I don't pose anybody or set anything up, I just shoot what I see, the way I see it - real life, just as it comes. Mostly my own family living our everyday - the warm-fuzzy, the whiny-fussy, the silly, the muddy, the sleep-deprived, the joyful, and all of the many overlaps between them. I shoot every single day, and 90% of the time it's all in my home.
I tend to focus my lens on childhood milestones, personality traits, the ups and downs of family relationships, and the mundane tedium of each season of life. I seek to strengthen relationships with my photographs, and I yearn for every unique soul to feel known and valued, just as they are.
And then I shoot nature when I need a break from my people.
Image courtesy of Jen Tracyme
Ska, John Mayer's live jams, dancing to any music with an amazing beat, and the color orange make me ridiculously happy.
I'm an empathizer, a unifier of groups, and a devout encourager. I am, at my truest core, an obsessive student. A forever student. A student of photography, and a student of people. Learning is when I feel most invigorated and alive - it is my soul's oxygen. And photography is a subject whose depth defies mastery, and promises endless chase.
We have a passel of kids, nearly all still at home. I homeschool some of them and I use photography to help me love them all better. My house is never empty, rarely quiet, and my walls are overfull of huge photos of our life.
