From a young age, I always loved taking pictures. I would randomly take disposable cameras to school and anywhere I could to take pictures. When I would look to my future I wanted to travel the world and take photos of nature and parts of the world most don't travel to. As a young girl, I remember sitting on my grandmother's floor going through family photographs of her parents and my distant family. In those moments, I realized I didn't want to just take pictures around the world.  I wanted to help families capture memories like these that will one day be passed down to their future generations.

Since starting my photography journey I have managed a few studios in Modesto you may know. Starting at Kiddie Kandids back in 2009 was such an eye-opener as to how much joy this career path is going to bring me. I remember having families come in for many milestone moments in their lives, to see the way they looked at their images after was mesmerizing. From Kiddie Kandids I went over to Sears Portrait Studio to continue what I knew I wanted to keep doing in my life. Spending 3 years in a studio setting was nice. To be able to get creative with what was available at the studio was exciting. Once they closed I went full-time with my outdoor photography business. Boy was this a change, but a very welcomed one. To be able to combine my two favorite things, the outdoors and photography was all I could ask for in a "job".

Now here I am 11 +years later, still getting the same joy and butterflies

as I did from starting in the small studio all those years ago.

My portraits are true to the moment with a clean editing style. The great benefit to outdoor photography is the beauty that is around us. I work a lot in the local areas of Modesto, but I am always ready for an adventure. I work primarily in natural light, only shooting in the early morning of the day or in the last couple of hours, in that Golden Hour of magic. When getting that great family photo posed photos are wonderful, but we know these little ones can have a mind of their own. So I tend to let their personality shine and roll with the unplanned.