I am a photographer based in Monterey, California where I live with my husband Greg, our son Owen, daughter Signe, two dogs, Callie and Morty, and our cat Smokey. My style is artistic and photo-journalistic. I love photographing children, babies, families, couples, pets, events and happenings. I am a fine art photographer as well as a portraitist. I hold degrees in both Art and English. In combining my love for story-telling with my passion for the visual arts, it is truly the stories within photographs that most fascinate me.
Photographs of loved ones are among our most cherished objects and I feel the care taken in creating them ought to honor their importance in our lives. I find it a great joy to create art that is also a historical record of a person, time, or place. The beautiful image of a face that will one day change might be that of our child, or even our own, and it becomes only the photographs we keep that can truly make our memories indelible. That being said, I have also enjoyed taking pictures of my dachschund in a necktie.
Though I was trained using film and a darkroom, I now use top-of-the-line Canon digital equipment. The lessons learned with light, and paper, and stinky chemicals inform my work in the digital darkroom. However, as much as I savored watching my images appear in a bath of chemistry, I appreciate digital photography in ways I could not have anticipated back then. For example, it allows me to use natural light more often than I was able to with film, which means not only a more flattering view of my subjects, but a more honest one as well.
