My Story:

My passion for photography began at a young age with my Dad using various film, digital, and video cameras to document my childhood. As I grew older I became my Dad's little assistant; I would learn how to use his film camera to take landscapes or assist in an impromptu portrait session of my younger brother. I remember bugging my dad to buy me a disposable camera or Polaroid so I could experiment outside taking photos.

High school graduation was when I received my first "big girl" camera and I began traveling and taking landscape photos. You'd be surprised to hear that initially I was never interested in taking photos of people. The idea of having to direct poses while figuring out how to make your creative vision come to life seemed so daunting. All of that changed when one of my best friends Korrina was getting married and needed a photographer.

Korrina loved my work as a landscape artist and asked me to photograph her wedding and I'll be honest; my initial response was "oh heck no!" After some convincing I decided to believe in myself but knew it would require a lot of practice beforehand. Months before her wedding I asked just about everyone I knew to do a free session with me so I could practice how I would pose and direct my clients. The adrenaline rush, excitement, and emotion of Korrina's wedding day convinced me that I wanted to learn more about portrait photography than what I initially set out to do so I jumped in and went for it!