07/15/2026
When I was around 9 or 10 years old, my granddad gave me my very first digital camera. After looking through the photos I had taken, he couldn’t believe some of the things I had chosen to photograph. He always talked about a picture I took of a little w**d growing up through the cobblestone on Riverside Drive. To him, it wasn’t just a w**d. He said I saw things differently. He couldn’t get over the composition.
From that day on, he started sending me photography DVDs, books on composition, and anything he thought would help me grow. He believed in me long before I believed in myself.
In middle school, my best friend Cayla and I were those girls who took thousands of pictures of everything. Looking back, I had no idea those days were shaping the career I’d eventually have.
Years later, I was gifted my first DSLR. Photography stayed on the side while I worked on the Memphis Riverboats, but during COVID I finally took the biggest leap of faith of my life and decided to do it full time.
I still remember photographing my very first wedding for free. My first paid session was $40, and I remember thinking I had made it. Looking back, those photos were probably so pixelated… but someone believed in me enough to pay me, and I’ll never forget them or that.
Since then, I’ve poured everything I have into this creative little business. Countless late nights, missed sleep, self-doubt, happy tears, and so much joy.
It started with a granddad who saw something in a little girl holding a camera.
It grew because of a best friend who never got tired of me saying, “One more picture.”
And it exists today because hundreds of people have trusted me with the biggest and most candid moments of their lives.
Tomorrow, just being recognized alone, is another cool thing that made all of this hard work a little more worthwhile.
& to that I say, Thank You, Jesus. ❤️