the essays

art + Entrails

Memory Keeping Artifacts of a Photographer Mother

I don’t like Canola and I don’t care for yellow, but that’s what our field is full of every other year.

Release + Let Go: Unraveling in Banff Alberta

I don’t need a roadmap to my own soul

Cue Emotional Deconstruction

I’m learning film. What a humbling experience.

A Little Bit of Mystery | Red Deer Alberta Branding Photographer

I had the feeling as I planned the session that I should add elements of mystery. Then she told me she was a 2/5 emotional manifestor and thought maybe some mysterious elements would be nice. As she reached down to touch a white cockle, I noted that her hands looked a lot like mine. We […]

Alexa + Kieran | The Valley Weddings | Alberta Intimate Wedding Photographer

If wedding photographers are supposed to have emotional boundaries, I’m doing it wrong. I fought tears multiple times throughout the day – asking myself “you barely know these people. why are you crying?” But I don’t have to know them to feel the palpable longing between them. To witness love and devotion as genuine as […]

Transmutation, Alchemy, Evolution | Alberta Fine Art Photographer

Graduation is an initiation ritual. We move from one phase of life into the next, side by side with peers, supported by our elders. We alchemize the story of childhood into one of autonomy and self-reliance, taking on an adult perspective yet in a still very childlike form. A space of transition; no longer a […]

Back to Her Nature | Alberta Photography Education

The evening green bursts rapture on my skin, luminous warm breath on trees. I am undone, fingertips to dark soil I swim, Awakening to soft kisses from leaves. Bare Skin and the leaves; they are one and the same. The body is our very own patch of earth. How you speak, feel, and interact with […]

Embodying Home | Red Deer Fine Art Photographer

Earthen shell this mass of sinew and tissue I have seen most clearly the scars that mark you. Yet I love every imperfection as if they were lined in gold. Do not shrink from me, my clay-made image though dust you will become I rejoice in our withering as I should have rejoiced in our […]

Becoming a Child Again | Red Deer Portrait Photographer

“I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free,” Catherine Earnshaw laments in Wuthering Heights. I know this feeling well. I watch my daughter run around picking wildflowers, the wind throwing her long hair into her face as she marvels at the simple magic of untamed plants and I think, how […]