Woooooo this post has been a LONG time coming.

Friends, there’s a lot to process when it comes to fat positivity.

For starters – what, exactly, IS fat positivity? Why is it necessary? What’s the difference between it and body positivity?

These are all excellent questions, but they’re each their own (very long) blog post. In the interest of time and staying on task, let’s take a super quick look at the breakdown.

What is fat positivity?

Fat positivity involves a lot of things, but overall? It’s a social movement. Fat positivity and fat ... 

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Adventurous Couples Photography | Rankin Lake Park, Gastonia, North Carolina

Y’all, I am SO excited to blog this North Carolina-based adventurous couples photography session today!

When I met Whitney through our mutual friend Abby, I knew she was my kind of people.

We met up at Rankin Lake Park in Gastonia, North Carolina. She didn’t judge me one bit when I had ZERO ability to figure out where she and her husband were in the parking lot. (The lot was not that big. I have no excuse beyond my severe lack of spacial reasoning. They were very gracious.)

Not only were she and Jessie SO warm and so kind to me and my ... 

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Taking a lil break from the usual log of dreamy photos and accompanying captions to talk about something near and dear to my heart.

My fat rolls.

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Ok but seriously, I really do want to talk about fat rolls. And big butts. And thick thighs and chubby arms and double chins and fat fingers and allllllll of it.

Mine, and yours, and theirs, and why we are still being trained to dislike them and even loathe them and how to make the transition from covering them up at all costs to embracing them and even liking them and wearing whatever TF we want.

I’ll ... 

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Picture this with me — it’s the night before your scheduled photography session. You’re standing in front of a closet full of clothes, trying to get ready for the next day. Fast forward to 30-minutes later…do you have an outfit picked out, ready to go, or are you staring at a pile of clothes on your bed that have been cast off as “absolutely no way” or “hmm maybe” but in reality, you just have NO IDEA.

If you’re anything like most people, it’s the latter – and that’s totally ... 

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This post seems counterintuitive, right?

I’m a photographer, I love my clients, I want more of them — so why would I post 5 reasons I might not be the photographer for you? Something that might make people run in the opposite direction? Am I crazy?

I mean, yeah, probably, but that’s not why I’m writing this.

I love photography. Like….loooove it. It lights me up. I love the people I work with. I LOVE sending galleries and getting the “OMG” texts back and ... 

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I met Cait through this fancy little app called Instagram (go follow her on instagram here, and you can find her blog over at The Bedazzled B).

I knew right away that I loved her style and her energy, so when she reached out to me about a session with her husband and their pup Tilly, I was ALL in.

We met up at William B. Umstead State Park in Raleigh for an unseasonably warm afternoon of hiking through the woods, splashing around in the creek, and trying really hard not to twist our ankles — which I’m happy to say was a huge success.

What ... 

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