Hey guys, I’m Patrick, and I’m originally from Pennsylvania. I moved from Virginia to Raleigh in 2015, and married Christen the following April.  My favorite moment from our wedding day was our first moment alone after we walked up the aisle. That’s really when it sunk in.

When I’m not photographing, you can find me drinking coffee (the darker the better), binge-watching sci-fi, and working out at the gym.

I would rather stay up late than get up early, eat food essential for survival (meat and potatoes, it is), and have this ability to make myself comfortable in any situation I’m in.

I love to get dressed up for a nice dinner, but am also perfectly content to stay in all weekend. My favorite thing about photography are the people we get to know, and how we get to carry out their stories through photography.

Moments are either remembered or forgotten. I don’t remember taking my first steps or sitting on my late great-grandmother’s lap when I was 2. It’s so humbling to rely on the memories and stories of others to fill in the memory gaps of a person who loved me and my family so dearly. I’ve come to find that as moments leave us, even this moment that I’m writing to you, that photos and videos are two ways to demand that moment stay with us forever.  I remember the way my great-grandmother sounded from video, but I remember how much she cared for me when I look at images of her. Photographs are our way of saying, that the moment we’re capturing is too sacred to forget. It is making the choice to recall and reflect on the emotion, story, and memories that make up that individual image.