I've
always been
storyteller.

But I never set out to be a photographer. I was (and still am!) going to be a writer. And then as I worked toward that writing goal, someone put a camera in my hand and asked me to try telling stories with something besides words. So with an English nerd's love for character and tone, a romantic's love for poignant beauty, and a realist's love for imperfection, I dove in.

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I've
always been a
story-teller.

That was back in 2010.

Since that time, photography has changed much of my life. It's brought me some of my dearest friends. It's reshaped the way my husband Danny and I view serving others. It has even literally taken me around the world. One thing that hasn't changed: my soul-stirring desire to tell stories that feel so real you're sure you knew them before you heard them. Or saw them. It's my privilege to tell those stories for my clients, and for the generations of their families still to come.

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Valentines and Text Messages

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

“We” sort of started via text message — literally my first text message ever, because I was late to the game. All the games. Here I was, a sophomore in college, and I’d just bought my first cell phone years after my friends all started carrying them. Also, I’d never had a boyfriend.

But his first text wasn’t a heart-fluttering proclamation of love. It was an invitation . . . to go grocery shopping to help him get ready for an upcoming dinner party at his house. (Insert sound of crickets here.) I texted back for the first time ever: “Ok.” It was an auspicious start if ever I saw one.

We did go grocery shopping. We did start emailing back and forth daily when he was out of the country for three weeks. We did talk on the phone until 6:00 a.m. one day when I had to leave the house for a big conference at 6:45. We did go on our first date the night I turned 20. We did keep texting each other — “<3” and “:-x” and “XOXOX!” We did fall in love. And we are living happily ever after.
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone — especially to our beautiful couples who are experiencing the first Valentine’s Day of their marriage, and to our beautiful couples who are experiencing the last Valentine’s Day before their marriage!

And happy Valentine’s Day especially-especially to my own Valentine. XOXOX!

~ Laura

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