Well, that’s a long story. I’ve been taking pictures for as long as I can remember. I grew up in the country surrounded by farm fields and I was always running around or climbing out on the roof to capture the beauty of this earth. I still remember my first camera was purple film camera with a yellow wrist strap. My dream job for a while was to be a Nat Geo photographer.
Fast forward many years and I was looking for a way to avoid your typical boring college job during the school years and also looking to make some extra money while I spent my summer months working at a summer camp. I decided to take my hobby and turn it into something more.
I started with just senior and family photos. When people would ask me if I’d ever consider being a wedding photographer I would quickly say “absolutely not!” But that was before I realized the potential it had for creating something beautiful. All I’d ever seen was boring staged photos and I didn’t want that. I quickly learned that my over emotional and nostalgic personality married (no pun intended) perfectly with being a wedding photographer. This gave me the opportunity to create something unique and to tell stories through my work. I decided after college that I would work a desk job only as long as I needed to but going full-time photography was the goal.
It’s been 7+ years since I started this business and I haven’t looked back since.