At Home with Kelsey+Drew // Durham, NC.

Kelsey and Drew are my jam, you guys. Kelsey would always send me amazing emails during their engagement, and we shot their engagement session way  back in 2011 at a baseball field with them and their adorable pup Miley. Then their wedding came along in 2012 and there were also amazing emails during that time as well, and then life settled in and Kelsey eventually (*sniffsniff*) moved on from emailing me mostly because she, you know, actually had things to do. And then one day recently she e-mailed me! And I was super excited because we loved Kelsey and Drew! And now they were back! And pregnant! And expecting a little boy! And they asked us to photograph him which is a super honor for us. We just started doing these family sessions recently and it’s really been a joy for us, so it’s great to now be able to follow our clients through their different phases of life. :)

Baby Cooper was supposed to be born on October 31, but he took his good ‘ole time and, as Kelsey put it, was eventually evicted out of necessity. :) But I can’t say that he was late because he was afraid of joining his new family… this boy is right at home. He was fussy maybe once during the session but no crying at all… and he slept and smiled and gazed in the general direction of Geoff’s beard (because although he couldn’t see it, I’m sure he could sense the power). His nursery is aviation themed and he donned little striped footie pajamas with a little bear piloting his own airplane and a tiny aviation hat and it was so, so cute. We are thrilled to welcome Cooper into Kelsey and Drew’s amazing family, and we are so happy to be able to do this for them. :)

Lauren+Nick // At Home in Atlanta.

We could shoot in people’s homes all day. We love houses, we love architecture, and we love looking at how other people decorate…. especially when they’re an architect. :) Guys, remember Lauren and Nick?! They moved to Atlanta shortly after their wedding in Raleigh and we’ve seen Lauren a few times since when she’s come home to visit (and to join us at Steely Dan concerts). But this time we went down to Atlanta, Georgia to see them both and to photograph them in their home and with their kittens Maple & Moo (actually named Rocky, but with the striking cow resemblance, it’s hard to pass on the nickname).

Lauren’s an architect and they bought this awesome house in the city, but they knew it needed work. It was previously a duplex, so they had to gut the whole thing, completely redesign it, and rebuild the entire interior save for the load-bearing walls (wanna see how they did it? Check out Lauren’s blog on her house!). The house was split directly down the middle with one apartment on one side and one on the other. In their current living room stood a bathroom (complete with giant bathtub) and several super tiny rooms. Their guest bedroom was once a living room and a galley kitchen. It was a SERIOUS project and renovation, but it has to be so awesome to be living in a house that you designed and created yourselves (it also causes Lauren and Nick to love to watch HGTV and make fun of people turning down houses based on paint color and granite countertops).

So our task for this particular shoot was to photograph them in their home but mostly focus on the house. We were, essentially, to make Lauren and Nick those tiny little model people used in architectural models for scale. We knew exactly what they were looking for as we would love to have the same thing in our house, so we were super excited to get to work. But then we were introduced to their kittens. And we used kittens for scale, sure, but… kittens. I couldn’t help but take too many pictures of the cats (is that a thing?). So get ready for tiny Lauren+Nick, lots of cats (scale and otherwise), and a ridiculous amount of gorgeous furniture and design (I’m pretty sure I left lots of things in their guest bedroom to make sure I could slyly return to their house again).