Julia’s Blogfest

Who am I?

My story is simple. I savor moments, relationships, and emotions and cannot wait to share those with others utilizing my camera as a tool. This is a great gig. For years I did corporate marketing and market research, but never felt fulfilled. Taking pictures was always a side gig and even when I studied it for 4 years, I still had no intention of doing it professionally. In 2002 when the corporate world closed its doors to me, I took some time off to raise my boys. During that time, I still took pictures and was always approached by brides to be to shoot their weddings or by friends of friends to do portraits of their families. I eventually warmed up to the idea and in no time, this side gig became a thriving business which I still have to pinch myself about. I have fun, am pretty good at what I do and enjoy hanging out with newly married couples, kids, babies, and moms ready to have babies. I feel so lucky -- I'm my own boss and work from home in my PJ's at night or not at all if I so choose. I purposely do not shoot more than 10-12 weddings a year and am careful with my bookings for portraits because it's imperative that I attend soccer games, cook dinner for my family and focus on some of my charity work. When both kids are in school full-time, I plan to ramp up the work, but until I choose to do that, I am a mom and a photographer trying to juggle both. All that said, I do work pretty hard as I see midnight on my clock quite often and absolutely love working!

What do I shoot?

I split my time between shooting weddings and portraits. I have consistently shot environmental portraits for the past 5-7 years (or longer) but in the past couple years have started to do a limited number of in-studio shoots for maternity and newborns. I also spend a fair share of my time working for Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep as a volunteer photographer and area coordinator raising awareness of the foundation, recruiting and training new photographers and doing some PR. Please contact me if you have any questions and I hope we can work together soon.