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My photographic journey started in childhood. My father invested in a Minolta X 370 film SLR that I admired for many years before he passed it on to me in high school after I outgrew my point and shoot cameras when I took my first photography class (naturally spending most of my study-hall time in the dark room). Following several lost years a whole new digital photography scene emerged. In 2010 I purchased my first DSLR and not long after began offering some paid portrait work. On a whim, I photographed a wedding for a friend of a friend in 2011 because they had no other options. They walked away from it with some photos, I made a tiny amount of money but found myself with a new hunger for more of that. It was a rush, the whirling of the day, so many details, emotions, candids, and portraits. After 10 years in the wedding industry, I decided it was no longer where my heart belonged. It seemed I had experienced all that I needed to and because I live with chronic pain, I spent 10 years crumbling into a mess of pain and tears the moment I got in my car after each wedding. Now, in 2023 I am rebooting my business, minus the big weddings. I will continue to offer family and portrait sessions and elopement photography as well as photography for small businesses, yoga instructors, and yoga studios.
I am very excited to announce that at the end of May, 2023 I have returned to photography as my full-time job. I left my outside-the-home job in human services in order to return to a more creative way of working and gain a lot more freedom to adventure, be there for my family, and teach yoga. I recently completed a 200hr yoga teacher training through Sharing Yoga in Concord, NH where I am now teaching and will be taking my 300hr training this fall. My husband is now in a position at work where he is gone most of the week and home on the weekends (previously he was a full-time fire captain on a 24/48 schedule and now his the full-time deputy chief so he works M-F). This means it makes more sense for me to work on the weekends or evenings so we can best support our son who is frequently ill without concern that either of us will fall behind at work. Our oldest child, our daughter, is away (only ten minutes away!) at university studying art education and playing ultimate frisbee (she is essentially living my teenage dreams and I am loving that she made the right choices in life to go after it all at her age and essentially, all on her own!). We share our home with our 2 companion pups and are about to welcome 2 more to our crew at the end of June!
