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.

meet LAURA

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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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Bradley fell for Ivelisse not long after they met, and Ivelisse knew Bradley was the one she should marry when she saw the determination with which he pursued her. All that love absolutely bubbled over into a radiant engagement session, just a few months before they tie the knot down in Puerto Rico. If their wedding […]

Bradley fell for Ivelisse not long after they met, and Ivelisse knew Bradley was the one she should marry when she saw the determination with which he pursued her. All that love absolutely bubbled over into a radiant engagement session, just a few months before they tie the knot down in Puerto Rico. If their wedding […]

Statistically, Thanksgiving through Valentine’s Day is “engagement season” — the time of year when the majority of couples get engaged. Danny and I followed that pattern by getting engaged in January, and as soon as it was official, we felt overwhelmed with wedding planning to-dos. But along with the initial to-dos, there are a few […]

Statistically, Thanksgiving through Valentine’s Day is “engagement season” — the time of year when the majority of couples get engaged. Danny and I followed that pattern by getting engaged in January, and as soon as it was official, we felt overwhelmed with wedding planning to-dos. But along with the initial to-dos, there are a few […]

About a month before it took place, Adam began planning an elaborate proposal. It involved location scouting, a few white lies (as far as Mary knew, I was a friend of Adam’s from school and just wanted a couple to pose for my camera), love notes tucked inside seashells — which Mary collects — and the […]

About a month before it took place, Adam began planning an elaborate proposal. It involved location scouting, a few white lies (as far as Mary knew, I was a friend of Adam’s from school and just wanted a couple to pose for my camera), love notes tucked inside seashells — which Mary collects — and the […]

I don’t usually preview engagement sessions on the blog these days — but I also don’t shoot a lot of engagement sessions in Virginia. We had two this week. And the one you’ll be seeing on the blog soon, Colleen and Mike’s, couldn’t have been any sweeter. We started their engagement session at Chiles Peach […]

I don’t usually preview engagement sessions on the blog these days — but I also don’t shoot a lot of engagement sessions in Virginia. We had two this week. And the one you’ll be seeing on the blog soon, Colleen and Mike’s, couldn’t have been any sweeter. We started their engagement session at Chiles Peach […]

One of the hands-down most romantic engagements I’ve ever seen . . . and which I was lucky enough to get to photograph . . . has been published today! Taylor and Jerry’s fantasy-horse-filled engagement from last February is front and center on Borrowed & Bleu this morning, and frankly, I’m happy for a reason […]

One of the hands-down most romantic engagements I’ve ever seen . . . and which I was lucky enough to get to photograph . . . has been published today! Taylor and Jerry’s fantasy-horse-filled engagement from last February is front and center on Borrowed & Bleu this morning, and frankly, I’m happy for a reason […]

Let me start off by saying just how happy I am to have Caitlin and David’s gorgeous watercolor-sea-and-sky-filled engagement session on Style Me Pretty Florida today! This engagement session felt like a dream as it unfolded because it seemed almost too beautiful to be real. The sun, the clouds, the shoreline — everything looked like […]

Let me start off by saying just how happy I am to have Caitlin and David’s gorgeous watercolor-sea-and-sky-filled engagement session on Style Me Pretty Florida today! This engagement session felt like a dream as it unfolded because it seemed almost too beautiful to be real. The sun, the clouds, the shoreline — everything looked like […]

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