Pablo found me the way a lot of my people do : deep in research mode, somewhere between intention and instinct. As an SEO engineer based out of California, he had combed through photographers in the Austin area before landing on my work through Yelp. By the time we sat down for our video consultation, he already had a vision forming - something layered, something meaningful, something that didn’t just document a proposal, but mapped it. A full timeline. A story you could walk back through frame by frame. & at the center of it all was Katie, completely unaware that her entire world was about to shift.

PABLO
+ KATIE

APRIL 8, 2024

THE PLAN

They were planning their trip around the Texas Eclipse Festival, a multi-day experience built around the rare total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. Set against the sweeping landscape of Reveille Peak Ranch, the festival stretched across more than a thousand acres of Texas Hill Country : wooded trails, lakes, open sky, the kind of place where everything feels just a little more alive. Over five days, tens of thousands of people, more than 50,000 attendees gathered from all over the world drawn by equal parts music, art, and the once-in-a-lifetime pull of cosmic alignment.

And the lineup? Stacked in that immersive, genre-bending way that feels less like a concert and more like stepping into a different dimension. Artists like The String Cheese Incident, Charlotte de Witte, Monty, Big Gigantic, CloZee, Paul Oakenfold, and Skream brought massive energy, while acts like Tipper, Vulfpeck, Zeds Dead, Bob Moses, Tycho, and The Disco Biscuits added that layered, almost psychedelic rhythm to the experience. This wasn’t just a festival - it was a convergence in music, nature, science, & something a little harder to name. The kind of setting where time already feels suspended which made it the perfect place for Pablo to choose the exact moment he would ask Katie to spend the rest of her life with him.

THE TICKETS. THE COSTUMES. THE RING. THE FESTIVAL. THE MUSIC.

Communication, as it turns out, had its own plans. Between limited cell reception, nearly nonexistent WiFi at the campgrounds, and a crowd far exceeding what anyone anticipated, coordinating anything became a moving target. Messages lagged, calls dropped, and timelines blurred into the chaos of a festival that was quickly beginning to feel . . . unstable. What was meant to be a five-day experience started unraveling in real time - overcrowding pushed capacity limits, medical resources stretched thin, the Texas heat pressed hard, and incoming storms threatened flash flooding across the ranch. Eventually, the call was made : the festival would shut down two full days early.

Fate smiled upon us and in the middle of all of that chaos and disorganization, we found each other. Right as everything was beginning to close in, right as people started to realize this experience was ending far sooner than expected, we managed to connect and anchor into a plan. We set a meeting place to watch the eclipse together. Katie, completely unaware of what was coming, believed the story Pablo had carefully crafted. We had simply “met in passing,” two strangers in line, and that I was just a photographer he’d asked to grab a few cute couple’s photos during the eclipse.

The sky started to change. We stood there together as the light dimmed, as the temperature dropped, as the world softened into something almost unrecognizable. That eerie, breathtaking stillness that only a total eclipse can bring settled over all of us and we cried. Big tears. Not quietly, not politely, just fully, openly moved by what we were witnessing. In that suspended moment, secluded in a quiet spot of hill country landscape – yet in reality, surrounded by thousands of strangers who somehow felt connected, we pulled into a massive group hug with their PLUR family - friends turned chosen family under a darkened sky. When the sun returned, so did everything else.

"SOME SONGS ARE MADE TO SHAKE YOUR BODY & SOME TO TOUCH YOUR SOUL." - SURI SINGH

SHE SAID YES

The light came back in, golden and overwhelming, and just as the world started to breathe again, Pablo turned to Katie and said he had something he needed to tell her. He gently pulled her aside, grounding her in the moment as everything else buzzed around them. He spoke about her about how much she meant to him, how the last few years had completely shifted his world, how grateful he was to be standing there with her in a moment that would never exist again in quite the same way. Right as her eyes began to fill, Pablo dropped to one knee.

Katie froze, completely stunned. The kind of shock that delays reality just long enough for it to feel surreal. Her “yes” didn’t come right away, not because it wasn’t there, but because she was so overwhelmed, so ecstatic, so in it that her body needed a second to catch up. And then laughter burbled to the surface, squealing in disbelief, joy spilling out all at once as she finally said YES!

We stood there in the sunlight, holding onto those first few moments of newly engaged, still buzzing from the eclipse, still wrapped in the intensity of everything that had just happened before the mass exodus began. Cars lining up, people packing out, the festival dissolving behind us. It was chaotic. It was unpredictable. It was cut short. & somehow, it was the most perfect ending to the most picture-perfect beginning. Anchored.

"WHEN I AM WITH YOU, I FEEL ALIVE." - "TEARING ME UP" BY BOB MOSES

What you create deserves more than documentation. It deserves translation into something people can feel. The intention behind your brand, your company, your creation, your idea - is born in its earliest moment, in that first spark of something you knew needed to exist, long before the sale is ever on the table. Every brand begins this way, taking shape quietly, rooted in meaning before it ever meets a customer.

MATT +
KIRSTEN

STORYTELLING SESSIONS

With Anna’s fitness training and whole-body wellness shift, care isn’t rushed or prescribed. Each workout meetup, private session, online fitness adventure, workout move of the day, and joint empowerment retreat carries a kind of softness that meets you exactly where you are, blending intentional movement, emotional presence, intuitive nutrition, and centered healing energy in a way that feels both grounding and expansive. It’s the kind of work that doesn’t demand transformation but gently invites it, allowing your system to settle, recalibrate, and unfold in its own time.

