I put my camera down 4 years ago. here's why i'm picking it back up


There’s a moment  if you’ve ever been deeply passionate about something where life just sort of… takes over. Not in a bad way. In the best possible way, actually. Four years ago, I put down my camera. Not because I fell out of love with photography, but because I became a mom. The hardest job I've ever had.


But, motherhood didn't kill my creativity, it sharpened it.

Here’s what nobody tells you about stepping away from your craft: you don’t actually stop seeing. You just start seeing *differently*.

I spent four years noticing things I used to rush past. The way morning light hits a kitchen table during breakfast. The split-second before a toddler dissolves into giggles. The way kids look at the world, wide open, totally unguarded, like everything is still a surprise.

I wasn’t behind a camera. But I was storing up thousands of shots in my head. Turns out, living life as a mum is one of the best things that ever happened to me as a photographer. Because now I know from the inside, what these moments actually mean.


What 4 years has taught me.

I used to photograph weddings. Food. Products. I was good at it. I loved the craft, the technical challenge, the discipline of getting a shot just right. But there’s something different about family photography. Something I didn’t fully understand until I was living it myself. These aren’t just pictures. They’re the proof that this chapter happened. That your kids were *this* little. That your family looked exactly like *this* on an ordinary Tuesday afternoon in the foothills. That you were all there, together, in the chaos and the joy and the mess of it.

Families don’t always realise how fast it goes — until it goes.

I realise it now.


I live in Cochrane, Alberta, which means I get to call the Rockies my backyard. The Bow Valley. The foothills rolling out in every direction. Golden hour here isn’t just a lighting condition, it’s an event.

This landscape deserves to be in your family photos.

And your family deserves photos that actually look like your life, not stiff, not staged, not everyone-smile-at-the-camera. Real. Warm. Alive.

That’s what I’m here to create.