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Destination Wedding and Lifestyle Photographer based in Knoxville, Tennessee Tennessee Wedding & Lifestyle Photographer!
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While I am based in Knoxville TN, I've spent the last year photographing all over the United States and love the challenge of a new location. As a wedding, portrait, and lifestyle photographer I am a curator of memories. When a client books me I know they are trusting me with a special chapter in their life. My photographs often reflect film tones, natural light and candid moments. My ultimate goal is to help you have fun making memories while also preserving them.

08/07/2022

I've been struggling to find my voice. It's lost in anger, fatigue, issues with my health, and frankly just where to begin. Is my voice the right voice? Should I just be listening? Should I be doing more? And when my voice is gone my creativity goes with it. I've had a giant block for months now, really maybe years.

Over the past two years I've navigated crippling cluster headaches, double eye infections, debilitating tailbone pain, a new autoimmune disease, pneumonia, Covid and a conglomeration in my left lung.

It's been a lot. Admitting that it's been a lot is hard.

It's hard to carve out time for creativity when you're working full time and a parent. It's even harder when you don't feel good and your body demands attention.

So I've been paying attention to it, or at least trying to. But my mind, even though it's blocked, longs to be creative: to write, to play, to create, to dream.

What do you do when you lose your voice or have a creative block?

19/06/2022

When you realize that person walking towards you is your Daddy.

09/06/2022

Love watching my clients (and friends) take over the world 💪

10/03/2022

It's not bad here.

02/02/2022

"Out there may be monsters, my dear.
But in you still lives the dragon
you should always believe in."- Fierce Fairytales

19/01/2022

This is us.

05/01/2022

The word that has come to me again and again since my birthday in September is Dream. Time to dream, space to dream, confidence to dream, gratitude for dreams come true--the hope of dreams to come.

Sometimes we get so zoomed in, so busy in our daily tasks, so constantly connected that we forget to dream. So my word for this year is to focus on dreaming and see where it takes me.

What big dreams do you have? What word is resonating with you right now?

30/12/2021

There are some moments that stick with us, that change us, that remind us of big magic, that leave a mark. In 2016, I was camped somewhere in Mississippi. The tiny buds of early spring were starting to show, new shoots springing from a bed of pine needles and the air smelling of clay and rain. We were in the early days of our year long trip around the country and it had been a hard, exhausting day. The kind that births doubts and regrets and makes silences fester. As Zach and I sat outside the camper in one of those silences, trying to read in the harsh glow of the camper's outside light, a luna moth slowly began to make circles in the light. I couldn't take my eyes from it. It looked like it was made from starlight, seeming to capture the light from the lamp in its translucent wings. It was magic. The magic of childhood summers and teenage twilights. Big magic in small ways.

Recently I had create a gorgeous tattoo for me of a luna moth with a magnolia flower. Magnolia's stand for perseverance and love of nature but it also reminds me of days spent beneath our magnolia tree with Lucy June, watching her climb and grow. The tattoo is a reminder that life is short and that those beautiful heart changing moments are out there if we just choose to see them.

24/12/2021

However your family does or does not celebrate this time of year I hope it brings some peace. I hope it brings you small joys, rest and refills your heart. Wishing you that and more, from my heart to yours.

16/12/2021

One of the biggest honors I have as a photographer is getting to tell kids' stories as they grow. I've been photographing Moana since she was two and Orion since the first moment he took a breath. I can't fully put into words what that means to me. I can't wait to record their angsty teens, to make them do the same photos as adults they did as kids, to capture them falling in love. This is the magic of photography and one of the many reasons I love doing what I do.

09/12/2021

Feel grateful for being booked during such an unprecedented time! Thank you to all my fall clients who kept me busy and gave me life sharing you and your families with me! Thank you to all my 2021 clients for trusting me to tell your stories. 2022 is already booking up! If you've been putting off a bare session or portraits, 2022 is your year.

02/11/2021

That big brother love

22/10/2021

We didn't really get an opportunity to get a close up of our vests on the but mine in particular holds a lot of meaning for me.

I think there's something powerful in carrying the memory of those who inspire you with you on a hard journey. The eagle pin reminds me of my grandfather who nor only taught me to love the outdoors but to crave wild remote places. This was a man who drove the Alaskan highway in his car and pop up camper before it was paved. The time he spent with me hiking and exploring changed the way I see the world. As an avid athlete, he also valued respect and kindness above winning. I wanted a reminder to make him proud on the rally.

