In August, I had a day of mini-sessions to support the Cook family in their adoption process. Each of the families that came out to support the Cook’s were amazing families that wanted to help their friends.

The last mini-session of the day was for the Cook family.
Enjoy their photos.

If you have an idea for an opportunity to give back to a family or the community, please let me know and I would love the chance to be involved.

In August, I had a day of mini-sessions to support the Cook family in their adoption process. Each of the families that came out to support the Cook’s were amazing families that wanted to help their friends.

The sixth mini-session of the day was for the Carter family.
Enjoy their photos.

If you have an idea for an opportunity to give back to a family or the community, please let me know and I would love the chance to be involved.

In August, I had a day of mini-sessions to support the Cook family in their adoption process. Each of the families that came out to support the Cook’s were amazing families that wanted to help their friends.

The fifth mini-session of the day was for the Campen family.
Enjoy their photos.

If you have an idea for an opportunity to give back to a family or the community, please let me know and I would love the chance to be involved.

In August, I had a day of mini-sessions to support the Cook family in their adoption process. Each of the families that came out to support the Cook’s were amazing families that wanted to help their friends.

The fourth mini-session of the day was for the Willett family.
Enjoy their photos.

If you have an idea for an opportunity to give back to a family or the community, please let me know and I would love the chance to be involved.

In August, I had a day of mini-sessions to support the Cook family in their adoption process. Each of the families that came out to support the Cook’s were amazing families that wanted to help their friends.

The third mini-session of the day was for the Walker family.
Enjoy their photos.

If you have an idea for an opportunity to give back to a family or the community, please let me know and I would love the chance to be involved.

In August, I had a day of mini-sessions to support the Cook family in their adoption process. Each of the families that came out to support the Cook’s were amazing families that wanted to help their friends.

The second mini-session of the day was for the Loveland family.
Enjoy their photos.

If you have an idea for an opportunity to give back to a family or the community, please let me know and I would love the chance to be involved.

In August, I had a day of mini-sessions to support the Cook family in their adoption process. Each of the families that came out to support the Cook’s were amazing families that wanted to help their friends.

The first mini-session of the day was for the Nibali family.
Enjoy their photos.

If you have an idea for an opportunity to give back to a family or the community, please let me know and I would love the chance to be involved.

It’s not often that I get an opportunity to photograph three genrations together. It give me great joy to see families that set aside time to get together and enjoy one another. I had a blast meeting and photographing the Willoughby family. They were such a fun group to be with and talk to. I had so much fun playing with their kids and getting to know them.
We meet at the Knoxville Botanical Gardens for our session and wandered through they stone terrace and the beautiful gardens. Throughout the session, I had the privilege to watch this family love on one another. We finished the session out by letting the kids get dressed up in their University of Tennessee orange gear and play in an open field.

Enjoy the photos.

I love every opportunity I get to photograph anything. But when I photograph people, it rejuvenates me and makes me love my job even more. On top of that, when I get the opportunity to photograph a newborn, I am left in awe. Photographing a newborn always leaves me with a sense of hope. Hope for what that child will accomplish with their lives, hope for the people who will be touched by the innocence of that child, and hope that this world will be a brighter and happier place because of this child.

I recently had the joy of photographing Levi. He is such a sweet child and cooperated with me in every image I wanted to create. Some people are frustrated or put off by a crying baby, but I just roll with it. When a baby cries, especially a newborn, they are just trying to tell us they don’t know what is going on. They just want to be reassured and comforted. So what do I do when I’m working with a crying newborn, I work the tears into the photography session. This is part of the growing process and to me can create some of the most beautiful and touching images.

Enjoy the photographs of little Levi.

As many of you know, my photography focus is and always has been children and families. I will refer weddings to other photographers who love to shoot them. But every once and awhile I have a client, who is a dear friend, ask me if I will shoot their wedding. This was one of those cases. I’ve known Fred and Kim for years and have watched them grow closer. I was extremely excited for them when I heard they were getting married and when they asked me to photographer their wedding, I couldn’t say no.

Kim and Fred’s wedding was a small family affair that took place at the beautiful RT Lodge in Maryville, TN. The weather was rainy and dreary until around 45 minutes before the wedding. At that time the sun came back out and it was beautiful. Kim and Fred had a beautiful outdoor ceremony officiated by one of their dear friends.

I had a wonderful time photographing Kim and Fred’s wedding.  Here is a photograph of them on their wedding day.

Enjoy the video of their wedding photographs.