A Summer UT Gardens Engagement Session A few days before a session with me, an automated email goes out asking my clients to please arrive 5 minutes early to their session. This is my way of hopefully getting to start on time. See, when we decide on the start time for your portrait session, it’s […]

Library Engagement Photos at Hodges Library If you’re reading this, you are probably somewhere in the southeast. Most likely in East Tennessee. You know the temperatures here lately have been scorching; suffocatingly hot. Right now, I’m scheduling sessions as late as possible to have the coolest part of the day and the prettiest lighting. Sometimes, […]

A Beautiful, Sunny Lakeshore Park Engagement Session I don’t know if you’ve been to Lakeshore Park recently, but it has transformed over the last 3-5 years. I remember people asking me to photograph there pre-transformation, and while I thought it was pretty, I never offered it up as a location option to clients. Now, it […]

A Castleton Farms Sunrise Session + A Little Rain Okay, you guys, AJ’s story is about to blow your mind. I did ask permission to share a little bit of his journey on here, and he said I could. I realize I don’t even know half the story he and his parents and Laura have […]

A Downtown Knoxville and Ayres Hall Engagement Session I first met Lauren at a wedding I photographed last year for Maiti & Blake. She was a bridesmaid and during the getting ready portion of that day, I remember sitting off to the side doing detail photos and just cracking up over the conversation happening between […]

One Downtown Engagement Session for the Books! Have I told you how much I love shooting downtown? I just love the whole atmosphere we have going. From the delicious restaurants to the facelift that keeps happening on building after building. Pretty streets and manicured landscaping. Flower boxes everywhere bursting with color, and the cute store […]

Beating the Storm with this Downtown Knoxville Engagement Austin and Courtney live in Kentucky and took off work for two days to come to Knoxville for their Downtown Knoxville engagement session last week. Leading up to their travel day, the weather was all over the place. One hour it would say 70%, then it would […]

A Cosby Campground & Foothills Parkway Engagement Session When couples want mountains in the background, I have a few different locations for them to choose from. I’ll send them example sessions from each spot and ask if there is one that stands out to them. Some spots require a travel fee because they are really […]

Marblegate Farm Associate Engagement Session with Channing & Ryan As you start scrolling through this Marblegate Farm associate engagement session, I have a feeling you are going to fall in love with Channing and Ryan just as much as I did the first time I met them. Their love for the Lord is so evident […]

Castleton Sunrise Engagement Session Yesterday, I wrote a blog about how a couple drove in from out of town, and the evening we were supposed to shoot got rained out so we moved their session to sunrise. Well, this session was the very next day and was already scheduled for sunrise. As we approached it, […]