It is my aim to document your stages of life with the same attention to detail and with the same tender affection as I do with my own family.
I'm a lifestyle photographer based in North Georgia with a passion for families. If you're newly engaged, expecting a new addition, or soaking up marital bliss and you want more than your traditional portraits to highlight and preserve your story then I'm you're girl.
As a mom, a wife, and a hopeless romantic I believe every moment is important. The admiration of tiny fingers and toes, the comforting embrace between parent and child, the blissful exchanges shared amongst newlyweds - all of these instances and more add to the layer and depth of your story. They show the authenticity of it. The realness of your life and who you share it with.
I'm a self taught photographer who didn't grow up thinking I would be a photographer. I enjoyed taking pictures for myself to remember the places I visited, the people I spent time with, and as a creative expression that was my own to explore and improve on. My work mainly focused on landscapes and still life - taking photographs of strangers didn't cross my mind let alone in a scenario where they would see the images. But as this introvert began to see the beauty in the human connection and that I could step out of my comfort area more easily if it was in service of others.
Stepping into the role of Photographer took me much longer than I feel like it should have as I look back at my career pathway now. But the journey helped show me the importance in the mundane and the mess. There is beauty in the traditional and the posed, but it's only what we get at face-value. It isn't the whole truth in our story, in our relationships, or in our legacies. And that's what I offer you - the tenderness, the joy, the thrill, the bittersweet, the simplicity, and the authenticity of your story captured and presented in photographs you'll love now and your family will cherish later.
“Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.”
Hear me when I say, I'm not a cookie-cutter photographer. I want to take beautiful photographs of your family, of course, but I want to highlight the beauty and authenticity of you and your loved ones. I don't want to put you in a box and copy and paste you into the frame. I want what makes your family shine to set you apart from the other families I've worked with.
As it should. Because, otherwise, what's the point? I don't want - and you don't want - your pictures to be the same as what you've simply seen before. You want to experience and remember what and how the photo makes you feel. You want that for your family, here and now, with pictures that fill your heart and summarizes this chapter. I know that's your heart because that's also mine.
And to begin sharing my heart, here's a little about me: I believe in quality over quantity, slowing down in this fast pace world, drinking strong and creamy coffee, baking homemade bread, building magna tile creations with my son, sipping red wine on date nights with my husband, the feel of the sun on my skin no matter the season, driving across the country versus flying, wearing my cowboy boots at the barn and to church (after a good cleaning, of course), reading stories at bedtime, and it's my greatest desire to follow after Jesus Christ and love others well.
