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Welcome to the HLPHOTO Blog! I'm Heather Gillelan, and I am a wedding photographer based in Powhatan, Virginia. I hope you grab some coffee (or an energy drink!) and enjoy checking out my latest work, and getting a little peek into the organized chaos that is my life!

Welcome to the HLPHOTO Blog! I'm Heather Gillelan, and I am a wedding photographer based in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I hope you grab some coffee (or an energy drink!) and enjoy checking out my latest work, and getting a little peek into the organized chaos that is my life!

I got the pleasure of meeting Lauren + Stephen for their maternity session yesterday, and I’ve been looking forward to this since she first sent me her inspiration. She mentioned them having a creek on their property, and wanting to get in it and I was ALLLLL about it. We ended up having to reschedule […]

Sierra + Joey got married fall of 2019, and I was just beside myself with excitement when she told me their exciting news this past fall & I was equally as excited to get to capture this time in their lives! To say they will be amazing parents is definitely an understatement, because this girl […]

Spring has sprung here in VA! I got to meet up with Catherine + Matt yesterday for their engagement portraits, and they absolutely ROCKED IT! It was definitely a bit chilly (good ol va weather!) but that didn’t stop us & I am so glad! Seriously though, CHECK OUT the flowering trees! These two are […]