Friends and family from all over the country traveled to Nevada City for Ryan and Cameron’s destination wedding. Cameron and her closest friends enjoyed each others company within the walls of the Two Room Inn. The elegance of the tiny cottage, with its tufted velvet sofas and stained glass windows, was the perfect backdrop for this […]

The Sierra Nevada Foothills provide a perfect escape from the busy city. It’s always a pleasure to have my sister and her beautiful family visit from Chicago. When they’re here, I couldn’t ask for more.

The life we live is full of broken pieces, heartache and pain. But from those broken pieces beauty can emerge and love can grow. Peace shows it’s presence when we let go of perfection and accept life for what it is. We’re all broken. The life we live now is only part of the plan. […]

Being self-employed for a third of my life has always had me thinking about cost vs. value. I often hear, “it’s just too expensive.” I know I’ve certainly been guilty of saying it. What’s valued is different for everyone. For the past few days I’ve been thinking more about what things I find most important. […]

I’m clinging on to these days with little ones. The mornings are long. But the weeks slip away so fast. I want to remember the beauty alongside the mess…

It sustains life and takes it. A fusion of peaceful and powerful. The Yuba river is where I spent countless days of my earlier years. And now, returning with my children, I’m enjoying it more than ever. We spent the day in a quiet swimming hole miles away from town. An afternoon with no one […]

The wedding day was full of love from friends and family who couldn’t wait to celebrate with Dale and Kari. Toasts extended far beyond the bridal party table and continued throughout the room. Those close to them couldn’t say enough about their cherished friendships. It was my pleasure to photograph the connections between friends and […]

Sweet Abigail was long-awaited. A precious life that Matt and Emily deeply longed for. I had the priveledge of supporting Emily as a doula and witnessed Abigail’s entry into the world. It was a pleasure to photograph some of her first breaths. And now at 10 days old, I got a closer look and some […]

Light is everything and I’m trying to use it whenever it’s available. We’ve been preparing for a big move the past couple of months. We paid a visit to the city of our dreams and scoped it out a little better. Our house is now for sale and we’re trying to keep it clean. We’ve […]

A bus ride to work is where it all began. It was their common ground. Him in the back, her in the front. Each day they would enter and exit. And then his chance came. When he made a delivery for work to her building across the street, their bus commonality struck up a conversation […]