SOME THINGS I LOVE:
DIY | Backyard | Theme weddings, environmental portraits, mail art, grandmas, Tom Waits

TIMELINE:
1984: I took my first picture using my parents  Polaroid. The picture was of my grandmother.  You could tell from the lighting and composition that I was a child prodigy.

1987: I took a visually stunning shot of (part of) my grandmother (again), along with her laundry. The comparisons to great photographers such as Annie Leibovitz and Arnold Newman began.

1988-1997: I spent my childhood and early teen years as a socially awkward girl who was always behind her camera.

1998: I started taking classes at Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute. I  was able to study photography with Keith Sandman, who was apparently impressed with my laundry and grandmother photos.

2000: I began spending a lot of money that my parents didn’t have at the Hallmark Institute of Photography. I spent 16+ hours a day learning everything known to humans about how to take truly outstanding photos of grandmothers, laundry and everything in between.

2002-2008: I traveled. I took chances. I took millions of photographs and made not one cent for doing so. Had my first baby, and fell in love.

2008: I married the raddest person I’ve ever met and I was asked to shoot my first wedding. And the rest, as they say, is history. Well, sort of…

2009-2014: Shot all the weddings, became a celebrity meet and greet photographer, was published for the first time, had my second baby, and started homeschooling my kids.

2015-2020: Continued photographing weddings. Started shooting film again. My husband built me a darkroom. Began working with artists and spaces. Had my first magazine publication, and heartbreakingly had to say goodbye to my grandma and her laundry.

2020-current: Survived uterine cancer. Photographed HOME 2020. Started shooting primarily tiny private weddings. Lost my dad, dove headfirst into fine art photography and into my darkroom to find healing and peace.

I began working vendor events and selling my photography under a tent meeting lots of different makers and finding my niche audience.  My babies are now teenagers and are some of the coolest people I know. I spend my days creating art, listing to audio books, homeschooling, and legitimately living the dream with my husband.

FYI – if you have a uterus, and an inkling of something request a biopsy. It is the only way to discover uterine cancer.