Bohemian Girl Creations

I got my first camera for my 16th birthday - a Canon AE-1 SLR. I still shoot with it today, though I have made my way slowly into the digital world. In my college studies, I started out photographing people. I still do, especially my children. When you photograph someone, I think the trick is to try and capture their essence, something maybe not everyone sees, and certainly something they try and hide with a big "say cheese" smile. With my nature and art photos, it’s the same. The challenge is to show the viewer something unique about a regular, everyday scene – something they may have missed or overlooked. I try and catch the extraordinary in the ordinary. A place has a certain mystique to it, a feeling, which is what I’m trying to convey through my work. It’s my way of looking at the world, which is, after all, what art is. But ultimately, the viewers will have their own interpretation of my photographs, which is where the magic of artistic expression fully develops.

I attended the University of Tennessee, where I majored in English and minored in photography and theatre. I was very lucky to have studied photography under Baldwin Lee, a student of the renowned photographer Walker Evans. I have been freelancing for about 10 years now. I am also a mom, writer, and actor.