08/19/2026
📸 Happy International Photography Day
For me, it started long before I ever thought to call myself a photographer.
Before the business. Before the studio. Before I knew anything about lighting or lenses or posing or what it would mean to build a life around creating photographs.
It started with a camera and the realization that I could take the way I saw something, a person, a feeling, a tiny piece of a moment, and somehow make it stay.
And somewhere along the way, I discovered something on both sides of the camera.
Behind it, I found a way to tell stories. To notice people. To create worlds. To make something ordinary feel cinematic and something fleeting feel permanent.
In front of it, I learned how powerful it can be to see yourself differently. To step outside of the version of yourself you see every day and meet yourself through someone else's eyes.
Photography has followed me through so many versions of my life. From my earliest shoots in my youth, to discovering both sides of the camera, big cities and small towns, motherhood, creativity, reinvention, and eventually into a little studio in a small Washington town where I get to keep dreaming bigger.
And maybe that's what I love most about photography.
A photograph can be art.
It can be fashion.
It can be expression.
It can be evidence.
It can be memory.
It can be imagination.
It can be someone's confidence coming back.
It can be the last photograph you have of someone you love.
It can be proof that, for one tiny fraction of a second, this existed.
A reminder that you were here, you were seen, and you matter.
I've spent years using a camera as a tool for storytelling, expression, connection, and memory, and it's an honor to share what it can do with others.
So on International Photography Day, I'm feeling especially grateful for that first spark, every person who has trusted me since, every place photography has taken me, and all the photographs I haven't made yet.
Here’s to the moments we witness, the stories we create, and everything a photograph can become.