Most memories of my childhood were visual. I was always just watching everything and everyone and quietly letting it all sink in. I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio and loved being outside, loved dancing and listening to my parents’ albums and loved reading and looking at photos in books & magazines.

After graduating from Miami of Ohio with a degree in Retail Management and a minor in Photography, i moved to Chicago and eventually broke into photography working with a wonderful fashion photographer, John Beckett soaking in all I could about the studio, the cameras, the shoots, but mostly how to make the models feel so at ease in front of the camera.

I became a photo editor for 2 national magazines both in print and web and enjoyed learning about the other side of the photography business.  In 1997 I finally got back behind the camera and photographed an amazing trip to Italy. When I returned, I exhibited my Italy images and that was the start of my business. I soon found a niche for working with children and developed a style that stood apart from the studio style portraits. I photographed them just being themselves and enjoying being kids.

I am still shooting with film and 35 mm, all manual cameras that are a significant element to my style of photography. I do shoot with digital when the project warrants it.  I photograph everything from children and families to weddings, corporate headshots, travel, lifestyle and last year began working with commercial clients photographing real models for annual reports, packaging, advertising and other forms of marketing and promotion.

I always keep shooting for myself and exhibit that work whenever I can and finding the many amazing images in everyday life. I live and work in Evanston just north of Chicago and share a natural light studio with my husband and his design-build business, ehr-lüm.

I am on the Board of Directors for the Evanston Chamber of Commerce, the Evanston Arts Council and on the Steering Committee for the Young Professionals of Evanston and enjoy working with many of the not for profit

organizations in the community as well.