I’ve got a brand new Frederick, MD engagement session to share with you today – this time, Emily and Jake at historic Gambrill Mill! We are enjoying a jam-packed, super-fun season of life right now, I am living part-time at the ballfield and photographing incredible people on the weekends. Our homeschool year is winding down […]

Heather and Jeff’s wedding at Blue Valley Vineyard in Delaplane, VA was not only an absolute blast, but it was also the most unreservedly windiest wedding I have ever photographed! Most brides prepare a rain plan, but I imagine most don’t consider a wind plan. There was just no escaping it, but Heather had the […]

What an absolute TREAT it is to share this Gettysburg engagement session with you today! When we first moved to Gettysburg five years ago, we didn’t know a soul. I was newly pregnant with Maguire and barfing like you wouldn’t believe, so Justin made a double batch of M & M cookies (a task I […]

Despite needing three layers plus winter boots at the softball fields last night, I am presenting this beautiful session today as hard evidence that spring really is here! My endless sneezing is also a pretty good indicator that pollen abounds, and I’d like to thank the makers of Zyrtec and whatever likely-expired brand of antihistamine […]

I’ve got the prettiest autumn wedding to share with you today – Matt + Molly’s November day at Baltimore’s Mt. Washington Mill Dye House! It’s been a couple of years since I’ve shot here, and it was so nice to be back. We started the day in the city with waterfront portraits before we scooted […]

I had my first wedding of the year this past weekend, a windy and love-filled day at Blue Valley Vineyard in Delaplane, VA, and it was such a nice way to break into the 2025 season. It’s been a bonkers-busy week chatting with 2026 brides, scheduling spring engagement sessions, and booking hotels for weddings on […]

Good morning from the Thomas Household, where the currently energy level is, “ALEXA, PLAY PARTY IN THE USA” followed by 360° scooter spins in the center of the living room. I love the enthusiasm, although I cannot reasonably be expected to match it at the tender time of 7:57 AM. In the words of Rick […]

I am beyond excited to finally share this colorful, funky, vibrant, joy-filled Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum wedding with you! In case you missed it, Allison +Ed’s St. Michaels wedding was featured in the glossy pages of Baltimore Weddings latest issue so be sure to snag yourself a copy if you’re like me and get a little […]

Good morning from the North Pole Gettysburg, PA where we’re still in the single digits but the coffee’s hot and cute couples are plentiful (on my screen, anyway). Inexplicably, I have made it 13 years as a Frederick wedding photographer without ever shooting at Lake Linganore. I’m thankful for Terri and Patrick who suggested we […]

It’s very trendy right now for photographers to gush about how much they’re missing wedding season. My Instagram feed is loaded with throwback images from last year’s celebrations with wispy captions about the magic of wedding season and wishing to return to it ASAP. They’re lying. We are all hunkered down in wool socks, catching […]

I thought Allison + Ed’s wedding at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum was the funkiest, coolest, most heartfelt, and most importantly FUN wedding, possibly of all time. And Baltimore Weddings thought so, too! I was thrilled to find a package on my doorstep Christmas Eve with a few copies of their latest issue, featuring this […]

All my festive holiday cheer has been interrupted by a poorly timed head/chest/throat/body ache situation I absolutely do not have time for. So far no one else in the family has gone down, and I write to you at 12:45 PM on a Wednesday, still in my pajamas and working on my third cup of […]

I have welcomed the slower season with open arms and an extended exhale. I had my last wedding of the year this past weekend at the Mt. Washington Mill Dye House – a gorgeous November affair with black tuxedos, wooly coats, and a very on-brand backdrop, the Domino Sugars sign. I currently sit at my […]

I’ve got two more weddings to go and then that’s a wrap on the 2024 season – but first! – a cheerful and romantic engagement session in Harpers Ferry, WV featuring Samie + Patrick! They’re gettin’ hitched next summer at Dulany’s Overlook and this was such a great warm up to the big day. They […]

I am beyond thrilled to share Maddie + Marcus’s autumn wedding at Musket Ridge Golf Club with you! It was electric blue skies and vibrant fall colors all weekend long – and I’m so glad because these two deserve all the sunshine and more. Ya’ll already know I love police officers (so much I married […]

While you may never have pegged me as a quitter, I am, in fact, a grad school drop out. I am the proud owner of exactly 1/2 a Master’s Degree in Professional Writing from Towson University, the second half I dropped like a hot potato when Quinlan took up residence in my body. I quickly […]

As is my custom each October, everything is nuts. The epic pile-on of softball and baseball, engagement sessions, wedding weekends, homeschooling, co-op, and keeping four children alive (the amount of food consumed in this house would shock you to your very core) catches me off guard every year. Justin and I pass each other coming […]

I have the sweetest Gettysburg anniversary portrait session to share with you today! We are absolutely waterlogged after this past week and feeling a little blue for all the activities and sessions that have been postponed from the neverending rain. Softball! We wanna play it! Sessions! I wanna see ya! Let’s enjoy a big dose […]

Hello and welcome to the start of Epic Fall Wedding Season! I’ve got a gorgeous spring wedding at Bluebird Manor in Adamstown, MD to share with you. I’ve been in the thick of engagement sessions for 2025 brides, spending my evenings on Zoom with future clients, and shooting/editing autumn weddings. I also have all four […]

I spent last Saturday night with Sydney and Jake for their Gettysburg engagement session and I’ve never been so happy to be a third wheel in all my life. These high-school sweethearts got engaged on the Hatfield-McCoy trails after graduating from the University of Alabama (I think I am legally obligated to add ROLL TIDE! […]

I’m not embarrassed to say this is the first New Year’s Eve Ball Drop I’ve seen in over ten years. After 10:00 PM, nothing stands between me and my high thread count sheets. I take comfort in knowing my tube of Carmex, water bottle, and the half chapter of the novel I will read before […]

I’ve got one more wedding to share with you before I put up my Out of Office and we head down south for a much-needed getaway before fall wedding season kicks off. It felt nice just to type that. Out of Office. I like it. But before we pack our boogie boards and a bottle […]

I write to you today as the third member of the Thomas Family who has been stung by a wasp this week. They have us surrounded on all sides with a hive inside a raised garden bed just outside the patio door, and a shaggy gray nest tucked inside a recessed light fixture on the […]

I want a snowfall kind of loveThat lights up the sky from belowI want a snowfall kind of loveThat brings people to their window Ingrid Michaelson, Snowfall Our summer schedule is in full swing and, stacked with wedding season, it already has me craving a quiet, slower pace. I know that’s not in the cards […]

If you are not from the Winchester, VA area, do you know about the Handley Library? I didn’t until Olivia’s email came through at the end of January and I promptly texted my cousin Robin, she herself a Winchester native, and asked, “Where can I shoot in Winchester!?” Olivia and Nathan were planning on eloping […]