Jasmine + AJ | Maternity Photography | Hampton Roads VA

So, this Mother's Day, was made extra special this year... I was able to celebrate by capturing one of my friends' maternity portraits. I think it was the perfect way to celebrate Mother's Day!

Becoming a Mother is one of the greatest gifts and experiences I can have the pleasure to say I have been able to experience personally as well and can speak from the heart. The love to your unborn is unlike any other, it is so unconditional even before they even take their first breath into this world. 

It is amazing what the human body is able to accomplish, how we can grow a human being. It still boggles my mind when I look at my own child, that I made something so beautiful. People asks me what my greatest accomplishment in life is, and I have to say she is, I have never been able to achieve a greater thing than something so beautiful, smart, and innocent, as she is. The bond between mother and child is the strongest bond one could wish to have with someone. 

" No one else will ever know the strength of my love for you. After all, you're the only one who knows what my heart sounds like from the inside. "

I had a wonderful time exploring the Pagoda Gardens in Downtown Norfolk with Jasmine and her husband, it was the perfect place for the occasion, as it seems to never let me down. I am so happy for them to become amazing parents, I know their daughter will be beautiful and I can not wait to meet her!

Welcome Home USS Truman | Homecoming Photography | Hampton Roads VA

A few months ago we welcomed home the USS Truman from a very long deployment. There were tons of families waiting anxiously on the pier with signs and flags, smiles and even tears as the ship was docked and sailors manned the rails. I felt so honored to be able to be apart of that experience despite some mishaps that day. I was able to see so many eager families run and scream with joy as they saw their sailors walking off towards them. There is nothing more rewarding than capturing that pure raw emotion in people, it is one of my favorite parts of having my job; photography is a very powerful art form. I had once been on that pier waiting for long hours upon my sailors return, I know how heart-wrenching it can be, how nervous you are to first see them but once they walk towards you and you feel that embrace of your first hug after months and months, it seals all the missed time between you two, nothing else matters in that moment. The world around you freezes and your heart is complete, and I was able to see that for so many families and be able to capture those frozen moments of being reunited for many.

If you see anyone you may know in the photo's below please contact me, as I have not been able to find the names to go along with these faces and would love for them to have these photo's for themselves; to view more click here.

" Love knows no distance, our love is deployment strong " <3