I was a few months old the first time I spent a summer on Crystal Lake in Frankfort, Michigan. My family returns every summer and not much has changed over the years (in the best way). There’s something special about returning somewhere that doesn’t change and you are able to observe your own growth since your last visit.

I wanted to challenge myself this cherry blossom season to capture the blooms up close with my macro lens. I documented the 6 stages of the blooms here in Washington, DC around the Tidal Basin and Washington Monument.

My good friend Natalie (read: best friends since we were two years old), Partner and Director of Horticulture at Love and Carrots, asked me to capture their installation of the rooftop garden at one of DC’s newest boutique hotel Eaton. The produce grown on the hotel’s rooftop will be prepared and served fresh in dishes at American Son, the modern-day American cuisine restaurant in the lobby of Eaton. This is urban farming at it’s finest in our city.

Some of my favorite photographs from a recent creative collaboration with Taylor. This shoot was made even sweeter by the fact that the baker is my sister. She did the baking while I did the styling and capturing. Food photography is proving to be another outlet for my creativity that brings a whole new world of textures, colors, and compositions.

A fresh blanket of snow over the city always makes for a great canvas for photos. Temperatures have been below freezing all week so I doubled up on socks and warm layers before heading out to take some photos with my friend Angela at the US Capitol.

It’s a rare occurrence. Watching the sunrise from the Lincoln Memorial and looking up to see that you have the place to yourself. Those magical couple seconds when it’s just you and Abe.

The moon rising behind the MLK Memorial and the corner of his eye caught my eye as I walked back to my car.

The soon-to-be blood moon rises over the US Capitol building on Sunday evening.