THE BICHELL FAMILY

Meet the Bichell family.

I met them in San Diego about 7 years ago and when they moved to Nashville, they brought my family with them!

When I was home last month I was fortunate to spend an afternoon

drawing on their chalkboard, frolicking in their field, and catching up with all of them. 

Thank you, Bichell family for being such a joy and blessing to my family all of these years!

THE RUSSELL FAMILY

Meet Josie.

She's the sweet daughter of the lovely Russell family.
I got to meet them while I was in Nashville last month and we had too much fun dressing her up and taking photos all afternoon!

WEDDINGS, WEDDINGS, AND MORE WEDDINGS TO COME.

Last March I met Mary Chrisman of Floataway Studios. Mary owns a wedding and lifestyle photography business and was looking for an intern to assist her at weddings and with post-production editing.  I found out about her need for an intern via twitter and contacted her expecting it to be somewhat of a long shot.  We met for coffee a few days later and we immediately clicked...in fact it was sort of weird how much we clicked...it felt more like I was catching up with an old friend than meeting someone for the first time.  Low and behold, I got the job!

I spent this last year shooting all kinds of weddings and learning all things wedding related with Mary and also with my good friend, Marissa of Maharaj Photography.

Mary recently hired me on her staff as an associate photographer so I've begun booking my own weddings for this coming year! I'm so, so excited for this new journey.  Stay tuned... I'll soon have a wedding/lifestyle photography blog linked to Mary's Floataway Studios' blog, but for now these are a few of my shots from our more recent weddings.....

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I apologize for my short hiatus...

I seem to have abandoned the blogger world since June, 

but I'm back and ready to put some new work up!
Stay tuned!

Kate Graduates!

Hours after I finished finals, I was off to San Francisco to watch my best friend graduate from USF!

Happy Graduation, Kate!!

I'm so, so, so proud of you!

Ivan the photographer

This is my new friend, Ivan.

We've been meeting weekly for the last few months, going on grand adventures and learning about photography together. 

The program we've been meeting through is ending this week so I thought I'd showcase some his amazing photographs here! All the photos below were taken by Ivan.

He is on his way to a brilliant career in photography! Ivan's a natural!

The mentoring program I volunteered through is called SPARK.
(Ivan is showcased on the front page!!)

Our self portraits:

Our adventures:

We went to a dance studio and photographed dance practice:

We played with stray cats and yellow doors:

We ventured at Union Station:

And today we visited Exposition Park where Ivan decided photographing nature is his favorite:

The Trips.

I saw my favorite triplets for a couple hours last week.
They definitely aren't babies anymore!

Olivia's personality makes up for her lack of hair.

She's become the ring leader of the three.... 

Isabelle is still the quiet and calm mannered one.

She and Olivia are polar opposites...

And Riley is still as smiley as ever.

She was the most cooperative (and possibly my new favorite)....

But....trying to get all three to pose in the same picture was nearly impossible....