10/28/2026
A little life update. 🤍
After a lot of thought, I’ve decided to put Nicci Smith Photography on pause while I continue my nursing education.
Photography has been such an important part of my life. It has allowed me to meet incredible people, document families as they grow, celebrate huge milestones, and tell stories that I never would have been invited into otherwise. I’m incredibly grateful for every person who trusted me with theirs.
But this season of life is full.
I’m working as a psychiatric nurse, going to graduate school, raising a family, and trying to be intentional about where I put my time and energy. Photography deserves more than the little pieces of me I have left over—and so does my family. And, frankly, so do I.
So for now, I’m giving myself permission to put the camera down professionally and focus on becoming a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner.
I don’t know if this is goodbye to photography as a business or simply a pause. I do know that photography will always be part of me, and I’ll always be grateful for the years I spent documenting your lives.
To every family, senior, couple, bride and groom, and person who stood in front of my camera: thank you. You helped build something that I’m incredibly proud of.
For now, I’m trading editing galleries for textbooks, sessions for clinicals, and one dream for another. 🤍
Here’s to knowing when it’s time to hold on—and when it’s time to make room for what’s next.
PS to all the families still waiting for their galleries, I promise they’ll be delivered soon!!!
