As someone who loves to take nude photographs of women, one would think that I would market myself a boudoir photographer. Labeling my work boudoir would certainly make it easier as the term “boudoir” itself is so popular. It just makes sense, doesn’t it? But I can’t bring myself to call my work boudoir. It […]

“I shoot the way I see,” she told me, “I just take the picture I want to take.” And I realized that I was talking to a follower of the Artistic Wild, soul deep, intuitive, and unyielding in her vision. Her eye is focused and it’s focused on her own heart and the strange beauty […]

Last weekend I went with my friend to Calgary for a night of art, relaxation, and friendship. While there, I was love punched with some insight about my country snobbery. A rural girl at heart, I’ve always wondered how people survive in cities. How do you cultivate a relationship with Nature when you are surrounded […]

Longing for someone looks different once you’ve been married for a while. You have to create the distance that longing requires because it doesn’t come organically anymore.

Or maybe we’ve been so over-fed families on golden lit hills that we’ve never considered that our family photos could be done any other way.

Is it unethical to photograph a naked child? At what age does child nudity become inappropriate? Where is the line between child pornography and documenting childhood in the natural state of nakedness? These are questions that have been on my mind since I started my photography journey. As someone who loves to use skin in […]

How I use Lightroom overlays

When my sister-in-law reached out to me about doing a session with her friend Kori in her Jingle Dress, I was over the moon excited. I instantly started conjuring images of slow shutter speeds and blurred color, but the heart of this session didn’t truly dawn on me until I met Kori. In an email […]

The expansion of the womb demands an expansion in every other area of your life. You don’t get to stay the same. Everything shifts, and it should. As a woman’s body expands, so does her awareness. Of how she was raised. Of how she wants to raise her child. Of the dangers lurking in the […]

Why book a womanhood session? Women are ever-evolving creatures. Born into an intricate connection to the flow of nature, a woman who lives from a place of intuition understands that the big moments that change the trajectory of our lives are not graduation ceremonies or weddings, but the thoughts that come to us in quiet […]