I have been so lucky to have the privilege of photographing the Dawes’ over the course of 12 years. The summer I got my first DSLR in 2011 (a Canon Rebel T2i), Kindra and Jordan entrusted me in taking their engagement photographs alongside my cousin, who is also a photographer. I also took some winter engagement photographs a few months later.

Since then, I have photographed so many stages of their lives—their first pregnancy, their daughter’s six-month photographs and then her one-year photographs, and two sets of family photographs as their two kids have grown up. I most recently took some photographs of their family in Fort Wayne during autumn.

As their family has grown, I have also grown as a photographer, and it has been an honor to be asked to document their various stages of life. I look forward to continuing to photograph this wonderful family in future years <3