Lifestyle Portrait and Wedding Photographer located in Western Kentucky

May 20, 2013

Lone Oak High School Senior, Class of 2013, Nick

This guy…. if I ever have a son, I hope and pray that he is as like this young man. Nick is apart of the last graduating class of Lone Oak High School, my alma mater, so this session was already dear to my heart. Next year all three county schools will be combined into one LARGE county school – the transition has been on a lot of our minds lately but Nick is busy thinking about his transition! Nick will attend University of Kentucky this fall AND band in the UK marching band! I was in marching band (color guard) too so again, loving this kid! He is also a genuinely good, polite, caring, generous Christian boy and you know how hard those are to come by. Oh and I did I mention handsome? Yea, he has that going for him too. Take a look!

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May 17, 2013

Jessica & Ben’s Utica/Hartford Kentucky Wedding

The moment I get to the ceremony site is always a very exciting time for me. I immediately go to find the bride and hug her. After all, it’s been weeks since I last saw her, months since her engagement session, and gosh darn it, it’s her wedding day! I am ecstatic for her! Once that is taken care of, I can get to work. It always happens that way, even when I haven’t seen the bride. Ever. Like, Jessica’s wedding day is the first time we’ve physically met. Sure, our phone meetings were enough for me to know that she was my kind of bride but it’s totally different meeting face to face. Because neither Jessica or Ben lived near me or the area in which their wedding took place, phone chats are all we’d had. That first few moments when I got to Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church we extreme special for me because not only was I greeting my bride, but also meeting her. Hugs were definitely still given!

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May 15, 2013

Things I’m Loving in May

Connect Retreat 2013 may be over but we’re already starting to plan for Connect 2014… I seriously cannot wait!!

I ~~hardly~~ never just sit and watch TV – I’m always editing or blogging or replying to emails while watching whatever TV show I’m addicted to at the moment. Right now, it’s Being Human. Again, thanks Netflix!

Speaking of obsessions, how about a fattening one? I love love love Five Guys Burgers and when I’m traveling I always try to find one en route.

I’ve been listening to the Twilight soundtrack here lately and it’s made me want watch all four Twilight movies, one after the other. Gonna do that as soon as I have time.

I’m still wearing primarily mint and coral colored articles of clothing and I see that continuing for a while.

This little baby – the Canon 35mm L f/1.4 – is my new toy and I seriously can’t shoot portraits without it anymore. Like, if my house were on fire, this is the first inanimate object I would grab… other than my laptop… and camera…. and Coach bag

Ah, Vera Bradley. I’ve been buying it up like it’s going out of style.. and then I find out there’s a Vera Bradley Baby Collection!

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May 13, 2013

Melissa’s Western Michigan University Maternity Session

I’ve been friends with Melissa for gosh, I don’t know how many years online but it wasn’t until 2010 when we finally met in person. A short coffee date was all she had time for while driving through Kentucky on her way home from her mom’s in Tennessee. A year later we met in Indianapolis for a weekend… we’d become very close by then. A year after that Melissa tells me she’s expecting and invites me up to Michigan to photograph her maternity session when the time comes. The beginning of May FINALLY came around and I was off to a state I’d never even driven through to spend some quality time with my close friend and her little baby bump. Baby A should be very very soon so I wanted to share these while there is still a bump to share!

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May 11, 2013

Connect: A Marriage Retreat for Photographers

In less than one year from now, Neil and I will be returning to The WinShape Retreat Center in Rome Georgia. Returning to the best marriage retreat we could have ever stumbled upon. Returning to our new found friends and new found inspiration. Returning to the most amazing “camp” food I’ve ever eaten in my life… to the most comfortable bed I’ve ever slept in. We will once again spend four wonderful days with fellow photographers praising God, learning how to grow a Christian based business, and strengthening our marriage by placing God at the head of our lives. I had no idea what CONNECT would hold for us but now that I have a taste, I am hungry for more. And I know there is SO MUCH more.