My pretty Baby Club friend, Mattie, took me out to her grandpa's farm for her one year photo shoot. Check out the photos above and below...

I'm thrilled to say that the May wedding of Elena Wade and Scott Bradford was just posted on the blog for Unveiled Magazine.  You can check it out by clicking here.

Today I had the opportunity to photograph Mary Margaret O'Neal, rising Augusta Christian Senior. Like most of my subjects, Mary was tentative as we began the session- not sure where to stand or how to look at the camera. Boy, by the time the session was drawing to a close we were hee-haw-ing and having a blast.  Mary was posing like a runway model and seemed sure of herself...and why shouldn't she?  Mary has lovely eyes and perfect skin and dimples!  Thanks, Mary- you are so much fun to photograph.  I know you are going to love the rest of your session images as much as the three I've posted here.

Do you see the bride and groom below?  That's Curtis and Christina Holmes on their wedding day in 2007.  Christina was a radiantly smitten bride.  Curtis and Christina walked the aisle, said their vows, and partied with friends and family in what was one of the most beautiful and lavish weddings I have photographed. 

All of that planning...all of that romance...

it was the just the beginning-albeit a marvelous one- to the book of their lives together.

Chapter One, "I Do".

Chapter Two, "We're Having a Baby".

Meet Sullivan, the bouncy baby boy of Curtis and Christina. While I was photographing baby Sullivan today, I was telling Christina how my own oldest boy would be heading to high school this year.  But it seems like only yesterday that his Dad and I fussed over our new boy and washed our hands fifty times a day.  Can I tell you that I almost laughed out loud when I pulled up to their driveway for our photo session?  The Holmes live in a lovely home in a manicured neighborhood.  I had never been there before and I did have precise directions but I could have picked out their home without the address...mile high grass and the morning paper still sitting at the end of the driveway at 6pm. And  Curtis and Christina inside with the unmistakable look of exhausted, joyful satisfaction as they introduced me to their brand new son.  No one could have told them how tired they would be, how challenging babies can be, or how the very moment they laid eyes on Sullivan they couldn't imagine in a million years how they Ever got along without him.

It was perfect.  The nursery, the happy parents, the gorgeous new baby, and the unmowed lawn....there really is nothing on Earth as wonderful or as life-changing as a new baby.