I do not drive up from Austin for your session. I live and work here.
That sounds like a small thing until you are standing in a park at 6pm in August, waiting for the light to soften, and your photographer is somewhere on the 35 near Parmer. Being local means I know when the light is right at each place, where to park, and what a space looks like on a Tuesday rather than a Saturday.
Where we shoot in Round Rock
Brushy Creek. The trail, the water, the trees along it. This is where most of my Round Rock portrait work happens. It changes completely between morning and the last hour before sunset, and it is one of the few places nearby that photographs well in every season.
The round rock itself. The low crossing on Brushy Creek that gave the town its name. Not every client wants it in the frame, but for people who grew up here, or who have just moved and are putting down roots, it means something.
Downtown Round Rock. Brick, shade, storefronts, texture. My first choice for brand and personal branding sessions, because it looks like a real place rather than a backdrop. Business owners photograph well here without the images looking staged.
Sonoma Park. Small, quiet, and my personal favourite. There is a kind of session that works better in a small space than a large one, when you want the person and not the landscape.
Big glass and hard light. For automotive and anything graphic, I work with the modern architecture on the north side of town: large surfaces, reflections, and light that is sharp rather than soft. These sessions are planned around permission and time of day, not just location.
And this is a short list. Round Rock has more usable locations than most people who live here realise, and part of my work is matching the place to the person instead of sending everyone to the same field at golden hour.
Working with businesses here
Most of my work here is not a single session. I make monthly photo and video content for a spa and wellness studio in Round Rock, and for a bridal brand in Georgetown. That is the kind of work where the images keep arriving and the business stops running out of things to post.
Alongside that: weddings and courthouse ceremonies, maternity sessions, family portraits, and automotive work on the north side of town.
What I photograph here
Brand and small business content. Ongoing photo and video for businesses in Round Rock and along the north corridor. Not one gallery and goodbye, but a working relationship where the content keeps arriving month after month.
Personal branding. For the person who is the business. Portraits that work on a website, a profile and a pitch deck, not only on social.
Spa, wellness and beauty. Treatment rooms, specialists at work, before and after, short vertical video for Reels and ads.
Portraits, maternity and family. Documentary rather than posed. You will not be told to put your hand on your hip.
Weddings, courthouse ceremonies and couples. Editorial and unhurried.
Automotive and editorial projects. Where the light and the shape of the thing are the subject.
How it works
Sessions here usually run 60 to 90 minutes. I plan the location around what the images are for, not the other way around. If the content is going to a website and a feed, we shoot both formats in the same session rather than cropping later and hoping.
You see a first set of images within a few days. The full gallery follows, and it is yours to download in full resolution.
Serving Round Rock and around it
Round Rock, Georgetown, Cedar Park, Pflugerville, Hutto and Austin. If you are within about thirty minutes of downtown Round Rock, there is no travel fee.