Misled Storybook Lullabies {Athens OH Photographer}

Another collaboration with my dear friend, and favorite model, Nicole Miller.

Not only is Nicci a fantastic model, but she's also a writer and has graciously sent me a few of her poetic words to add to this blog post :)

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Every seed that has grown profoundly into even the tallest of a tree is eventually broken apart by the lust of a lumberjack and his saw.



Some indescribable beauty, feet folded under and I'd give anything because I'd want to revel in things. In this manner, love, like a tattoo embodied; in front of a map city, slipping in and out of lanes at steady pace. We crisscross like punctured veins across town.



"I still talk to your shadows on cold nights, because they don't pause breath," he said. "They aren't mistakes made along traveling when the world seemed timeless."

"But you're no longer alive," she said, "and all my problems aren't redefined by misled storybook lullabies."



I am the stairs to the attic at which god exists quietly above your crashed party.
Wishful witness to watching eyes close slowly with the satisified smile of arduous adoration.

Rise from mysterious being, arrested heart. For soon we will meet and I, completely driven by the fashion for legacy cold, will outrun alongside even your exquiste exterior. Charming conversation always wanting when we are unable to love in vain no more.



Falling down from the pinnacle, she writes of hand squeezes and fingertips that knowledge a gentle cliched head-over-heels sense of movement.



Pan out and my fingers are poised. Rain is merely a cowardice stranger to the frail heart that talks backwards in dreams. Taking the chase, the colorless sky seems bruised in comparison to autumn leaves intertwined. Desensitized, to see is almost to believe. And so when the hour is quiet, I walk into walls. I walk against walls that feel as though the sky may cave.



All that is sentimental, all that is left unsaid is safe poetry for our cynicism.



Across town, they have risen before the sun. Silence has sung it's savior to sleep until daylight plays prey to the fever.



With just a gist of hope, I pray that perhaps the stars will finally line up.



One doesn't need the words of a traveling man when you're the words that everyone else sings along to.


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Bridals with Sherri {Athens OHIO Photographer}

As part of a standard portfolio building process, I recently photographed a friend of mine in her gorgeous wedding gown at a beautiful flowery greenhouse :) Aside from babies and children, women in white dresses are my absolute FAVORITE subjects to photograph. There's just something so timeless and elegant about it, the way a woman wears her wedding gown, the memories and feelings it brings back from her special day, and the beauty that resonates within her... it's all just so dreamy :)

Here are a few favorites from our shoot:

Motherhood. {Athens OH Maternity & Child Photographer}

In honor of Mother's Day, I want to share a session I had Friday morning. This session was my very first maternity shoot, and I must say, it went pretty well :)

This was one of those sessions where as the photographer you feel like you really connected with the family, and upon going through the proofing process the next day you get a little teary-eyed at some of the beautiful touching family moments you were lucky enough to document for them! So, I would like you guys to meet the "M" Family... I have sooo many more to process, but I'm excited to share their photos today, on Mother's Day, so here are a few that Ive got done so far :)