2025- A Year in Review

As Seen In: 

The New York Times // The LA Times //Junebug Best of the Best Destination Photos Runner up // International Wedding Photo of the Year Finalist: Epic Location!  // International Wedding Photographer of the Year Finalist: Non-Wedding Category //  Love on Earth Workshop Instructor 

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Previous Year In Reviews

2024 Year in Review // 2023 Year in Review // 2022 Year in Review // 2021 Year in Review  // 2020 Year in Review // 2019 Year in Review

Hi, friends. 🙂 It’s time for my favorite blog post of the year. I remember even before I was a photographer really loving looking through these kinds of posts, and now being on the other side of things I love it just as much. It is also, in many ways, the most difficult blog for me every year. Why?

Well, fun fact about me: I REALLY struggle with picking favorites. Like, in any capacity; favorite food? I can provide you a list. Favorite movie? Yeah right. This year (and every year lol) I sat down and hoped that maybe, *maybe* it would be less difficult? Then I looked at the number of photos I took in the last year ::sweats:: and that hope went out the window. I knew tackling the endeavor of picking my favorite images for my 2025 year in review…would be… a task. 

And lo! It was. Buckle in for what is actually my longest post of all time. Picking images is always tough- not in a humble brag way, but I just love every elopement and find so many photos I want to showcase in this collection.

This year I set the intention this year of picking images that I feel really encapsulate the experience of what it’s like to elope with me tagging along. Because that’s what I’m always saying- the experience is the MOST important thing. More than any one photo, or epic location, or rad activity. I care about how your day freaking feels. So I wanted this collection to feel… like that. Big, epic, small, funny, exciting, awe inspiring, silly, courageous, comfortable… all the things. That’s what I wanted to focus on for the images, so that’s how I picked this year’s set. Looking through, I feel pretty proud and pretty grateful.

As for thinking about this past year outside just the photos…. well. I sit writing this in the waning hours of 2025, thinking back on the previous year, deciding what to say. As always, I feel immense gratitude for this job and the couples I am so lucky to work with. This job is a constant source of joy, light, love, and reminder for many of the things I care for not just as a photographer, but as a human walking through this world.

And this year, it feels as though this world has been especially tough for so many, including myself. To make a post about 2025 without talking about this, would feel hollow. Joy, light, love- all feel extremely precious right now. It was a year where many of the things I hold most dear- love, our public wild spaces, autonomy, freedom, art- under various forms of attack, and that has been a difficult thing to weather and balance.

And here we are, knocking on the door of 2026, it’s super clear that 2026 will be still full of its own difficulties and struggles. The problems that were exposed in our world are still very much there and just because the dates on the calendar change doesn’t mean that those problems don’t magically vanish.

That is all true. But even still, the promise of a new year, a fresh start, a blank slate, is kind of thrilling. And if you think about it, that’s a little bit of what a wedding is. A fresh start. A new adventure.  This is where all this abundant gratitude comes in. The pain and strife of 2025 didn’t make these elopement days dimmer, if anything it made them brighter. More special. More amazing. Somehow more rad as hell. I was and am in awe of all these couples. I’m so damn lucky to call this my job.

So here is my year in review.