je vois photography

A few years ago I ran across a wedding photographer out of Detroit whose work was perfect. My favorite instagram follow for sure. Niki Marie Photo. And then this fall she announced a workshop right near me in beautiful Charleston. It was chock full of learning and beauty and pampering and photo opportunities. So much […]

Kellie & Brandon have such an interesting story and some really beautiful and unique details thrown into their wedding day. They were stationed together in Alaska with the Army where they got to know each other. They weren’t allowed to date, so when they returned to Alabama everything really got going. Aren’t just those two […]

One of my most favorite things is to photograph multiple events in the life of a family. At least a decade ago I photographed Jenny and Peyton’s wedding and last year I met and photographed their beautiful daughter at her infant session (porch session as it was during the quarantine.) Last month I got to […]

Meg’s wedding combined with her personality was fun and unique. She wanted to marry Josh. She wanted it to be beautiful. And she hired people to make it so. Then she just enjoyed the day. The wedding had 5-star vendors, beautiful details and planning. With a laid-back bride. Stuff of DREAMS!!!!! We started out at […]

In November I shot the most beautiful wedding. I should have known. Nicole is an artist. Art director, graphic designer, etc. She was beautiful and everything she chose and organized was beautiful. But my favorite part of the day was the emotion. As soon as she started walking down the aisle the tears were flowing. […]

I talked to Jennifer more during the quarantine than any other bride. Her care for her family and guests in making plans for her wedding day was more thoughtful than any I’ve seen. She made sure to follow the ever-changing rules and protect those she loved most. And despite or maybe because of that it […]

Long, long ago I taught Sunday school to an extremely bright group of 4th-6th graders at our church, Altadena Valley Presbyterian Church. Some of them went to schools that taught Bible, some were the daughters of brilliant theologians and all had been at our church since birth and had so much spiritual knowledge in their […]

There are a lot of hard things about this season of isolation and insecurity.  ONE thing I’m enjoying about it though, is the occasional quick, elopement-type wedding.  Margaret messaged me just 2-3 weeks before her big day.  She and Lee had been planning a big wedding in Jackson Hole with all their friends and family. […]

I vaguely remember meeting with Laura what seems like a lifetime ago… pre-covid and life as we know it changing beyond recognition.  We tried to schedule Laura and John’s engagement session several times but between her crazy nurse schedule (the schedule is crazy, not the nurse!) the weather, and quarantine life, it never could happen. […]

Several months ago, I had the honor of singing back-up in a Leonard Cohen tribute band in Atlanta.  Sometimes I could hear someone singing behind me.  And during set breaks, two of the musicians would just have the best time playing old familiar rifs or things they had been working on.  One of these, and […]

My sweet friend Lisa started glowing a little less than a year ago.  You never saw her without a smile.  She was planning a wedding.  Her own.  She had known Dennis for years and always just as friends.  And how many couples do you know that said they had never considered their friend as anything […]

I love the connections between people.  While I hadn’t met Abby, my husband and her brother went to high school together.  Her fiancé, Eric, and my husband also coached soccer at the same club for many years.  When Abby and I spoke on the phone for the first time, I felt like we were already […]

It’s a little shameful that I’m just now blogging Coley and Alex’s wedding.  But better late than never, right?  Since it’s been over a year and a half, you should know that they now have a beautiful daughter who I am begging them to let me photograph.  Do better with the blogging, Hillary… Soooooo, Coley […]

Mary Claire was one of very few brides I didn’t meet until her engagement session.  It’s risky… what if we don’t click? What if I drive her nuts? What if the fiancé doesn’t like the way I direct them?  BUT….. we laughed and laughed. At one point he flipped her upside down.  So I think […]

I was so excited to be asked to shoot Laura and Eric’s wedding as soon as she asked me.  I had seen her dance with the teachers in our elementary school talent show (hot!!!) and I’d seen him walking to school to get his sons (also hot!!!) And their story was just so sweet.   […]