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Family Portraits are like love letters to future generations. Learn more about their importance here and why you should schedule them regularly.

Elopements are becoming a hot trend in the wedding market. I’ve put together some thoughts on hiring your perfect elopement photographer.

St. Louis in October gives you some of the best engagement session light of the whole year. Here’s how to actually use it. Chase the golden hour, not the calendar. An hour before sunset, the light turns warm and forgiving instead of flat. Book your session around that window rather than whatever time happens to…

You spend real money on a wedding gallery, and then it lives on a hard drive nobody opens. That’s the most common outcome, and it’s the one worth avoiding. Print something, even one thing. A single large print in your home does more than a thousand images sitting in a cloud folder. Pick the image…

Short answer: it depends what the session is for, but here’s how to think about it instead of guessing at a number. Family portraits. Enough time to work through a few locations, get the group shots done while everyone’s patient, and grab some candid, unposed moments once the formal part is finished. Rushing this means…

Fall family portraits in St. Louis mean beautiful color and unpredictable weather, sometimes seventy degrees, sometimes forty, often both in the same week. Here’s how to dress so the photos hold up regardless. Layer, don’t match. Matching outfits read flat in photos. Instead, pick two or three colors from the same family, deep reds, rust,…

Most couples haven’t hired a wedding photographer before. Why would they have? So before the wedding, we talk. That’s the pre-event consult, and it does more work than people expect from a single conversation. Here’s what actually happens on that call. We walk your day, start to finish. Where you’re getting ready, where the ceremony…

Short answer: you don’t have to figure this out. I book the whole day, start to finish, and whatever that adds up to is what it adds up to. No clock-watching, no upsell for an extra hour when your reception runs long. It’s a milestones-not-minutes way of doing this. That’s not how most photographers work,…

Short answer: probably, and not for the reason you’d think. It’s not about looking done up for the sake of it. It’s about how skin actually reads under camera flash and daylight, and how a full day of tears, sweat, and humidity holds up on your face by hour eight. Regular makeup and camera-ready makeup…

Many couples ask whether they should do a first look. While it’s a little “untraditional,” it can be one of the best decisions you make for a calmer wedding day. A first look lets you handle key portraits before the ceremony (while hair and makeup are fresh), creates breathing room in the timeline, and gives you a quiet, meaningful moment together before everything begins.