I'm a tattooed Mama, wife to my best friend, lover of Jesus, hopeless romantic, irregular gym rat, crumble cookie addict, house plant killer, margarita lover, occasional potty mouth, and deeply human. Getting to know you and your story is so important to me, so with that being said, here's a little bit of mine.
I first picked up a camera after the birth of our firstborn, with the desire to preserve those nostalgic and quickly fading moments of raising babies. My babies are the reason photographs mean anything to me, the reason anything really means anything. Time is a thief and it forever pushes forward, changing and ageing everyone and everything around us. This journey started by preserving my own legacy, and I feel honored that a piece of my heart and my legacy will be left with you.
Our story is kinda cliche. The best friends that fall in love. We found each other, unintentionally and from the moment we met, we just knew each other. I think I’ve always known him and will continue to be born to love him, in all the easy and hard ways, for every life I live. He was my best friend and 13 years later he still is. We built our love on friendship, supporting, and loving each other through the twist and turns of life. We know what it’s like to cry, to hurt, to fall and to struggle but to always rise again stronger than ever. We love hard and even on our hardest days we live by the motto, "Who's got it better than us? Nobody!"
I have learned that life is beautifully complicated but you can get through anything with love and grace and most importantly your tribe. I believe your photographs should be a reflection of the unique way you fall together with the ones you call home. Documenting the very raw and real love is what I'm here for.
Let’s be real, my only goal going into a wedding or any session for that matter is connection. I want to connect with the incredible humans and beautiful story standing before me and their love for each other. I’m not interested in photographing some posed, unrealistic version of you. I’m here to document the real stuff. The best photographs to me is a door that spills you out into a day with naked babies pattering of feet on the floor. The moment your baby was hurling her first cry into the waiting air. It holds the space for that last time you were together and the final words you heard leave their lips. They conjure up the scent of your lovers kiss, the texture of skin your hands can no longer hold in this reality anymore.