A Southern Baby - Tyler Grace

A few of my personal favorites from a photo session today

 with 4-month Tyler Grace and Mommy.

Southern Doors - Charleston, South Carolina

"God enters by a private door into every individual."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Southern Morning - Jasmine Hill Gardens

"Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away.  

We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only thing

 that we can focus on.  What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, 

every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them."   (Matthias)

A Southern Wedding - Katie & Shawn

I had the pleasure of assisting a friend photograph a beautiful lakeside wedding this afternoon and want to share just a few of the images.   Thank you Diana for letting me be a part of Katie and Shawn's  special day. . .

May your joys be as bright as the morning, your years of happiness as numerous as the stars in the heavens, 
and your troubles but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love. 
  (Old English Blessing)

A Southern Lighthouse - Pensacola, Florida

A Southern Spring... at Last!

"If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring 

and stay that way later in the fall."

-- Nadine Stair

A Southern Coastal Dune Lake

A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature.  

It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.   

(Henry David Thoreau)

COASTAL DUNE LAKES

I took these photos this past week along Scenic Hwy 30-A in South Walton County.  Coastal dune lakes are found in only a few places in the world.... New Zealand, Australia, Madagascar, and Florida's Northwest Gulf Coast.   There are 11 of these coastal dune lakes along 30-A; and Western Lake at Grayton Beach, Florida, is one of the largest.  The first two photos show the iconic view that greets everyone as they are driving into the Watercolor/Seaside communities.   The beautiful white sand beaches of the Gulf are just over the dunes you see in the distance in this first photo.  For more info about South Walton's coastal dune lakes, GO HERE.

I took these last few pictures this morning just after sunrise.   It was a beautiful, slightly foggy morning.