Happy World Photography Day to all my incredible photographer friends!


And to meeeeeeee!


Becoming a Family+brand portrait photographer and storyteller has been the most incredible adventure.


I love documenting family memories, creating heirlooms, and building personal brands. It is all about legacy.


Every day, I feel SO blessed to do what I love for a living that I don't even mind the long hours photographing, culling, editing and delivering heirlooms that will be part of your lives forever.


I want to pour happiness into your lives by creating the best photographs you have ever seen of yourselves.


I am thankful for all of you who have supported, encouraged, followed, hired, or referred me during my artistic journey.


I am forever grateful to you.


For me, photography is everything. I photograph with all my heart because I want to pour happiness into your lives by documenting the ordinary in an extraordinary way.


You are in my heart if I have ever photographed you.


Today, I want to share my favorite quotes about photography to celebrate World's Photography Day.

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are

— Paul Caponigro

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Fortunately, I am way past 10000 photographs... I mean, look at him!

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

— Dorothea Lange

Photography is the story I fail to put into words.

— Destin Sparks

There is one thing the photo must contain – the humanity of the moment.

— Robert Frank

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

— Aaron Siskind

Photography is the art of making memories tangible.

— Destin Sparks

When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!

— Ted Grant

If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.

— Don McCullin

Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary.

— Harold Feinstein

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart, and head.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

— Edward Steichen

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

Only photograph what you love.

— Tim Walker

The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

— Ernst Hass

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

— Annie Leibovitz

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it’s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.”

— Eve Arnold

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.

— Linda McCartney

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

— Karl Lagerfeld

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.

— Ansel Adams

I didn’t choose photography, photography chose me.

— Gerardo Suter

It’s amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite.

— Kiera Cass

Photography is just magical and otherworldly.

I am blessed it chose ME.

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