Oh, the Mayvilles.
{Still images here /shot at Brookside Farm, Louisville, Ohio}
Neither Julie, who organized and hosted this event, nor I knew what to expect from A Day to Shine. We knew we believed in its mission, though: to arm women who have or have had cancer with the one thing that proves elusive to all women: self confidence.
Images from a visit with some White Shepherds.
Robyn and Jim got married at the top of the world—literally and figuratively.
Sadie and Sam love to ask me about how my husband proposed, what the wedding was like, what being married is like. Sadie said, you have to have a good story so you have something to tell your kids. How right she is; how important your story is.
Here’s a snippet of the Grimm’s story, in pictures.
These little guys were on the move from the get go. Wild kids are my favorite kind.
Preview of the Mayville wedding video.
{Still images here /shot at Brookside Farm, Louisville, Ohio}
Images from an evening engagement shoot with Melanie & Josh.
Images from a Colorado fall evening spent with Jolee + her parents. {And a new little baby brother on the way!}
We got a chance to get to know Matt + Racquel in the months leading up to their wedding doing first this engagement shoot, then this one, and this engagement video. And as wonderful as those were, nothing compared to their wedding day.
Images from a session with the regal Zoe [Akita] + her goofy little brother, Ozzie [Greater Swiss Mountain Dog] at their Colorado mountain home. Also, a few images schemed up for a holiday card.
A few images from Chris + Meghan’s lovely fall wedding.
Lily and Nora love their horses in a way that only a fellow horse-enthusiast can truly understand. And Ethan, well, Ethan rolls with the punches.
Boudoir might literally translate to ‘bedroom,’ but I don’t think boudoir photography should be contained there. Images of a boudoir session with the lovely and daring N, in the woods, with guns.
Collette is a bad ass little dog. Brandon + Christie are her equally cool human counterparts.
Hudson is a 7-year-old, 3-legged Great Dane with the kind of grace so many dogs have and so many people find elusive. He’s got a cancer diagnosis too, but you’d never know it. He’s a handsome boy, and a happy one, too.
Matt + Racquel‘s wedding was a rousing good time. Here’s proof.
Images of a summer afternoon with Tawnya + her boys.
Images from Julie + Eric’s lovely wedding in the farmlands of Ohio. Beautiful folks and a beautiful day to be married.
Sometimes I like to think Roux seeks out the best light in the house at any given time and lays in it, waiting for me to catch on and take her photograph.
Sisters Sophie & Phoebe. I can’t help but feel a real affinity for them both; there is the same number of years between them as between my sister and I, and I can so easily remember the whimsy of that age.
Roux and Prada, Todd and I : a quintessential fall day in the heart of America.
It’s thrilling that Deviree is expecting her first baby, and was lovely to see so many of my dear clients in one place.
A Newfoundland with a mohawk and a killer rooftop in downtown Denver.
M + E said to me, let’s do engagement photos, and let’s do them somewhere no one has ever done them before. And I said, I know just the place.
Madeline has a dog, a flying rabbit and a bicycle-riding owl.
Here’s a joke Hudson told me during this session:
Q : What kind of shoes did the chicken wear when he crossed the street?
A : Reebok bok bok boks.
This is my second year shooting the Moore family. I loved the first, the second was even better, and I don’t see any reason why that would change the next time around.
Asher is just a few months old, but he smiles for the camera like it’s his job.
Images from an afternoon with Genevive, 6, and Isaac, 4, at home and in the woods.
A rescue Dane with a sad history, Lucky is indeed lucky to have found Susan.
Racquel & Matt in open space, with stormy skies and gold light.
Last summer I had the fortunate experience of photographing Candice & Brandon’s wedding. This year, an equally lovely experience photographing their beautiful daughter, Saren.
My little sister got her first puppy last winter. That puppy is a real dog now, and I didn’t realize it until I edited these photos, but my little sister is a real grown up lady now, too.
Images from an evening engagement session with Meghan, Chris + their Lab mix, Bella.
I loved shooting Kali + Jason’s engagement photos. Their sense of adventure, quirky mischief, and total adoration of each other was infectious. Their wedding in Boulder was all of those things, times a hundred.
Engagement session with Julie + Zach and dogs Gunner + Bauer.
Images from Kate + Travis’ wedding in Winter Park, Colo.
Mike [English Bulldog] + Harlow [Chocolate Lab], at one year. The first time I photographed M + H they were eight weeks old. Editing these images of them from last week inspired me to dig into the archives, and some of these then + now comparisons were too good to pass up.
Images from Kate + Travis’ welcome and rehearsal dinner in Winter Park, Colo.
