Introducing: Little Miss Piper Violet

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Engagements: Katie+Joey

Love is in the air, ladies and gentlemen! On two consecutive nights last week, I received text messages from long time friends giving me the news that they were engaged! Last summer, I spent weekend after weekend at wedding showers, bachelorette parties and weddings, but this summer looks to be just the "beginning."

On Friday (just before getting one of the messages!), I met Katie & Joey in Fate, Texas to photograph their engagement photos.

While it pained me just a tad to photograph them in Ohio State jerseys, they were an insanely fun and easy couple to photograph.

Little Miss Katie is the little sister of an old friend of mine. I tend to still think of her as a sophomore in high school, but oh, how she's grown!


Katie & Joey met in college where they both played soccer for Southwestern in Kansas. In the fall, they're returning to Kansas where Katie will be molding young minds and Joey is coaching soccer at Southwestern.

Congratulations Katie & Joey! :)

(Oh, and Bucky, too!)

Sara + Ross | Engagements

The absolute best part of my "job" (how can I call something so fun and fulfilling a job?) is photographing engagements. It is completely my most favorite thing to do. The excitement is still so fresh and the bride has yet to start stressing out about the wedding day. This is purely all about the couple and how much they love each other.

I trekked down to San Antonio this weekend for two reasons: 1) my good friend, Will, was graduating from basic training at Lackland AFB and 2) to photograph Sara and Ross's engagements.

The weather was beautiful and they picked out Trinity University for the photos because that is where they had met. If you haven't been to Trinity University, go! It's beautiful. I fell in love with the red bricks of the buildings

Ross was such a great groom! It is rare to find a guy who doesn't mind having a camera shoved in his face for a couple of hours. But, Ross took it all in stride (and often wouldn't take his eyes off Sara).

Meet Rocco. Rocco is Sara and Ross' dog. Rocco is a diva. Rocco wasn't having it. But, oh, Rocco, I got you!

Congratulations to Sara and Ross! I can't wait for your wedding in August :)

Special thanks to: Laurie Baucum for carrying around my backpack and reigning in Rocco when we weren't using him! :)

Bright lights, big city

This past weekend I finally accomplished something I have wanted to do since high school: I ventured out on the big, bad streets of New York City, New York. Naturally, I took along my camera.

Now, if you know my style of photography at all, you'll probably be able to figure out what inspired me the most about New York City. No, it wasn't the architecture (I can appreciate it from afar, but who really enjoys craning their necks to the sky?). It wasn't the huge, calming effects of Central Park (I've never been much of a landscape photographer). And it wasn't even the diversity of people. It was the movement. Everything moves faster in New York. And I loved it. So, here are a few of my favorites as well as the link to the video I put together of my time in the Big Apple. Do enjoy.

http://www.vimeo.com/8832574