New Zealand is one incredible country. I’m not even sure what to say about this trip. As I’m sitting on my ninth airplane ride in the past three weeks, my final ticket home to Chicago, I’m at a loss of words. I’m sure over the next few weeks, months, and even years, my memories will […]

People always ask what I do in the off-season. Do I take month long vacations and adventure to places I’ve never been? Sometimes 😉 But mostly, the off-season allows me to do things for the business that I simply don’t have time to do when I’m busy on photo shoots and editing, blogging, and delivering thousands of photos. […]

One of my favorite perks of the job is that it allows me to travel. I’ve been able to visit  some amazing cities over the past few years for work – Portland, Santa Barbara, Colorado Springs, and even some places for personal adventures – Barcelona, Florence, etc… but still – New York City was at the top of my list of […]

Mil + Kris… well these two, they hold a special place near and dear to my heart. We first met last year when they hired me to photograph them during their trip to Chicago from California. It was an immediate friendship, bonded over our love of food, travel, and experiencing the new. After our session, […]

A few weeks ago, I took a week long trip out to Arizona to visit my boyfriend (who was there for all of March for Cubs Spring Training), and my best cousin friend, her hubby, and new baby Jordy. It was a glorious week spent in warm weather soaking up sun – jam packed with […]

At the end of the month, I’m moving out on my own. I’ve lived with my two roommates for almost two years now – and we’ve had quite the time at 3E. I’ll miss living just blocks from Oak Street Beach, jumping on each other’s beds when we come home late at night, borrowing clothes […]

Every year, a big group of friends of mine do a Ski Trip over Superbowl weekend. Last year marked the first year we went big and took it out west to Breckenridge, CO. The past years before that we kept it local to the Midwest and went to Devil’s Head and Chestnut Mountain – those […]

A few weeks ago, my family and I spent a long weekend out in Phoenix, AZ to spend some quality time with some family we have out there. It’s funny, because the family we were visiting isn’t actually “family,” we’re not related by blood, there isn’t someone that married us into being family… but the […]

Every year like tradition, a couple photography friends and I make a trip out west for a Wedding Photography Conference. Over the past few years, we’ve gone to WPPI in Las Vegas and United in Santa Barbara – so when my good friend Ryan Moore Photography told me about Mystic Seminars in Portland, OR (a […]

She didn’t make it easy, but this little peanut came into the world on July 30th, 2014… 8 lbs 4 oz., 20.5 in. She is just the CUTEST little thing. She is one sleepy little girl with a full head of hair. I don’t normally do newborn photos, as you can probably tell, but I […]