Winter River Family Session   |  Potomac River   |   Great Falls, MD Take a look at this gorgeous winter river family session at Great Falls! I always get so excited to see this sweet family. I met Brianna when she was pregnant, we took maternity photos in Old Town and I heard all about their story […]

Fall Family Session   |   Rust Manor House   |   Leesburg, Virginia I met this sweet family for Leesburg Fall family portraits at Rust Manor House this past November. It had been a few years since I had last seen them, and it always blows my mind how much kids grow in that timespan…they each grew at […]

The Hobson Family   |   Winter Portraits   |   Warrenton, Virginia Here are a few of my favorite images from my Virginia lakeside family session with the Hobson family at C.M. Crockett Park. I have been seeing this family since the boys were small, and it has been amazing watching them come into their own over the […]

The Mohar Family   |   Fall Portraits   |   York, Pennsylvania Here are a few of my favorite images from a PA lakeside family session this past Fall! I feel like it was just yesterday I was with the Mohars at our Wollam Gardens session celebrating Mandy’s pregnancy with Beck. Fast forward a few months, and now […]

The Trkula Family   |   Downtown Middleburg   |   Northern Virginia I love these Middleburg family holiday portraits! I’ve gotten to know the extended Trkula family over the last couple of years since our COVID home portraits together. Emily and I had our first two babies at the same time – literally our sons share a birth […]

Lifestyle Newborn Session   |   Washington, DC It just so happened that the last shoot before my maternity leave with Pierce was a DC at-home newborn session. I cannot tell you how excited this got me to meet my own baby just a few weeks later! I was introduced to this sweet family for the first […]

Oatlands House & Garden   |   Mangan + Hostetter Families   |   Leesburg, VA    Oatlands Fall Family Sessions   I shot two Oatlands Fall family sessions on the same day last year. They were both so different, and I love how they turned out! Oatlands is a beautiful photo venue. I am so lucky that it […]

Manassas Battlefield   |   The Brewer Family   |   Manassas, Virginia    Battlefield Fall Family Session   This was my first time meeting the Brewer family, and let me tell you, these boys were a trip! I had such a blast! We had the PERFECT evening at the Manassas Battlefield for our mini session. I am *still* […]

Wollam Gardens   |   The Mohar Family   |   Jeffersonton, VA    Wollam Gardens Spring Family Session   The Mohars are good friends of ours. When Eric asked me if he could surprise Mandy with a Mother’s Day shoot, I was so excited! They drove all the way down from Pennsylvania for my Wollam Gardens Spring mini […]

Photographing Large Families Tips for photographing large families and how to take better group portraits I remember when I was first starting my photography business, there were few things that made me as nervous as shooting a family session with more than five or six people. I remember thinking, “How will I organize them? How […]