When Troyce Smith was younger, she worked as a model, and like Michael Jordan, she learned what it took to make a beautiful shot. Now, years later, it’s her taking the photos, using the lessons she has gleaned over the decades to create beautiful pictures that immortalize treasured moments. Specializing in natural-light photography, Smith works together with her clients, asking, as she says on her website, "what story would you like to tell?" Zeroing in on each of her subject’s needs, she constructs photos that capture tender moments with newborns, loving looks between fiancés, and the cloaked resentment of family members who really wanted a statue made of them.