Last night was a really fun time meeting up with 13 other local photographers at our monthly Kansas City SmugMug meeting! It was at Layne Haley Photography’s studio in Strawberry Hill, Kansas. Our featured speaker was a local talent, Alea Lovely of Alea Lovely Videography + Photography. She is one seriously talented woman and you […]

This summer has been an absolute joy, exploring my career in photography and making some of really great friends along the way. I met up with my fellow photog friends Sara Tafoya, Kevin Keith, Ashley Keith, Leslie O’Hara, Layne Haley, and Christina Blincoe for Sara’s birthday party and fun-in-the-sun shoot. As you will see, the […]

Joe and Emily’s wedding was at a beautiful venue in Kansas City, Missouri,  The Loretto. This was my first wedding with the talented Layne Haley at Layne Haley Photography. Emily is a drop-dead gorgeous bride and Joe was the biggest sweetheart who you could tell just adored Emily. They are both teachers and so there […]

Laughs and giggles. Emily and Josh’s engagement session was full of them!! We started off at the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri because the couple loved all of the architecture (who doesn’t?!) especially since Josh was an architect major in college. Then we headed to one of my favorite places to visit in […]

Jason and Heidi’s wedding was at the Grand Loft in the small town of Osawatomie, Kansas, located south of Kansas City. This was my second wedding with Sara Tafoya Photography. They were very laid back and it was just a really fun day with Heidi and Jason and their wedding party, despite the 100+ degree […]

This year I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to shoot with Sara Tafoya Photography.  It has been a wonderful experience to work with and learn from very talented photographers. My first wedding of the year was located at Fahrmier Farms Vineyards and Winery in Lexington, Missouri. It was a very hot day and a storm […]

About a year and a half ago, Cody and I adopted this sweet little ball of white fur from the Heart of America Humane Society. The story of how he got his name was: we were driving home right after picking him up from the adoption center and we were trying to come up with […]

The name of the photography workshop I attended earlier this Spring hosted by the fabulous Amanda Eaton with Amanda Eaton Photography. The name served very well for what we would be learning that day… how to illuminate our subjects. Amanda Eaton is a natural light photographer in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, who I was so glad […]

It was your first day of school. I remember mine. For some reason, I ALWAYS had a runny nose and watery eyes on the first day of school growing up. Always. Never the day before. Never the day after, just the first day of school. I remember specifically bringing two boxes of Kleenex the every […]