About
Long before any of these photographs, I was just a kid learning to look.
The valley kept going past anything I could hold, with Jill's dog Kampi steady on the rock beside me. I don't cry at views. I did at this one.
How I see
We remember our own lives more vividly than we give ourselves credit for. I shoot for that version of the memory: punchy, a little nostalgic, closer to how the day felt than how it merely looked. The influences are old photographs and modern art, minimalism with an avant-garde streak. The work is strong on purpose.
With Maddie
Most weddings I work alone by design, and Maddie joins for the full-scale days: multiple locations, larger guest counts, timelines that need four hands. But she is far more than a second shooter. She runs most of the experience off camera, the planning and the back and forth that give couples and clients the best possible day. When the site says we, this is who we means.
Written and Directed
Part of what you are hiring is this: I photograph and I write software, so one person shaped every piece of it, the photographs and the site that carries them. That is why no two sections here look quite alike; each one is built for whoever came looking for that particular thing. Some of what this industry treats as normal, the hidden prices, the slow replies, the friction that never had to be there, I would rather remove than explain, which is what the pricing page is for. Tools helped me lay the bricks, but they did not choose the house, and that quote tool worked well enough to become Tali, which other photographers now use. If it leaves you wanting more from work like this, whether or not you ever book me, it did what I hoped.
The call
The consultation call matters more than people expect. I read energy for a living, and you should get to read mine, because your photographer is beside you for more of the day than almost anyone you hire. We can talk about the wedding. We don't have to only talk about the wedding.
The first camera
Now the longer story. The first camera was cheap, secondhand, and mine at ten years old. The photos were terrible. I kept taking them anyway, constantly, which turned out to be the whole lesson.
Everyone starts somewhere. Mine was food, LEGO, and anything that would hold still.
The detour
Art was never the plan in my house, so I became a software engineer. I was good at it, and I learned things I still use every day. But somewhere between the org charts and the quarterly math, I knew I wanted something of my own, built around the thing I actually loved. In 2017 I started shooting weddings on the side, quietly, while doing life.
They give you a pillow to hold against your chest when you cough. Mine came covered in signatures. That's my husband Joel beside me.
The turn
In May of 2024 I went in for heart surgery, and the layoff came while I was still in it. A bad month, a simple decision. I stopped calling photography the side thing. Plenty of people believed I could do it, and I wasn't always one of them, but I went anyway. Since then this work has introduced me to some of the greatest people in my life. I plan to keep meeting them.