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All About Me, my career, and what led me here to Nashville Tennessee.

With over 15 years of experience behind the camera posing the female form, working alongside industry-leading lighting brands as an educator, and designing studio spaces and sets that feel like art themselves, what I do goes far beyond just taking photos.

I have always been an artist. 

I started in photography back in 2009. I was handed a film camera by my older sister to take to a film class. I learned all about the settings, the chemicals, and developed my own film for a year. Fast forward to 2011 when I graduated high school and a company offered me a job in their editing department. I learned the fundamentals of every software and program on the market.  This slowly transitioned me into shooting weddings for around 4 years and working events... but I learned pretty quickly, events didn't fuel my soul.

I opened my boudoir & portrait business in 2012 and a few years later I had a gorgeous 2000 sq ft studio in Litchfield Connecticut that I hand designed and built. This is where my love for interior and set design truly bloomed. I loved playing with colors, lighting, and creating spaces that felt like they were out of movies. Every six months I'd rip it all down and redesign it. I had my studio sets go so viral that people started recognizing me just for my design work.

I learned to trust myself and build bigger and even bolder sets.

I ran my intimate portrait business in Connecticut for the last 15 years.

15 beautiful , magical, years.

I spent those 15 years traveling the world, photographing thousands of women across the US, Canada, and Europe.... teaching classes in Portugal, Hawaii, and even Australia! My network and knowledge has grown bigger than I could have ever imagined. Creating award winning boudoir images for all those years taught me all the best angles, helped me reconnect clients with their bodies and allowed me to see my art as so much more than just pretty photos. I learned to create experiences that were thoughtful and handled with care. I will forever love this part of my career. 

 

And then,  the love of my life found me and he was this tall dark and handsome cowboy who swept me off my feet and showed me there was even more to life. 

And that leads us to now, 2026. 

I packed my bags, moved across the country, and we built our dream home just 15 minutes from downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

He showed me his side of life and I instantly fell in love with the music industry.

I've shifted my business, my goals, and my dreams to pursue Portrait photography in a different way. I captured a major country artists' concert and I was instantly hooked in the music scene plus capturing headshots, portraits, and content for major brands and businesses led me down the path I'm on today. While I still offer boudoir for clients through word of mouth, I've fallen in love with capturing and creating album covers, content, and stylized productions.

I am so excited for 2026 to create art in Nashville for fellow artists, musicians, and bad ass business owners.

 

A few random facts about me (so you can really get to know me) :

I love tacos.  (the authentic ones, don't invite me over for ground beef tacos) 

You'll find me most days in a sundress frolicking around my yard building something in my crocs, gardening, or making something out of sourdough. 

and I love fashion!! (I bet you're surprised after the croc comment haha ) I always wanted to be a fashion designer and I've made a few dress's that I even photographed this past year. Sewing, DIY & draping... plus this comes in handy when styling and working on photoshoot sets.

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Rooted in Nashville TN,

but always ready for anywhere.

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