Dancing in the Dark Photography

06/04/2026

Please vote for my photo in the America’s Favorite Photos competition 🤩 https://AmericasFavoritePhotos.com/v/qv9qsh

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06/02/2026

The greatest gift any photographer can receive is to be welcomed back to photograph someone again and again. Meet one of my favorite families, the Millers, and their five beautiful children. The five P's have grown so much since we last did family photos! So happy to be a part of these kiddos lives!

05/29/2026

This beautiful view is what I get to wake up to every morning!

05/13/2026

People see “$550 photoshoot” and think photographers pocket $550 dollars. 🤯

Here’s a realistic breakdown of where that actually goes 👇

Client pays: $550

• Put away 25% for taxes
$550 → $412.50

• Payment processing / transaction fee
$412.50 → $395.55

• SD cards (1–2 cards for a session, average cost)
~$65–$130
$395.55 → $330.55–$265.55

• Monthly business expenses split across sessions
(storage, gallery delivery, website, subscriptions, editing software, etc.)
~$50
$330.55–$265.55 → $280.55–$215.55

• Gas + travel to and from session
~$20–$40+ depending on location
$280.55–$215.55 → $260.55–$175.55

And that’s before:

• equipment upgrades/repairs 🛠
• camera bodies + lenses 📷
• computer + hard drives 💾
• insurance ✔️
• props/client closet 👗
• education 📚
• advertising 📢
• time spent shooting 🕑
• hours of editing 💻
• emailing, planning, culling, delivering galleries, bookkeeping, & a dozen other payless hours 💸

Photography is a business, not just “showing up and taking pictures.” I appreciate those who know the iceberg of backwork that goes on behind the scenes. ❤️🫶

- Copied from a fellow photographer

05/10/2026

Mother nature is starting to wake up here in the Yukon. Alaska is so breathtaking!

05/05/2026

05/02/2026

The drive from Anchorage, Alaska to Tok, Alaska. It's sooo very beautiful. I cannot believe I'm here!

04/25/2026

Prom 2026! One last photoshoot before this photographer hits the road for the summer.

04/20/2026

This family. I love them all so much!! So happy to watch these babies grow up!

12/03/2025

It's the outtakes that make this job so much fun. She has been making this face at him for four years now, and he just laughs every time. 💜💙💍