A senior shoot on the ball field for high school sweethearts. 

It’s Senior Sunday! I am going to go back a couple months to one of my senior reps sportrait shoot. We met on the softball field at my alma matter Fortuna High. I had just finished another senior shoot right before that, but was looking forward to Shelby’s because I love senior sessions and I […]

This was SUCH a fun season filled with amazing people and so many beautiful pictures. I am so happy to get to build confidence by providing seniors with photos that they can look at and love, and I am SO happy with all of the feedback I have been getting from my seniors and from […]

Senior sessions are my favorites! I had the special privilege to shoot these awesome senior boys this 2017 school year. They attended schools as far south as South Fork High School, all the way to St. Bernard’s Catholic School, with a few Fortuna High and Ferndale guys sprinkled in. A few of them made the […]

Miss Vanessa : ) For Vanessas senior session, we met beforehand to get her hair and makeup done by  Carly Lehman. Her mom and I enjoyed talking about and catching up on news from The Real Housewives, and Teen Mom,  while Vanessa was being pampered. We shot these by the Benbow Inn in Benbow California. […]

I’m throwing this blog back to fall of 2016. Since I have a new website and am trying to update my blogs more consistently, you may see some older shoots surfacing. Katelynn and I met in a little spot in the Redwoods. It had been raining non stop so the ground was pretty saturated, but […]

I have known Bekah since she was born, so it was a pleasure to do he senior portraits. She is so sweet and nice, and also a great athlete.

We met in Scotia to her photos and they turned out great. It was a fun time, laughing and catching up. One of my lighting umbrellas broke, but we continued on and got some great shots. It was nice to visit Scotia again, as I grew up right next door in Rio Dell and used to work at the Pacific Lumber Company when I was going to college.

I don’t really talk very much about myself. I am so busy with photo shoots, editing and two kiddos that there isn’t really time, but after an insanely busy week, I am taking some time to tell you a little bit about myself: the old me, whose core is still there…just hidden underneath an extra padding of layers put on by stress . Let  me tell you about the love of my life (before I met my husband and had my kids.) We met at age 12. As soon as I felt that leather ball on my fingertips, I was hooked. And the sound of the swish of a perfect shot going through the net was the best sound on earth. I spent HOURS on the basketball court. After practice, before and after dinner. I would challenge my dad to a free throw contest after dinner ever night. Whoever lost would have to do the dishes.

It’s been a long, long while since I have written a blog, but I am caught up on editing for the night (besides personal galleries) before an onslaught of family sessions this weekend. I am truly blessed to get to work with the clients I do. The first time I met Kacy was at our session and she was one of the sweetest, kindest seniors I have met.  She was also very comfortable in front of the camera and up for anything. She didn’t mind getting a little dirty. : ) It was an overcast day, but we still got some great shots.  I have so many favorites from this session! 

Jessi’s mom contacted me near the end of the summer about Jessi’s senior pictures. I am sure glad she did. We had so much fun climbing through the barn, playing on old equipment, and getting some shots with her horses. Jessi is a Rodeo girl, and carries with her that humble, hard working atttitude. She was up for a morning shoot and that made this morning loving person happy!  As an added bonus, my kids came with me and got to see pigs, experience a little bit of the farm life and ride a horse. They were happy campers too 🙂 Thank you so much for such a fun shoot!