
A Late Summer Engagement on Heintooga Ridge: Alyssa and Sam Above Cherokee
There is a particular kind of light that only shows up in the last two weeks of August in these mountains, when summer hasn’t yet

These are the journals of a woman who learned to see by paying attention.
Here you will find reflections on photography and the philosophy behind it, new writing pulled fresh from the work, and the mountains that have shaped every word and image I have ever made. The Southern Appalachians are not backdrop here. They are bone and breath.
Pixel, my heart dog, will also make appearances. He is blind and fearless and has better instincts than most people I know.
Come in. Stay awhile. The light is good.
Sabrina

There is a particular kind of light that only shows up in the last two weeks of August in these mountains, when summer hasn’t yet

A hand moved across this page and the page held. A docent at the Museum of Haywood County History in Clyde, the house most people

As a family photographer, I want to tell you something I have held close for a long time now. In 2024, I lost my only

The mountains take their time greening up, and this year they got it right on the day it mattered. New leaf, old house, and two

Pastor Dennis Anderson surrenders to the moment on the steps of the Madison County Courthouse, Marshall, North Carolina. National Day of Prayer, May 7, 2026.

This is a story about grief, a river, and a dwarf crested iris in the Great Smoky Mountains. I did not want to be anywhere

You picked the right place. I will say that first. There is a reason people drive from all over the country to get married here.

She did not ask me to take her photograph. She asked me to listen. I found the Fairlane 500 pulled from a mountainside above Waterville

“What in the world is that?!” I said it to nobody but myself. I was alone in my 2010 Ford Ranger, gripping the wheel, leaning

Panther Creek Community Voting House Before the sun came up on primary day, a generator was already humming on Panther Creek Road. The zero tape