Mr. Sam came to visit the studio shortly before his Dad’s 60th birthday. Sam is 16 years old and is very hard of hearing and visualy impaired. He rocked his Phoenix session. His photo was a gift for his Dad’s birthday.

When my husband and I adopted our first cat together, we were experienced pet owners. That said nothing prepared us for the day when our sweet little orange tabby Marmalade (Marma was nearly 18) passed away from chronic renal failure. When we returned from the vet’s that day, all we had left was her collar, […]

I wanted to cover this topic because I feel like I can’t accurately put it in my About section and do it justice. My whole life I’ve struggled being me, who hasn’t?  I’ve struggled for fit in, to find my place and find people who get big old complicated me.  When I’m around animals, I […]

Sometimes an animal shelter’s kitty cup runneth over. This is what happened at the local shelter where I volunteer. Enter the Kittenpalooza event. I was asked to help out photographing the kittens that were coming back to the shelter from foster homes in preparation for Kittenpalooza. For a while now, I’ve been trying to figure […]

What do yo do Sunday morning?  Some folks sleep in, some visit places of worship, some do laundry…I spend my Sunday mornings volunteering at the Kansas Humane Society where I photograph shelter animals.  To date, I have photographed canines, felines, rats, mice, ferrets, bunnies, gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs and a pigeon, yes a pigeon. It […]