My Journey to North Carolina

Here are some of my photos from my trip for my very first destination wedding in North Carolina. To read the full original blog, please click HERE! Enjoy!!!

The Appalachian Mountains, in the plane!


The gorgeous mountains! There were like NO evergreens so in the fall, everything changes color!


View of the Charlotte buildings from the first night there. We stayed in the suite at the Omni Hotel!


We ate at a delicious restaurant called The Vida, located in the heart of Charlotte. I definitely recommend it! The food we all had was delicious and they have an amazing skinny margarita for only 100 cals. Beyond that, it was a lot of fun exploring what is around there, especially The Noda.


The next day was the wedding. We drove all the way from Charlotte to Beech Mountain.


Look at these colors!!


View from inside Dorothy's house at the Wizard of Oz Resort at Emerald Mountain, where the Ceremony took place.


We did a tour of the house, and there was a mimic of what the house would look like if a tornado had caught it! It was cute.


Cool artifacts throughout the home.




More gorgeous views:


More color!




And THE BEST PART!!!!!! There was a REAL yellow brick road!! And if you followed it, it went through almost every important scene in the movie. They even had trees with faces on them!


Photo of the faces from my phone:


And the most important part of being there, the newlyweds..



It was definitely amazing! I hope to do many destination weddings in the future!!

Maternity: Rob and Jill

Rob and Jill are some very dear lifelong friends that I have made through my wonderful Young Life College group, The Life. I have known them for a good couple years now and they contacted me several months ago with their interest in me doing their maternity photos... well.. that's when I found out they were having a baby and I was SO excited for them! A bun in the oven. All we had to do was wait for the right time. And well... the time came. Jill is just beautiful and Rob is such a wonderful person. They will be amazing parents!!

Family: Matt and Tess

Oh Matt and Tess!! I actually did this session a long time ago but just now realized I never got to posting a blog! So dumb of me because this is seriously my most favorite family session up to date of "new" clients that I just met! Jett was one of the cutest little boys I have ever met! At first he was shy, but throughout the session he loved giving me hugs... and I will never forget his cute face rub he did with his pet kitty! It was so darling. On top of that, his parents are some of the most laid back, fun people I've encountered. Another funny addition, where I live, if you live there long enough, you begin to notice the weird connections between EVERYONE--as long as you've been here for more than 5 years! I've actually been getting to know Matt and Tess, since we have several mutual friends. It's just so nice to run into them and I hope to one day do some family photographs for them again as Jett grows. :)

Married ~ Hannah and Jimmie

Note: Please excuse my awkward branding back and forth as I make my transition and try to keep up with my work as well!! Read more about my self conflict here! HA ;)

Anyway, I met Hannah as another link through my job at Starbucks, as her fiance at the time was one of my regular customers, looking for a photographer for their small family wedding.

I was so happy to do this wedding. It was very different from any other wedding I've been to--very small and intimate, which resulted in a very romantic afternoon! They had the ceremony at the First Presbyterian Church in Colorado Springs, and from there we went to the park downtown for some fun photos. I decided I wouldn't share ceremony photos because of this, but I'll share with you some of my favorite shots of the "newly married" session (+some) right afterward!!





















Ok... ONE shot from the ceremony.. the classic first kiss :)

New Branding!!

So, I've been having a bit of trouble finding the PERFECT branding font to use. I've been going back and forth between several different fonts, but I feel like some of my photography is sooo broad and diverse, that almost anything will fit!! So I decided to take several fonts, do a little bit of self discovery, and find what really suits ME, and what I would be most comfortable with presenting as my own branding, as a professional, simple, tasteful look... something that ADDS to the photo instead of distracting away from it (as you've probably noticed in previous posts) and I think I found what I'm looking for.

I decided to present my finding in some of my favorite form of photographs, and the reason I first started to do photography: simplistic landscape and storm shots. Hope you enjoy!!