It’s been another year: we’ve reached the holiday season for 2019! We finished our last mini session of the year, and it was a perfect way to end such a busy time in our lives. 2019 was so full of new couples, new relationships, and balancing family time with business time, and really, we wouldn’t […]

Roses are red, Violets are blue, I’m actually really nervous… to ask to marry you. Okay, well, Ruth and Nathan didn’t get married quite that way. Close, though: Nathan proposed via a poem! Ruth thought what Nathan recited was a cute, romantic poem, but it didn’t click right away. Until it did. She said yes! […]

Another year means another Thanksgiving gone by. Here in the United States, there’s a lot of talk about the meaning of Thanksgiving, about how what we teach children isn’t necessarily accurate, about disconnecting from buying things on Black Friday, and more. There are things worth talking about, but for us, Thanksgiving is simple: it’s a […]

We’ve talked a bit recently about how we celebrate love in all its forms, that despite being a wedding photography studio, we relish the chance to do family shoots. Well, this shoot got to be both! Meet Nichole and Blake. They celebrated their eighth wedding anniversary in October! We see a lot more engagement and […]

If you look closely at our photo shoots, you might notice that Alli and I often shoot during transitional times of day. The sun’s never high in the sky; instead, we get those Arizona pinks and oranges streaking across the sky, casting pale desert light across everything. Sure, sunsets and sunrises here are gorgeous, but […]

Last post, I mentioned that we do shoots for more than just weddings. Guess what: that’s the case here! My son Damien just turned 4 years old. (Cue the gasping. And the sighs of relief, since he’s out of his terrible twos and threes!) Now that he’s getting older, it means Damien’s beginning to move […]

If you’re reading this, chances are you either know me or Jo, or you’ve worked with us and know that we focus on wedding and engagement photography. Saying that, though, is like saying that still-life painters only paint fruit or architects only design buildings: we dabble. When your passion is in something creative, you don’t […]

Sweet Salem just turned one year old! It really flew by–it felt like yesterday that I was in Pinetop shooting Chelsea and Tim’s wedding, let alone getting my maternity photos done. It’s strange how being busy makes time fly, especially when you’re not a kid. The world likes to tell you that time flies when […]

Oh boy. Oh boy. OH BOY. Okay, we’re being a little dramatic, but it’s for good reason: it’s been three years since Alli and I went into business together! Not all small businesses make it this long, so we’re super blessed to still be able to pursue this passion of ours. It’s been a ridiculously […]

It’s been another year, and as the leaves change and the temperatures drop, we start to slide into another fall season. At least, we’re sliding into fall. The leaves here in the Phoenix area don’t really change a ton, and the weather’s been all over the place. But let’s stick with the changing leaves and […]