I'm a photographer in Greensboro, North Carolina and here are my thoughts on what I shoot:

For those of us who aren't EMS workers or heart surgeons, most of our days are spent at a fairly steady emotional level -- going to work, shopping for groceries, driving our cars, cleaning out the gutters -- and then there are those few moments when we are wide open with love and gratitude and humility. We are surrounded by the people whom we adore, we are supported and cherished and celebratory. That's where I get to come in: I am standing nearby to quietly take photographs of what's happening and how it affects you so you will never forget what it feels like.

I've been taking photographs since I was about 17, then dabbled in some other art forms such as acting, directing and writing, and came back to photography in 2002. I shot for magazines and newspapers as a freelancer and did my first wedding for a friend in 2003.

Since then my images have appeared in Martha Stewart Weddings, Real Simple Weddings, The Knot, Weddings Unveiled, and Southern Weddings. I was very humbled to have won the Bride's Book Readers' Choice Award two years in a row, and one of my images was a winner in this year's "Top Knots: The Best of Wedding Photography" contest in PDN Magazine. My children's photography is currently being featured on Tinyprints.com.

I graduated from New York University's photography program at Tisch School of the Arts, my (non-wedding)work has appeared in the New York Times, the News & Observer, Billboard, US Airways, Attache, Atlanta magazine, and The Sun. I have also studied and lived in France, Egypt, Italy, and Spain and traveled to Cuba in 2002 courtesy of an Emerging Artist grant from the North Carolina Arts Council.

As for those highlight moments? if I am asking you to trust me with yours, here are a few of mine: