About Us

We are a husband and wife photography team with over eleven years of experience shooting weddings together. Our “style” is a perfect mixture of fine art, documentary and traditional imagery. We create photographs that are a perfect reflection of you and your wedding day. We work from Virginia Beach to DC and all points in between especially Williamsburg, Newport News, and Yorktown.

We try to remain relatively unobtrusive throughout the day while still providing you with incredible images that you will be thrilled to call your own. We believe in reasonable all inclusive pricing so each bride and groom have an album and enlargements of their choice to cherish. We stay in communication with you before during and after the big day so that we understand and document all the special details of your day.

We love what we do and it shows in our photographs! We feel privileged to document the moments in your life that make lasting memories.

Family Portraits, a timeless investment: Our goal to to capture the essence of your family. We believe portraits should be in a comfortable setting of your choice at a time that is best for you! We have no limitations on time, we take as long as it takes to get great pictures! We have no limitations on numbers of family members, one child or five, same price! We work until we are comfortable that we have perfect images!

Carol Hayes holds a BS in Biology and Studio Art from Mary Washington College and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 1999, the Winter Park Art Festival selected her as one of three top Emerging Artists in the Southeast. In 2002, Carol was awarded a United Arts Council Regional Artist Project Grant. Carol has had solo exhibitions in Raleigh, NC and Charlotte, SC and has exhibited and won awards in many group exhibitions locally, regionally and nationally. These awards include honorable mentions in the North Carolina Photographers Annual in 2003 and 2005, second place and honorable mention in The Gallery on the York “Miniature Show” in 2005 and 2006. She won second place for best body of work in The Gallery on the York Aperture Show” in 2006 and honorable mention in 2007. In 2006, her photographs won second place in the Visual Art Exchange “New Show,” a national juried exhibition. Her work was most recently featured in the Christopher Newport University Faculty Show and at the Charles Taylor Arts Center in Hampton, Virginia. Carol Hayes taught for 8 years at Meredith College in Raleigh NC and received tenure in 2007.