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Ten years is a long time when you’re seventeen. Long enough to grow up. To move away. To find new schools, new friends, new dreams, and new versions of yourself. And still, somehow, some people remain part of your story. These four girls first found one another when they were only in second grade. Their […]

The Harned Family | Topsail Island, North Carolina When most people imagine a family photography session, they picture the evening itself. They picture walking onto the beach as the sun begins to sink lower in the sky. They picture children laughing, waves rolling onto shore, and the photographs that will eventually hang on the walls […]

A North Topsail Beach Family Session One day, without even realizing it, your family photographs begin to change. The little hands that once reached for yours become confident hands finding their own way through life. The children who once stood between you in family portraits are suddenly standing beside you. And then, almost before you […]

Some stories deserve to be told exactly where they are being lived. That is one of the reasons I love travel sessions so much. Not every family’s story unfolds close to home. Sometimes it lives in a place they return to year after year. A place filled with traditions, laughter, and memories layered across generations. […]

How to choose a photographer who will preserve your story for generations There is a moment that comes for most people—quiet, unexpected—when you realize just how quickly everything changes. It might be while scrolling through old photos on your phone.Or watching your child do something that suddenly feels older than yesterday.Or noticing that someone you […]

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes, the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” <>Roald Dahl When I returned from my own family vacation in early August, I had two sessions booked that first week […]

When my family moved to Surf City, NC, we were blessed to find a wonderful neighborhood on the mainland, just a mile from the island. Our nextdoor neighbors, the Manleys, were the first people we really met. In the years we have lived here, we have enjoyed their family and some good laughs! So when […]

Together is our favorite place to be… The Greenlee Family was in town vacationing with friends and we had a plan in place to photograph their family. Mother Nature decided it would be fun to spice things up that week and she brought us a week of storms and rain! It definitely had us looking […]

We don’t remember days. We remember moments. And photographs…they remember everything. As a Family Photographer, nothing fills my heart more than being invited into a family’s story. I love learning a bit about each of them and sharing my love of the printed photograph with them. Anyone can snap some pictures, but when a professional […]

The best things in life are the people we love…The places we’ve been…And the memories we’ve made along the way. -Unknown What an amazing evening I shared with the Volinski Family! Late last year I donated a Family Session as a silent auction item for a coastal non-profit. The Volinki family bid on that session…and […]