Our "have courage and be kind" patches are a turn on something says to our daughter every morning, "Try your best to be brave and kind today." Not only was it a reminder that that is truly the most important thing but also that she was watching me. That just as my grandfather's love changed my life and world view, mine could change hers as well.
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21/10/2021

Is it weird to miss this view? We were asked what one word summed up the Rebelle Rally for us and at the time I didn't have an answer. Some adventures hit you over the head, some repel you and some you just need to sit with in the quiet for awhile. The last one is the Rebelle for me. I'm still mulling over, holding it in my hands and listening. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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But the word that came to me this morning was resilience. Resilience is not the absence of struggle but instead perseverance through change or difficulty. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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"The ego says, 'I shouldn't have to suffer,' and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it."-Eckhart Tolle⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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There were so many things out of our control on the rally (looking at you weather and my body) but there was nothing to be done about it. The more you thought "this shouldn't be happening!" the more you suffered for it. It was surrendering. It was saying we can do this no matter what is happening. It was winning in the ways that mattered to us. It was perseverance. It was resilience. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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A huge thank you to everyone who believed in us, supported us and made it possible! Thank you for our third teammate Ruby. I don't think I've ever missed a car so much. Thank you to for a beautiful course, challenging event and a special thank you to the medic team for checking on me throughout the rally. Thank you for not only wanting to do this with me in the first place but not hating me afterwards. You were the best teammate I could ask for, from snuggling in a two man tent (or our car) to fielding all the emotions and fatigue. You are a bad-ass woman! Finally thank you to for believing in me so thoroughly through this entire thing and holding down the fort. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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16/09/2021

Annnd she lost the second one! Baby vampire doo do doo.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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31/08/2021

I am yours. And you are mine.

19/08/2021

I've had an attitude problem lately. I'll admit it. There have been a lot of extra things (exciting things!) happening in my life. But somehow all I have felt is overwhelm and stress. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I'm not pro toxic positivity and I definitely think it's out there and keeps us from sharing real hard human experiences. But in this case, the way I was looking at my stress was keeping me from finding joy. It will be this way for awhile and I don't want the fun moments, the peaceful moments, the fu***ng beautiful moments to pass me by. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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So, it won't be perfect, there will still be overwhelmed days, but I'm seeking the joy and it is making a difference.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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What do you do when you're feeling overwhelmed?

17/08/2021

There is something magical that happens with outdoor bo***ir that I can't quite describe. Maybe it's watching a woman come into her power and own it. Maybe it's the light and the way that nature brings us back to ourselves. But it moves me so much, every. single. time.

12/08/2021

"Is it living though, to take the safe road?"-Gwen, A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas.

05/08/2021

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I think one of the things I am most grateful for in my life are not only the every day adventures that fill my heart but a partner who is willing to take them with me. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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20/07/2021

What are you dreaming of today?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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29/06/2021

The last couple months have been a fog. Three months ago I switched day jobs, and after years of being a social media manager for multiple brands, I could not get inspired to post on here anymore. Every time I tried I just--couldn't. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I am absolutely loving my new job but it's also new and has taken a lot of my energy to learn the ropes and get my feet under me. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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But I finally feel like the fog is lifting a bit. I'm starting to dream in images and words again--to notice the little things that inspire me. I'm working through it but if you're a fellow creative and feeling stuck you're not alone. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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How do you work through getting stuck? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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24/06/2021

I've been thinking a lot lately about change--big life changes and small every day changes. It's so easy in our digital world of fitspos and trendy adventures to think that change is as easy as clicking upload to this platform. But it isn't. Anytime I am trying something new or working in a change I hit a point where I want to quit. I question why I wanted to do this to begin with. It is so physically or emotionally hard (or both) that it seems impossible to complete. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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And that's when the change IS happening. You have to want it so bad just because you do--even if you can't see the end result. You have to trust that you'll figure it out. That's when you have to dig deep. It's not pretty, or stylish, or even fun most of the time. But it's worth it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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So whatever change is happening, large or small, you've got this. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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(Shout out to for challenging me to dig deep in this workout! One small step towards bigger changes, a little bit at a time) ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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10/05/2021

Happy birthday to .lucy2019 ! You are such a beautiful person, mother and grandmother. You taught me how find peace in the outdoors, joy in the small moments, love unconditionally and to always be learning and evolving. I admire your passion for people and this world. I love you so much Mom. You are a light.

27/04/2021

You can rewrite your story at anytime. It's never too late to try something that scares you or stop selling yourself short. To me the hardest part is the next step, which is starting something new and being willing to be a beginner. Most new things take practice whether it's writing a book for the first time, traveling somewhere alone or starting a new relationship (even with yourself). Keep practicing, be kind to yourself, do hard things and do them scared.

22/03/2021

Monday.

11/03/2021

I was joking with a friend that I've always been good at manifestation. As a young girl when I dreamed of the man I would marry he always had red hair and green eyes.
For years when I would draw and sketch, I drew a princess with long curly red hair who was fierce. I always wanted to be her. But what if instead of myself, I was merely putting to paper the pattern of her I held in my heart?

10/03/2021

Spring weather has me like....

05/03/2021

She's a work of art.

21/02/2021

Sunday morning workout with my girl and ❤

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Destination Wedding & Lifestyle Photographer, based in the heart of the Smokey Mountains, in Maryville, Tennessee. Capturing love stories all over the globe. Photographer. Storyteller. Yogi. Guac Addict. Bad-ass. Lets chat! http://www.runawayalice.com/contact/