I’m slowly returning to full time in my business, and I’m very careful and mindful of what I keep from these past few months and what I choose to leave behind. We have been through a lot, after all… For example, I’m saying goodbye to burn out; I’m saying goodbye to overbooking myself because feeling…
Ok y’all – as much as I wish I could be photographing you, I also want you to be able to capture amazing selfies and improve your own shooting technique while working with a smart phone! Business owners especially need to compensate their professional personal branding images with their own personal content and it’s SO…
When one of my bestest friend’s husband turned 40 this year and invited me to Mexico, I was like HECK TO THE YES. I’ve never been and also, girlfriend, I NEEEEEEDED a break. It was the first time I’ve ever been FULLY PRESENT on vacation, not worrying about my business, my baby or all the…
This week I threw my back out bad, then the next day it got WAY worse. So much worse, that I could. not. walk. Imagine NEVER having having so much as a broken bone, then suddenly you CANNOT dress yourself. It was the kind of pain that kept me still in my bed as I…
This July I took ten days off to be with my family and enjoy the beautiful PNW beaches. You guys, it was such a nice trip, lounging around, marveling at my daughter’s long tan legs, eating Tillamook ice cream EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. checking out Newport Aquarium, and just breathing in that sea air. Enjoy just…
Somebody recently told me: “I don’t understand what activism has to do with running your business. You need to sell your work, not post about women’s right and issues.” But you guys, the only reason I diverted to women’s portraiture from weddings was because I noticed how this culture treats women, how it makes them…
A while ago, my beautiful friend Erika Worth (the genius behind ROAR Voices) asked me to speak on stage at the Kiggins Theatre for her show on Bodies. My first thought was “ABSOLUTELY NOT”. My second thought was “OVER MY DEAD BODY”. Who the hell am I to speak in front of a huge crowd?…
I had the privilege to photograph this beautiful soul because her aunt, Danielle messaged me one day and asked to gift a session to her niece, adding, “I really want her to feel beautiful and know she is special and worth all the love in the world.” (PS. I read her message and cried. Ugly…
I LOVE photographing women. I think at this point, it’s OBVIOUS. RIGHT? OK, well I DO. I got into this game (of empowering women thru photography) as you all know, after I had my daughter. And I realized how frickin lonely it can be to be a mom, to want to be perfect at everything…
How lucky am I? I have been loved for over 31 years by this magical creature. Any moment I feel unimportant or small or like I don’t matter in this great big world, I look at these old photographs. I look at my mom with her crazy 80’s perm and thick frames and I ask…