Session Stories

I hadn’t met this family before the evening we spent together at Mint Springs Park. That’s not unusual — plenty of my favorite sessions start as an introduction. But there’s something about meeting a family for the first time and watching them fall completely, obviously, head-over-heels in love with their little boy in real time […]

Some locations do half the work for you. Barren Ridge Vineyards, tucked into the rolling hills of Fishersville, is one of them — mountains layered on the horizon, grapevines running in soft green lines, open sky that goes gold right on cue in the evening. The team there has been endlessly generous about hosting sessions, […]

Some sessions ask for patience before they give you the light. This one did. I met this family of three in their own yard — the kind of yard that has watched a family grow up in it. A porch that’s heard a thousand stories. A tree that still holds a tire swing, a shadow, […]