Hi, there! Welcome here. I want to take a moment to introduce myself. Without further ado, Hi, my name is Sam!
I’m sure you’re thinking, “oh great, why do I care about this?” Well, I’m glad you asked, I want to get to know you as well. I love connecting with the families I work with on a personal level. I’m more than another girl with a camera.
I became a photographer way back in 2012. My grandpa loved photography, and he LOVED to talk about it! He gave me one of his film cameras, and I started taking photos of EVERYTHING! We got that film developed, and that was it, I was hooked! This is still a wonderful memory of my grandpa, and I wish he was here to see me now.
My mom found out that our local zoo has a photo club, and she brought me to their meetings. I learned SO MUCH from this, and I have an amazing time connecting with seasoned photographers. It was great to be part of a community. I learned about everything from lighting to what gear was available and everything in between. My friend Daniel and I were the youngest photographers, by several decades, so the things we learned were from years of experience. During this part of my journey I was photographing mostly nature, and I had no idea how to edit at all.
I took a break from photography in my later teen years, but I never stopped loving it. I picked it back up in my senior year of high school, by this time I decided that’s what I wanted to be when I grew up, a Photographer. I wasn’t fully ready to jump in head-on for business yet. Let me be real with you, I was scared to be in business!
Let’s jump ahead a bit, at 18 I got married (yep, 18, nope I don’t regret it in the slightest) and a year later had our first baby. Motherhood is a whirlwind, and I didn’t pick up my camera for a bit, except to take photos of my little one. Skip ahead a few years, we now have 2 kids, and here we are. I finally decided to take my business to the next level and to stop being passive about it.
Today, I am a Family and in-home Newborn photographer. I fused my love for motherhood and my love for photography, and I couldn’t be more STOKED! I get to connect with families much like my own, and I get to create beautiful memories with them. I get to be invited into some of the most precious moments in a family’s lives, and I refuse to take that for granted.
I thank the Lord every day that I get to do what I love! I get to be a Mama AND follow my dreams, this is something that isn’t lost on me. If you’ve stayed to this point I am so happy you’re here, and I hope to be able to share how I see these amazing points in life!
