about us!
I was born in Washington State (Go Seahawks!) and my family moved to Oregon when I was little. We started out in southern Oregon but we've been based in the Willamette Valley since 2007. I've had a passion for the arts and the outdoors ever since I could hold a crayon or run around our backyard barefoot in the summertime, and devoured books voraciously as a kid. (I still go a little crazy at the library and usually bring home way more books than I could possibly manage to read at once.) But the travel bug didn't truly hit me until my aunt and uncle took me on a road trip to the Southwest when I was 14, and since then, I'm constantly reaching for new places to explore.
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After having the opportunity to travel to the East Coast, Canada, back to the southwest several times, and even overseas to Taiwan, I met my husband Philip in 2018, immediately developed a huge crush on him, and we got married in February 2020 - right before the pandemic hit! Everyone constantly tells us that it was the best party they went to because it was the last party they went to, lol. We adopted a Siamese-Bengal mix kitten that we named Clara (after the Doctor Who companion) six months later. She is currently an adventure cat-in-training!
Philip works remotely as a full stack software engineer for an educational tech start-up, which allows me to dedicate time to my photography and pursuing a degree in education and linguistics. In my free time, I love to paint, write (I'm currently working on my third novel, a alternate history fiction about the Black Death in the 14th century), and plan future adventures! The three of us live in a 125-year-old craftsman bungalow with huge living room windows that face the sun in the late afternoon - it's my favorite time of day.
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fast facts
My gear: Olympus OMD EM-5; Canon Rebel T3i; Olympus OM10 35mm film camera
Good books I've read lately: The People We Keep by Allison Larkin; Wild by Cheryl Strayed
What we watch on Friday nights: Resident Alien on SyFy or Star Trek (usually Next Generation or Voyager) (yes, we're huge nerds)
What I listen to when I'm editing: 1970s soft rock; Pink Floyd; and Taylor Swift, always.
Some artists and photographers I love: Patrick Wack, Artemisia Gentileschi, Johannes Vermeer, Ansel Adams, Storm Thorgerson
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