I have been sick, but I have been busy doing. And when I say “doing,” I mean “DOING.” I have been culling and reprocessing and prepping my photos and my site for a bit of marketing. My free sessions bled over into paying sessions as we got into fall, and I had a little money [...]

We spent Friday evening and Saturday with two sets of Fambly-type friends (see explanation below), dear friends from college and our old workplace in NOVA. The friendships forged through the choral group Gabe and I led several years ago (Joseph and Katy were members) and the office camaraderie we had with Gabe and Katie when [...]

“Kelly, this is Sarah S_____,” she emphasized her last name proudly, as if it was a hard-won badge of honor – and it was. Their story was a long one, spanning years before they met, but Sarah was finally married to the man of her dreams, and I’ve rarely seen a happier bride in six [...]

When we traveled to my parents’ last month, we braved Bredon’s baby wrath to go by way of Emily’s house and meet her and her husband (and their 5-year-old son – who, by the way, Piper is still talking about! The dads were talking camels and arranged marriage based on how well Emily and I [...]

I had been visualizing a “shopping” sort of shoot for several months, but it took me a while to get schedules figured out. Alexis, Haley, and Jacqueline had agreed to come along and be my models for the morning, since they’d be getting free headshots out of the deal. The day before their session, I [...]

My very good friend Heidi really likes my eye for design. Heidi is an uncollege college friend of mine (meaning I met her in college and she didn’t go to the same school I did – one of those real life friendships that work because you didn’t know each other on campus), and our friendship [...]

It seems as though everyone is talking about the end of summer, missing the outdoor playtime, the pool, the summer vibrancy. But here in Charleston, the heat broke the first week in September and we are beginning to emerge from the air-conditioned shelter of our homes to live outside once again. The nights are cooling, [...]