After Marc and I were married, we went on a medical humanitarian trip to the Dominican Republic. While it was so different from the life that I had become accustomed to living, there was an appreciation of life that was tangible. And there was a beauty. A beauty unlike anything I had experienced thus far in my life. This is when I had my first desire to learn about photography. To be able to capture that beauty so that I could remember it. 

I wanted to remember the feeling I had, the thoughts I was having as I documented. When I look at the image above, I can almost remember the smell of the food being prepared for these kids in the orphanage. There is so much that you can remember as you look at a photograph. 

Eventually that translated into capturing family photos. As a Memphis Family Photographer, family photos are my bread and butter. Creating moments within a family to make your kids smile and capturing that moment mean everything to me.

I have over 30,000 photos on my phone camera roll. Most of those are of my daughter, Chloe. Sometimes I'll scroll through and look at those photos from when she was born. But more often, those photos just remain there - untouched. 

As a Memphis Family Photographer, I started creating custom albums so that instead of looking through them once a year, you look at them often. If you set them on your coffee table, in a bookshelf in your living room, etc. Somewhere that you'll see them often. You'll look at them often.

My goal is to make it so that you look through your artwork and remember. Remember the feelings you had when your baby was a newborn and you were sleep deprived, but so in love. Remember when your baby started sitting up and all of the sudden started looking more like a human. Remember when they started crawling and walking and you thought, "I need to baby proof!". Remember when all of the sudden they could listen to you and follow commands. Remember when your little one stopped looking like a toddler, and now looks like a little kid. 

It all goes by so quickly. But my goal is to create an experience during our session where you'll have fun, we'll get genuine smiles, and you'll have photographs to remember each stage of childhood. Because thats's really what it's all about.