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not to go all mister rogers on you, but i like you just the way you are.
this was after their impromptu first look and on their way to walk down the aisle. posting on valentine’s day because look at that heart they’re making! 🥰😝 hope you all feel loved today, because you are. 💥⚡️🌈🖤
“White America must see, that no other ethnic group has been a slave on American soil. That is one thing that other immigrant groups haven’t had to face. The other thing is that the color became a stigma. American society made the Negroes color a stigma. America freed the slaves in 1863, through the Emancipation Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln, but gave the slaves no land, and nothing in reality, as a matter of fact, to get started on. At the same time, America was giving away, millions of acres of land in the west and the Midwest. Which meant that there was a willingness to give the white peasants from Europe an economic base, and yet it refused to give its black peasants from Africa, who came here involuntarily in chains and had worked free for two hundred and forty-four years, any kind of economic base. And so emancipation for the Negro was really freedom to hunger. It was freedom to the winds and rains of Heaven. It was freedom without food to eat or land to cultivate and therefore was freedom and famine at the same time. And when white Americans tell the Negro to “lift himself by his own bootstraps”, they don’t look over the legacy of slavery and segregation. I believe we ought to do all we can and seek to lift ourselves by our own boot straps, but it’s a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. And many Negroes by the thousands and millions have been left bootless as a result of all of these years of oppression and as a result of a society that deliberately made his color a stigma and something worthless and degrading.” - Dr. King
the wedding the bride lovingly described as “borderline janky” was all about relationships and our shared human experience. this is the bride who set up an ant hospital to save dying ants as a little girl and who now saves human lives along with her husband. their wedding story is up on the site now go go go
"Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that, but you are the only you." — Neil Gaiman
people pay me to creep on them. 💁🏻‍♀️
location scouting is the worst part of being a photographer. (can i get an amen, fellow photogs??) in-home shoots are so much more personal, meaningful, intimate, comfortable, i could go on. all i need are four walls and a window and we’re in business. any other homebodies out there? 🙌🏽🙌🏽 #letsstayhome
weekends are for posting personal, grainy film photos that were taken at an unknown time and in an unknown location. get on it.
instantly teared up upon seeing this tiny babe. as per usual.
when a photo needs to be made, and you don’t have anyone to photograph, become your own model and make someone else take the photo. the photo NEEDED TO BE MADE, YOU GUYS. shout out @justinsorenson for following my instructions to perfection. we make a good team.

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