Meet Ann Autrey!   Ann is the face behind all the amazing plants at Tapteal Native Plants, located in West Richland, WA! Need some information about local native plants?  How about a consultation for what will grow best in your space? Want to turn your space into a Heritage Garden? Maybe you’d like to try growing […]

Ahhh this family!  I have known Eric since our cross country running days at Hanford High in Richland, Washington.  Although we weren’t super close friends, somehow we kept in touch enough over the years (Thanks, facebook!).  So when he was looking to move back to Richland, and get a teaching job, I told him about […]

Things I remember about the 4th grade at Sacajawea Elementary:  A research report about the Everglades, and the animals I made out of Sculpey for the presentation, a travel agency project in which I had to cold-call a real travel agent in Alabama to ask for some travel brochures about the state (and the anxiety […]

It’s so amazing, as a photographer, to get to capture more than one of your life milestones.   Megan and Ian reached out to me for the first time for photos back in December of 2020, when Megan was pregnant with little Maddi.  We had an awesome, but chilly maternity session near the Yakima River, […]

So, we have had what seems like an unusually chilly spring, here in the Tri-Cities, WA. Remember the record-breaking snowfall we had in April? Yeah…. So scheduling this session was a bit of a juggle around the weather, but we finally landed on a beautiful, yet still slightly chilly evening at the Master Gardener’s Demonstration […]

One of the coolest things about being a family photographer in the town I grew up in, is reconnecting with old friends who still live here too. Getting to spend time with people I knew back in high school, and connect now as adults is just so special, and then getting to capture their big […]