St. Augustine Wedding & Portrait Photography Blog

Some engagement sessions need a plan. This one needed an Instagram story. Clara and Wyatt were already deep in wedding planning with me when Clara posted a story from inside Wyatt’s motocross shop – Ping King Cycles, the place he builds and races dirt bikes out of in Jacksonville. One look at that wall of […]

Somewhere between saying yes to each other and saying yes to me, you landed here – and I am so honored to be part of what’s ahead. Your contract’s signed, your date is locked on my calendar, and the hardest decision is officially behind you. What comes next is the part I love most – […]

There’s a version of this wedding day that exists on a clear, cloudless afternoon – golden light, dry aisle, a breeze instead of a downpour. That’s not the version that happened, and honestly? I wouldn’t trade what we got. Wyatt and Clara got married at Dolphin Plaza inside Hannah Park in Jacksonville Beach on a […]

Some clients book a session. Lauren booked a whole future. A week after we wrapped her embodiment shoot, Lauren messaged me one question: did I have anything going on for her wedding day? She’d loved the images we made together – and more than that, she’d loved how we made them – enough to know, […]

Here’s the thing I want you to know before anything else: I’m not worried about your kids. Not the toddler who’s decided shoes are optional. Not the six-year-old who would rather sprint directly into the ocean than stand still for five seconds. Not the preteen who’s already told you three times that this is going […]

Some sessions you plan. Some sessions plan you. This one started with an email at eight o’clock at night. I keep business hours for a reason – I learned a long time ago that the work holds up better when I do too – but every so often something lands in your inbox that doesn’t […]

So you booked the session. The one where you finally let yourself be seen – not posed into someone you think you’re supposed to be, but documented as the woman you actually are underneath all of it. Wild, soft, powerful, a little nervous, gloriously alive. First: that flutter you’re feeling right now? Keep it. It […]

There’s a question I get more than almost any other before a session. What should I wear? And I get it – because what you wear matters. Not in a superficial way, but in a deeply practical one. The right outfit will make you forget you’re wearing it. The wrong one will have you tugging, […]

Most couples don’t think about what their photographer is doing. And honestly, that’s exactly how it should be. The best photography is invisible. You shouldn’t feel it happening. You should just be at your wedding, fully present, and weeks later open a gallery that makes you feel everything all over again. But I want to […]

Fools Rush In: A Parker-Binns Vineyard Wedding That Stopped Time Some weddings you photograph. Some weddings you live inside of. Danielle and I first met at a creative farm fashion shoot. She was radiant and easy, and within the first hour she was telling me all about her two young boys with the kind of […]