About Me

I think the first camera I owned was a Kodak disc--you might remember those if you were a child of the 80s.  I think I was in 3rd or 4th grade.  I loved that camera.  And I loved taking pictures with it.  I took pictures of anything and everything.  I think I still have some pictures tucked in a box of various sofas, lamp shades, and chandeliers at the Marriott Hotel in Albuquerque, NM.  I have continued taking photographs throughout my life, first as the designated family photographer and then later as a proud new mother.  I was the girl who usually had a camera either in her purse or around her neck.  I've left a camera on a roller coaster at Six Flags in Dallas and I've ruined a camera by trying to sneak both it and a diet coke into the movie theater.  I was one of the last ones to go digital but once I did I never looked back or slowed down.  All of these events have led me here--to this place.  I find myself wanting to learn more and fully grow into the fabulous photographer whose vision I'm trying to capture with each photo I take, the fabulous photographer who's been trying to make her debut since the 3rd grade.

What I love most about photography is that it teaches me to see the world.  It keeps both my eyes and my heart open to life's beauty.  Perhaps that is true of all art forms--art encourages us to stay awake, to pay attention.  When I'm in 'photo mode' the world opens up in a new way.  I begin to see the poetry in the ordinary: the license plate tangled in a barbed wire fence, the blossoms growing through and around a chain link fence, the chair waiting to hear the latest gossip, the single green shoot growing out of a demolished brick wall, that certain flash of an eye, that delicious smile, that moment when someone's story is written in every freckle or line on their face.  And luckily, through the power of photography, I'm able to attempt to capture that moment of pure poetry.

Seeing the poetry and beauty of life...with a camera around my neck...it doesn't get any better than that.