We’d been back to Max Chaoul. We’d visited the Louvre. Now we were inspired anew. When you look at a piece of art, the subject (usually) stands out. Everything else about the room fades, leaving the emotion and the message of the piece. This happened for us at the Louvre in front of “La Liberté […]

When you’re with someone for a long time, that’s worth celebrating. For some, a “long time” is measured in weeks (can you hear me, eighth grade?), for others a long time is measured in decades. For Mabel and Jason, their milestone celebrated was their first decade of marriage. They happened to be in Paris for […]

After a long, fruitful first session, we were scheduled to take a break between Sydney & Jake’s first and second engagement sessions.  As we were going about the morning, though, we discovered that we clicked SO well that we didn’t want to take a break—we just wanted to hang out more! Sydney & Jake took […]

“I think I wanna go to Boston; start a new life.” Which is what these two did when they left their Ohio town to try living somewhere new—Boston, Massachusetts. We’d never been to Boston, so we were excited to see what we could in between sessions.  It turns out we had no reason to worry […]

While we were waiting out the rain peacefully in a cafe in Nashville, we talked about how close we were to other states.  If you’ve been following us for a while, you know 1. We love traveling (of course!) 2. We’re trying to cross off at least 30 states by the time Amanda turns 30. […]

This is a prime example of why you need to actually plan things (at least a tiny bit).  Our anniversary is in early July.  We had a touch of a break in our wedding season, so we thought we would take a few days mid-week to go to Nashville before things picked up again to […]