Sara was so natural, this was intended to be a light-test photo, but like so many “tests”, it ended up in the final batch. This was taken with the Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8 – one of the later renditions of the lens. I love how sharp and contrasty this lens is without any tweaking. It’s certainly [...]

This is my beautiful sister-in-law Sara. She wanted to have a “country” feel to her portraits, and so we decided to shoot them all out in Ivor, Virginia where her family lives. We started on their own family farm and then ventured out to find some country treasures around the area. One such treasure we [...]

My wife and I had the pleasure of spending time at the Tate farm in Windsor, VA to shoot Grace’s senior portraits. I am a texture fiend, so walking around their farm is like Toys-R-Us for a 7-year-old. Shot with the Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 on a Nikon d700 with an Alien Bee B1600 with 48″ [...]

This was taken on top of Mount Trashmore in Virginia Beach. For those of you who grew up in VB, that doesn’t phase you at all. Mount Trashmore is a landfill that the city turned into a park. It’s favorited by kite-flyers, joggers, and when it snows, it’s frequented by daring kids with trashcan lids. [...]