But what makes her work hit the way it does, the reason it feels so honest - is because it was never built from theory alone. It was built from experience. From pain. From having to learn, firsthand, what it means to live in a body that doesn’t always cooperate. Anna’s journey with Endometriosis didn’t just shape her path, it redefined it. Navigating chronic pain, limitations, and the emotional weight that comes with it forced a kind of recalibration that most traditional wellness spaces don’t account for. And instead of forcing her body to meet existing systems and pushing the “no excuses” mentality, she began creating something new : something that listened back. What emerged was a different kind of fitness. One that isn’t rooted in punishment or performance, but in communication. In attunement. In learning the language of the body instead of overriding it. A practice that honors cycles, capacity, and the ever-changing nature of what strength can look like on any given day.

"SOME SONGS ARE MADE TO SHAKE YOUR BODY & SOME TO TOUCH YOUR SOUL." - SURI SINGH

From where I stand behind the lens, I’ve had the rare privilege of witnessing that evolution in real time. Photographing Anna and her career, her baby company as it’s grown, was about capturing poses or polished moments. It’s about documenting a body in conversation with itself. A business growing from lived truth. A woman building something that didn’t exist for her, and offering it to others anyway. There’s a quiet power in that - a power you can’t manufacture that is only recognizable when it’s real.

You can feel that in the work whether one on one or in a group : in the way sessions unfold & in the permission that’s built into every interaction. This isn’t about pushing through anything. Working with Anna is about coming back. It’s about getting out of your head and back into your body while taking the space to feel your feelings and honor them. It’s about building strength that feels less like work and more like play; it’s about sitting with your inner child and giving them permission to grow and explore instead of making sure you hit every rep and feel those gains. It’s about finding gains in the moments others would miss like the serene peace you feel on a trail in the snow, watching magic unfold all around you. She concentrates on blending nature and breath-work, grounding and body cycles, and bringing you back to movement that feels good.

At its core, Wellness with Anna Gentile is about re-connection, bridging the gap between where you’ve been and where your body is ready to go next. It’s an offering shaped by lived experience, designed with care, and held with a kind of presence that lingers long after you’ve left the room. Contact Anna if you’re ready for a softened edge, a steadier breath, and a sense that something within you has gently come back online.

BLAH BLAH BLAH ABOUT MATT + KIRSTEN

From where I stand behind the lens, I’ve had the rare privilege of witnessing that evolution in real time. Photographing Anna and her career, her baby company as it’s grown, was about capturing poses or polished moments. It’s about documenting a body in conversation with itself. A business growing from lived truth. A woman building something that didn’t exist for her, and offering it to others anyway. There’s a quiet power in that - a power you can’t manufacture that is only recognizable when it’s real.

You can feel that in the work whether one on one or in a group : in the way sessions unfold & in the permission that’s built into every interaction. This isn’t about pushing through anything. Working with Anna is about coming back. It’s about getting out of your head and back into your body while taking the space to feel your feelings and honor them. It’s about building strength that feels less like work and more like play; it’s about sitting with your inner child and giving them permission to grow and explore instead of making sure you hit every rep and feel those gains. It’s about finding gains in the moments others would miss like the serene peace you feel on a trail in the snow, watching magic unfold all around you. She concentrates on blending nature and breath-work, grounding and body cycles, and bringing you back to movement that feels good.

At its core, Wellness with Anna Gentile is about re-connection, bridging the gap between where you’ve been and where your body is ready to go next. It’s an offering shaped by lived experience, designed with care, and held with a kind of presence that lingers long after you’ve left the room. Contact Anna if you’re ready for a softened edge, a steadier breath, and a sense that something within you has gently come back online.

BLAH BLAH BLAH ABOUT MATT + KIRSTEN

Wellness with Anna Gentile isn’t your stereotypical fitness community. Anna is not some self-absorbed muscle mommy guru. She’s a professional in the fine art of staying alive. Her philosophy is that wellness is not just a practice and it should not be treated like a job. It’s a promise you make to yourself tucked into the rhythm of everyday life; it’s every heartbeat, every alarm you set as a reminder to eat, your choice to drink water over a can of sugary fluid, your hot girl walk between home and work and the headspace you create for yourself. It’s dance parties and mini celebrations even if you just got out of bed today

WITH ANNA GENTILE

WELLNESS

Wellness with Anna Gentile is a gem showcasing the charm of Montreal’s vastly changing healthcare initiative by everyday people due to a lack of feeling seen by the private eye of socialized healthcare. Rooted in a deeply intuitive approach to healing, Anna Gentile has created a space where wellness feels less like a routine and more like a remembering - romanticizing breath, body, & balance.

What you create deserves more than documentation. It deserves translation into something people can feel. The intention behind your brand, your company, your creation, your idea - is born in its earliest moment, in that first spark of something you knew needed to exist, long before the sale is ever on the table. Every brand begins this way, taking shape quietly, rooted in meaning before it ever meets a customer.

BRAND

STORYTELLING SESSIONS