Documenting life and love through my own very personal lens

The decision to become a photographer was one that I don’t remember making consciously. I was recently looking through a box of old photos with my daughter and was amazed to find some shots that I’d taken in high school, long before I chose to document life and love as a career. But my eye was there, already, and I was already using it to capture the world as I viewed it. It is an amazing thing to be able to share that so regularly. Most often, our subjects are clients are those blessed with lives of relative ease. But from time to time, we are able to use our talents in more altruistic ways. Will and I recently took a trip to the Dominican Republic, to photograph a wedding, but were also able to share our gift with some of the local villagers so that they too could have their lives documented. And a little closer to home, we work with both the Children’s Cancer Association and Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep to provide photographic services for families whose lives are being recorded during the most difficult of times. I help to coordinate the services of NILMDTS for the Portland metro area and seeing the dozens of photographers and nurses and friends who so willingly give their all for these families is something amazing to be a part of. So today, I offer a grateful heart to our community, to our world, for the times when beauty can be found both far and very, very near.