A + D wanted something quiet, private, and intimate focused around love. Love, peace, change, nature, spiritual connection, and life. They invited me down to Asheville, North Carolina to the stunning mountainside home of one of their dearest friends and mentors who would be conducting and officiating the ceremony. They had spent the morning gathering […]

I invited Samantha and Ethan out to my horse pasture in Middle Tennessee to take a few hours to themselves and connect. They were so comfortable with each other, and spent the session laughing, teasing, and telling me stories about their love. Samantha is a photographer herself, and Ethan was so expressive about how proud […]

A y’allterantive couples portrait session in the farmland country of East Tennessee featuring my AQHA blue roan and my late APHA little gelding. These two spent the entire afternoon holding tight to each other, brushing the horses, frolicking through the field, and getting spicy on the longhorn hide rug. If you’re interested in your OWN […]

Sewanee, TN is where I attended college for my BFA and I am constantly down that way to hike, photograph, and explore- I know that place about as well as I know my own hometown and I love sharing it with my clients. The campus is over 13,000 acres of open land including caves, waterfalls, and a 23 mile […]

Nick and Destiny came on over to my farmhouse in Tennessee, right on the outskirts of Appalachia, near the Cumberland, to spend their afternoon together in a quiet, intimate embrace, reveling in the sunset, and laughing softly about the future. Young love is so often overruled by social standards, the race to graduate, make good […]

Eli and Ellie (made for each other so much so that their names go together) are a quiet couple, full of life, a future bursting with life and joy. They hold exploration and travel, especially travel to National Parks and Wilderness Areas in high regard. I don’t necessarily recommend sessions within the legal bounds of […]

There’s nothing better in this world than true love and rescue horses. Rescue horses hold a very special place in my life, I’m the proud partner to a rescue American Paint (with many more to come, that I’m sure of.) Horses are synonymous with the idea of freedom, of being wild, of pure joy. However, […]

Appalachian APP-UH-LATCH-UN. For some reason I hear a lot of dismissal of the fiddle. Hillbilly music. Old timey. Hickville. Backwards. It’s shrugged off, ignored, scoffed at by folks with degrees in fancy schools. For a moment I guess we can set aside the fact that the fiddle ain’t exactly what we might call easy to […]

A lot of times we get caught up in all of these word choices and phrases and trending concepts when it comes to photography and portraiture. Editorial has come to stand in place for something minimal and in-authentic while “authentic” has some to mean only candid shots with blurry faces and unusual angles. The truth […]