St. Augustine Wedding & Portrait Photography Blog

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 […]

Short answer: yes. But not for the reason most photographers will give you. Most will tell you it’s for the photos. The save the dates, the wedding website header, the framed print above your fireplace someday. And those things are real — the photos matter and you’ll use them. But that’s not actually why I […]

If you’ve started researching wedding photographers in St. Augustine, you’ve probably already noticed something: the prices vary wildly. You’ll find photographers charging $1,500 and photographers charging $10,000 for what appears, on the surface, to be the same thing. A person. A camera. Your wedding day. It is not the same thing. I’m going to break […]

Let me guess – you’ve already said it at least once. “We’re not really photo people.” Or: “I have no idea what to do with my hands.” Or the classic: “I just don’t photograph well.” I hear some version of this from almost every couple before their engagement session. And here’s what I know after […]

There’s a parking lot in downtown St. Augustine that I’m a little obsessed with. It’s overgrown. There’s a metal gate falling off its hinges. It’s not scenic in any traditional sense – no Spanish moss, no cobblestone, no waterfront view. But when I brought a couple there at dusk after riding their motorcycle through downtown, […]

There’s a myth floating around Pinterest and wedding blogs that the best engagement photos just… happen. That the photographer hangs back, the couple acts natural, and magic appears. That posing is somehow artificial. That direction gets in the way of authenticity. I’d like to respectfully disagree. I pose my couples. Intentionally. Deliberately. Sometimes heavily. And […]