I got to take Lydia’s senior portraits, and as we were finishing up and heading back, we saw this empty carwash on Shore Drive in Virginia Beach. Terrible lighting. Ugly brick. Dirty ground. Perfect.

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 [...]

I’m about to start offering a Polaroid add-on to my portrait packages after doing a little trial run with Jasmine on our recent photo shoot. You can see more of Jasmine’s shoot on Facebook.

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″ [...]