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ELLIE MAE PHOTO

Do you feel like there's a shift in how you go about posting on Instagram? Your feed used to be carefully curated and now it's a beautiful mess. Filled with real moments and genuine laughter, blurry photos that hold a special place in your heart because you and your best friend are laughing hysterically. What used to be a place for heavily edited images is now a place that feels authentically you. Less edits, less trying to be something you're not and more pictures of you. Showing up as you are and damn proud of it.

The wedding industry has definitely mirrored that shift. More couples are looking to document their day as it naturally unfolds. Candid photography and documentary photography are getting thrown around constantly but what does it all mean? In my opinion, candid and documentary photography go hand in hand. They prioritize documenting life as it naturally unfolds, getting the messy and fleeting moments that often go unnoticed as time seems to flying by before our eyes. And no other day flies by more quickly than your wedding day. So to be able to be present and soak in the day as much as you can is paramount.

+ My lil pup, Pebbie and my amazing hubby
+ Spending time with my mom and dad
+ Book club with my cousins. Colleen Hoover is the GOAT
+ Margaritas and popcorn
+ Harry Potter
+ Quality time spent with my husband
+ Game nights, a staple in the Johnson household
+ DIYing furniture for our home
+ Anything sweet is my kryptonite

These are a few of my favorite things

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I've always loved love. As a little girl, I would watch the movies and felt enamored with grand gestures. When the prince saved the princess, when they lived happily ever after and rode the horse off into the sunset. Then I got older. HA. No, but seriously. As I got older, my idea of love and it's existence in the world evolved. The one thing I believe everyone has in common in the whole world, is the desire to be loved. The desire to have someone fully see you for who you are and still choose you. No, love is not what I read in the books or saw in the movies as a little girl. It's not happily ever after. It's actually better than that. My biggest example of this and my greatest inspiration in my photography is my husband.

Love is chaos. It's the truest reflection of who you are at your core. Love is sacrifice. Compromise. It can be complicated at times while simultaneously  bringing you immense joy. It's choose to stay when it would be easier to leave. It is the core of fulfillment in our lives. 

Love is chaos. It's the truest reflection of who you are at your core. Love is sacrifice. Compromise. It can be complicated at times while simultaneously  bringing you immense joy. It's 

choose to stay when it would be easier to leave. It is the core of fulfillment in our lives. 

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Love is sleeping in on a Sunday and cuddling.
It's making a cup of coffee together.
It's seeing my husband's hair in the sink after shaving and cleaning it even though I've told him 10 times to make sure he leaves the sink clean.
Love is dreaming of our life goals together.
It's walks around the neighborhood.
Love is asking each other countless times "What movie do you wanna watch" only to settle on trash tv once again. 
To love and to be loved... It's the biggest adventure.

The older I get, the more aware I am of moments and how fleeting they are. I'm aware of time and how little we have of it in the grand scheme of things. Because of this, I see the importance of preserving memories. My mom is the reason I'm a photographer. There wasn't a moment in my childhood that wasn't documented. And even now, I'll find random photographs around the house of her and my dad doing life together - something as simple as an old photograph of them eating at their favorite restaurant years ago brings me tears, happy tears. We have such a strong connection to photographs of the people we love.

That's what I strive to give to my couples. Photographs of the fleeting moments spent with the ones they love. Photographs that are equally artistic as they are emotive. Photographs that they will look back on years from now and think "what a wonderful life I lived"