AN ELEGANT, VINTAGE WEDDING VENUE WITH ITS OWN CHAPEL AND DEEP ROOTED HISTORY NESTLED IN BURKE COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA. I recently met Samantha (Sam for short) for bridal portraits right before her wedding at Bridgewater Hall in Morganton, NC.  When I first met Sam she had a very familiar face to me and I noticed […]

I needed a fresh floral bouquet for a photo shoot I was doing this week at a new venue, Bridgewater Hall.  I had a budget of $20 in mind that I wanted to stay under.  I knew I wanted the bouquet to be pink and purple.  I also wanted it to pop with color but […]

It takes a lot of sweet talking and by sweet talking I mean bribery $$ to get this one to let you take his picture.  This is my son, Ben, and let me tell you he drives a hard bargain.   I don’t even care because I hardly have any pictures of him and I […]

We have two dogs, Max and Skipper but this post is about our dog Max.  He is 13 years old and we adopted him from Friends for animals 10 years ago.  He is such a good boy and has been such a loyal friend to us over the years.  You could say he is a […]

Grace and I decided to take her portraits at the NC Arboretum in Asheville, NC.  Not the best time of year for this but you never know until you try.  It had been close to 20 years since I had been there so I couldn’t remember what was even there.  Next time I go I […]

These are my kids.  Grace and Benjamin, but we call him Ben.  Grace is 15 and Ben is 11.  When I was expecting Ben, Grace and I would say our prayers at bedtime and she would always pray for a brother.  Well she got one and they have always been close.  So close that they […]

 I had such fun taking these one year portraits of Addilyn.  You can’t just take a one year old out in the freezing cold this time of year but THANKFULLY we had beautiful weather for our session! Addi is such a sweet little girl and I absolutely love her red hair.  It’s just gorgeous! Not […]

This beautiful girl isn’t even 20 years old yet and she has 2 degrees!   She just graduated this month from Liberty University after completing Burke Middle College.  One of the joys of graduating in December is the unpredictable weather.  Sydney froze to death during this session but you would never tell it in these […]

Meet Aaron and Brittany Buchanan and their baby, Fisher.  We had quite a bit of bad weather this week so we worked their session in around the snow, which I think turned out to be beautiful!   I thought it was so funny when Brittany contacted me to book their session, she told me right […]

Meet the Franklin Family.  Dylan and Toni live in South Carolina with their two adorable children.   Toni contacted me a while back to do their pictures when they would be in town visiting family. They were actually staying an hour away with Dylan’s mom but also have other family in Morganton. I was just amazed […]