About ME

“Don’t get weird on me, Stephanie.” My mom said it when I was thirteen-- but I did it anyway. Growing up I always looked at life a little differently than my peers.  My mom would tell me how I had inherited the creative side of the family, always making sculptures out of mud and sticks while my brothers excelled in sports, for which my highest accolade was getting hit in the head with the ball far to frequently. Instead, I found my real skill and passion in the creative world. My love for photography developed after my dad gave me his old Nikon F3 film camera. I later enrolled in the dark lab photography class in high school, where I was perpetually inspired by my teacher, who had this incredibly strange obsession with horses and (more specifically) the movie Black Beauty, but  I digress. She made photography into more than just taking pictures. She damned conventional thinking and changed the lens through which I saw the world. There was no weird, there was no wrong, and she had us thinking outside of the box.

While I have moved on from film, mostly due to cost and accessibility, I’ve fully immersed myself in the realm of digital photography. Over the past decade, I have grown a successful business out of my fervor for capturing moments (the big, the small, and everything in between) in people's’ lives to preserve them for generations to come. I shoot weddings, lifestyle portraiture, and more, constantly finding new and exciting ways to expand my knowledge. When I entered college, my understanding of art and the creative world was turned on its head. I was fortunate in that my art department allowed for wiggle room so I was able to dabble in multiple disciplines including digital art, art history, ceramics, figure drawing, and numerous other concepts and forms previously foreign to me. This is where developed a specific love for vector artwork. Straight out of college I started full time as a production artist at a t-shirt design company, CustomInk, where I was overjoyed to work with vector-based art every day. Working professionally as an artist for over six years has cemented my love for all things creative and has only increased my thirst for more knowledge.

I plan to remain in the creative field as long as it will have me, dreaming of creative solutions to design problems. Whether it be photography, graphic design, layout or anything in between, I’m ready and excited to tackle the job. If you ask my mom today if I "got weird," she will probably tell you “definitely,” but while I may be a little silly, bonkers, or mad; if Alice in Wonderland taught me anything, it’s that “all the best people are.”