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Matt and Jessica are truly the sweetest couple and I am so blessed that they picked me to be their wedding photographer! They are one of those couples who bring out the best in each other, and you can feel the love they share. We decided to start off their engagement session at the American Tobacco Campus in downtown Durham. I love when my clients pick the location – it really just says so much about them!

It was a very windy day, and although wind can be hard to work with, Matt and Jessica didn’t let it phase them. :-)

They are such a fun-loving couple, and it shows!

American playwright, August Wilson, once said, “All you need in the world is love and laughter. That’s all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.”

I happen to think he was right.

Even though it was not a particularly cold day, I thought the blanket was an ingenius idea after we had to twice reschedule the session because of rain and snow!

We got a few individual shots as well. Jessica looks gorgeous here – and I was surprised to learn that Matt is a musician as well! (In fact, his band performed at the wedding!)

We managed to sneak in a couple of shots with the couple’s greyhound, Mitchell.

Thank you for being so fabulous and making this session so much fun you guys!

I won’t lie – I was downright pleased when temperatures started to rise and the first flowers finally revealed themselves this spring. This past winter was the hardest I’d experienced in North Carolina – I hadn’t seen that much snow since I moved down here from Maine in 2002.

We have some beautiful purple flowers growing over the fence in our backyard. I won’t pretend to know a lot about flowers in general, but I believe this a wisteria vine. They have a beautiful lingering scent that saturated our yard in fragrance.

I took the image above, as well as the one below, several days ago just before sunset.

The image below was taken this morning, and I was saddened to see that most of the blossoms have now gone by.

I love the way the light touches the leaves and petals here. Although I’m typically not a “flower photographer” I really had fun capturing these images.

Spring is finally here, with summer just around the corner! What can I say? I am ready!