sunrise and you get the gorgeous light for about an hour. Not in the Mountains! Nope, it took a good almost HOUR AND A HALF, for […]

Meet the lovely Emery Dixon! Emery is one of my 2018 Senior Spokesmodels and I am so lucky to have her on my team. She is an absolute natural and I could’ve shot her all night. We were lucky enough to score some gorgeous outfits from Free People in Durham, and her hair and makeup […]

It is sunflower season, and though they go quick they are all so beautiful!!! Once in bloom they only last about two weeks and they heat makes it quicker. I was lucky enough to do a couple of sessions out in the sunflower fields in Raleigh, and they couldn’t have turned out better. I may […]

Christmas is just a few days away, and I just shot my last session of the season! I am ready to rest, relax and count down the days till this baby comes. Izzy is such a sweet heart, and didn’t mind walking around downtown, climbing 6 flights of stairs or the slightly chilly windy day! […]

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Em & Nic Raleigh Union Station Wedding

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