I will start off by saying "Thank you". If you are taking the time to read this then I hope you have found my pictures to your liking. I also would like to say I am in no way a writer so please excuse the mess I will make of the English language.

I currently occupy the role as a mother/grandmother/housewife/photographer....I have a family (as seen in some of my pictures) that have been an endless amount of inspiration in my life, I am thankful each and everyday for their patience, support and love.

I have a deep passion and love for photography, taking pictures is therapeutic and when I am most at ease, if I am having a rough day my camera can set the world right again.

I do not have a degree, I always wanted to be a photographer but never had the time. A few years ago I received a decent camera for my birthday, I decided to try out the manual settings, read everything I could find on how and why to use certain settings then went out and applied what I had learned. Through plenty of trial and error I figured out what would work and what didn't.

As far as the artistic aspect I was raised by a grandmother who was an accomplished artist, through her I gained an appreciation for many forms of art and learned a strong sense for what is aesthetically pleasing to the eye, though I never realized it at the time. As I began to take pictures people would ask me how I knew what I was looking for when taking a picture? I don't know how I know, I assumed everyone see's the world the way I do, until my husband and I began discussing what I was seeing, I never realized that not everyone see's the beauty of the world as they are driving to work or the grocery store. I thought everyone noticed the rich golden fields of grain or the sunbeams streaming through the trees and in their minds could see it as a picture. Now I know we all admire the world around us and we all can see the exact same thing but we all see it differently, not everyone has this overwhelming need to capture it either, I do. I not only want to capture it but I need to, I have a very strong urge deep down in my soul, one that I can barely contain at the moment when I see something I feel needs to be captured in a photograph. Its what I get out of bed for everyday, its that emotional connection to the world around me and the need to photograph it. That's what I live for, before I ever started taking pictures I always felt I was missing a special part of something, a void in my life that my husband, my children or material things could not fill, the day I began taking pictures is the day that void disappeared. My world is now complete.

Now, my husband and I spend hours driving around or wandering through the woods looking for that "special shot". When I find it I manually select my camera settings and hope I get it right.. When I get home and upload my pictures I feel like a kid on Christmas morning, the anticipation at what I may have captured when I open that picture up is the best feeling in the whole world, except when I get it all wrong then its the worst feeling and then becomes a challenge for me to try again.