Imagination.
I was raised to spend time outside.  We were outside from dawn until dusk or untill my dads trademark whistle (that defied space and distance) would call us home.  I am still that way.  We didn't get much TV, I was forced (maybe, some days) to make believe with what limited resources a child of a loving plastics plant worker and a wonderful stay at home mom could provide, which for me, were plenty.  I remember I made a play companion once out of a bent metal rod that served as legs. We played for months. Silly.  My imagination was endless.

Camera.
So what then do you do for a living when you are a day dreamer who craves the out doors?  Well for years after college I forced this person into a corporate desk job in advertising working with other business people who also didn't like what they did. That didn't seem right.  So I found my husband and fell in love and bought him a camera ( to which I took right back) and fell in love with photography.   At the same time I had found love AND a camera.  I shot my first wedding and I learned that I could find love THROUGH a camera.

Love.
Now my days are filled with brides in love.  I spend my time in old fields next to generations old farm houses or on high dollar luxurious resort roof tops photographing the day of a life time.  No matter where I am, love always looks the same through my lenses. It is good and it is powerful and I am that little girl playing with my friends again at dusk and will do so till my Father calls me home. 

Cause it's what I was born to do.
                                                   
 

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