Perhaps it was only natural... ... only natural that after devoting myself wholeheartedly to photography for almost eight years, that I would eventually try my hand at videography. And I suppose it was only natural that I would actually fall in love with compiling all those clips, finding the perfect music to accompany the memories associated with each and every one of my shoots. As I’ve been working on my 365 project, I’ve been trying to record all of the behind the scenes details. Creating costumes, laughing with friends, and frolicking through fields and over forested paths. Videoing all of [...]

Art can be captivating and can take you to another world. Whether this world is from your own imagination or from a memory you have long forgotten, art has the ability to stir emotion within us and to make us feel something we hadn’t expected to feel. Personally, I believe this is because behind every great piece of artwork, there is a story. A story of creation that gives the piece soul and emotion. And while some would say sharing this story of what goes on behind the curtains takes away the magic, I would argue that that is where [...]

The hardest part of creating my images sometimes is not the costuming or the props... it’s not even finding the location.   Sometimes it is just seeing the image… imagining it before I can bring it out to the light. This has been the case with Daughters of the King in particular. I attribute this to the fact that this series is depicting a set of beliefs, not something concrete that can serve as a jumping off point to begin my story-telling. How do you depict something you can't hold in your hands, and that has the same number of interpretations as there are [...]

Last October, when I shared my image “To Bring Forth Fruit”, I shared the process of how I created this piece but somehow completely forgot to tell you about what inspired me to create the image in the first place! It's kind of surprising to me, because it's one of my favorite things to do when I share a new image. So while I wrote about my editing process, I realized recently that a girl standing in the middle of the forest holding a plant doesn’t really scream the idea of Faith, which might have been confusing for you. Because of this, I decided that I [...]

Ingredients: 1 thrifted wedding dress 1 seam ripper (to be used with much patience) 1 thrifted slip Gold dye from Walmart 1 construction lamp 1 off camera flash 1 ping pong ball 1 flashlight 1 very patient mother 1 bottle gold body paint 1 younger sister willing to be painted entirely gold A handful of smoke bombs A desire to create   Directions: Last week I shared my newest piece Magic’s Origin, which means this week you get to see all the behind the scenes details! This may or may not be my favorite part. Let’s face it: I’d be [...]