Hi there!

I’m all about the rural life, but I also love traveling: heading back to Hawaii on a fairly regular basis, and playing tourist in New York City or San Francisco. One of the highlights of my life has been photographing elephants in Sri Lanka. Next on my list is exploring more of Europe!

I LOVE to cook—my Instagram stories are just as likely to be about what I’m cooking as they are about what I’m photographing. My favorite thing in the world is entertaining friends and family for dinner, and making visually beautiful food that tastes delicious, too.

I became a photographer when a neighbor handed me my first camera, an old Kodak Insta-something, when I was eight, and I became obsessed with capturing everything I saw around me. Today, I prefer the unexpected over the traditional, the candid shot over the posed, the moment after the pose over the pose itself. I’m especially obsessed with capturing emotion: a mother seeing her daughter in her wedding gown for the first time, a couple laughing together, a groom watching his partner walk down the aisle toward him, a bride hugging her father tightly as they spin around the dance floor, a teenage girl realizing she knows exactly what to do in front of the camera even though she didn’t believe it at the start. Those moments get me in the heart place every time.