{Family Portraits}

When my photographer friend Lydia Woosley asked me to take photos of her baby announcement, I jumped at the chance. Lydia is a natural in front of the lens and a pure joy to be around. Which sucks for me since she just moved to Michigan. We barely had time to carve out a few...

I’m in love with love. It makes me deliriously happy to see two people fall head over heals and dedicate their lives to each other. Especially when one of those people are my best friend. For years, Melinda and I joked that I was her first wife because we had been inseparable since our first...

The other day I headed out to Rosemary Beach for another family portrait session. I know what your thinking…another one? Is that all you do? Well sometimes it feels that way when I’m cleaning sand out of my car, but I throw in a wedding or two every now and then. This time it was just...

I was revisiting some family portraits I took earlier this summer when I can across Lori’s family session in Rosemary Beach. I remember them quite well because the family was a lot of fun, but they also looked like they stepped out of the pages of an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog. Seriously, they are too...

Perhaps it’s just my memory, but I can’t recall a summer so full of heavy rain. And not just rain, but sever thunder and lightning as well. You know the scary kind that makes you jump and unplug all your computer equipment. This crazy on again, on again weather has presented a real challenge when it...