Mary Grace | Portrait Session

Shooting in the rain (while very admittedly not good for my camera) makes me so incredibly happy! Even more so when you don't realize you've managed to capture individual drops until you load everything onto your computer after the fact.

I met Mary Grace at the beginning of this summer, when we were both hired as baristas at a local Fredericksburg coffee shop. I quickly realized she was just as weird as I am, and our shifts together fast became my favorites out of the week. MG is constantly complimented on her insanely tight curls (which she describes as looking like ramen), and I knew I needed to have her as a model before school started up again in the fall. We managed to squeeze in this super quick session (immediately following an all-afternoon thunderstorm and occurring the evening before she left for school) and I could not be happier with the images we captured!

Jenni | Jockey's Ridge Portrait Session

Remember August? A time of warmth and summer and the beach? Here's a little throwback to the beginning of August, when I dragged my sister away from her beach-time (read evening-wine-beach-time) to head over to the majestic Jockey's Ridge State Park on the Outerbanks. I've visited the Ridge multiple times over the years, but this was the first I chose to shoot there. Sandy hands, flowing hair, floral rompers, oh my!