12/02/2025
I’m wrapping up my final sessions, and it’s settling in just how big this moment really is. For 10 years, I’ve chased the sunset almost every single night. It became the backdrop of my life — loading the car, grabbing my camera, running out the door right as the sky turned gold.
I’ve watched families grow through my lens. I’ve captured once-in-a-lifetime moments, the kind that went viral or made people cry or laugh or hold their breath. And somehow along the way, 23.4K of you followed this journey — something I never imagined when I first started.
This business became so much bigger than I ever expected. I’m grateful beyond words that I became successful enough to stay fully booked — to the point where this past year, I had a session nearly every single night.
And if you’ve been here a while, you know I gave it everything I had. I shot sessions at 38, 39, even 40 weeks pregnant. One of those nights I went into labor, and three days later I was back shooting sunflower photos. That happened three different times. I don’t know whether to call it dedication or delusion — probably both — but that’s how much I loved this work. How deeply I wanted to show up for the people who showed up for me.
But chasing sunsets for everyone else also meant missing a lot of my own. Missing evenings with my kids. Missing slow nights at home. Missing the tiny, ordinary things I always thought I’d have more time for.
Ten years is a long time to give so much of yourself to something. And somewhere along the way, I realized my family deserves a version of me who isn’t always packing up to leave right when the day gets quiet.
I’m proud of what I built. I’m proud of the moments I was trusted to catch — the wildly imperfect ones, the emotional ones, the viral ones, the fleeting ones that will never happen quite the same way again. And I’m endlessly thankful for every family, every message, every session, every ounce of support that helped this dream grow.
But now… it’s time to come home a little more. To watch my own sunsets. To be present in my own moments.
Thank you for a decade of believing in me.
Thank you for 23.4K of you who cheered me on.
Thank you for letting me be part of your memories.
