Danielle+Alex // A Newborn Session in Durham, NC

My first shoot of the new year couldn’t have taken place with a nicer family. This was my first time working with Danielle and Alex, their 14-year-old dachshund Honeybee, and definitely my first time working with their 7-day-old son. They were all so kind and invited me into their beautiful home to capture their baby in first few days at home (a lot of firsts here). These two met as professional classical musicians, which I think is so cool, and I’m sure that their son will inherit their talent and love of music. They were so fun to talk to as we hung around the house and talked babies and music and careers. I’m so happy for their new family and am delighted with their pictures (their son is beyond adorable but also Honeybee the dachshund has some serious modeling abilities).

Banff National Park

We went to Canada in late September and all we got was a case of Covid and some iPhone pictures. Here they are. Banff, though beautiful, is extremely crowded (all of these photos have throngs of tourists carefully framed out of the picture). For every outrageously gorgeous lake, there’s a woman changing her winter outfit into a more Instagrammable-one and having her friend take 5,000 model poses of her right next to us. It’s a very strange feeling to be in such a wild, vast place in such a densely packed crowd. It’s not ideally how we’d experience nature, but it was absolutely beautiful nonetheless. There are so many very isolated places to go in Banff if you want to go truly off the beaten path, but the main attractions are the main attractions for a reason, so you have to tolerate the large groups of people. Despite that, we’re feeling enormously grateful for our ability to travel and for our trip to see this gorgeous part of the world. Thanks to everyone who text us on our trip to make sure that we weren’t eaten by a bear.

Pictured: Calgary (to see Coheed & Cambria), Drumheller, Banff National Park, Yoho National Park, and Kootenay National Park.

All photos taken/edited on my iPhone.

Jen+Jon // Family Photographer in Raleigh, NC

OUR FRIENDS. Love these guys. Have photographed them for a long time now. Have a new baby in tow. He’s super cute. He hangs through our scary movie nights like a champ and loves making zombie noises. Have a precious toddler in tow whom I love very much and who calls most carbonated drinks “spicy” and likes to change into his Halloween clothes before I come over to impress me sometimes. Jen and Jon and their kids are like family to us, and we celebrate holidays and good times and bad times and eat amazing food together and overanalyze where to put our favorite stickers and watching really bad movies and sometimes good movies and I’m so glad we have them (and their dog SamSam, not pictured but received many treats after the shoot) in our lives.