MY STORY
Since I was young, I have had an overwhelming passion for people and places. This passion led me to a lifelong career predominantly in hospitality. I enjoyed every minute in this field, and was able to move into management in the more recent years.
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While in management, I began having some health issues that forced me to take a sick leave and ultimately resign from my position. After some time of recovery and healing I decided to jump head first into my life-long dream of turning my hobby of photography into a career.
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My husband and I took a trip to Jackson Hole, Wyoming where we visited Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone. As you can imagine, this was like throwing gasoline on my fire for photography. Taking pictures of the moose in the Tetons, or the bison in Yellowstone only solidified that for right now I believe I am fulfilling God's purpose in my life through pursuing photography.
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When I got back from this trip, I realized whether it is a beautiful mountain range, a lovely family, an action-filled sport, or whatever it may be- I wanted to take a picture. ​
I married my husband, Jake, in June of 2023. Jake continues year after year to make all of my dreams come true. It is because of Jake that I even had the courage to try pursuing photography. Jake and I have an English bulldog named Hank and a chocolate lab named Remi. If you were to take the 13,050 pictures in my camera roll and delete the pictures that had one of the three of them in it- there would be about 3 and a half pictures left. :-)
The biggest thing I enjoy about photography is that I can combine my love for people and the outdoors. I now know the more I learn the more I don't know. I would compare photography to the golf of sports or the fly fishing of angling.
My ultimate goal is to take the most authentic to reality picture that is possible. To photograph a fleeting point in time with a picture that captures the dynamic & intense nature of the moment would be a success to me. With an extremely fleeting memory, I realize that...
the picture will last longer.
