I grew up everywhere. My father was in the military, which meant childhood was a series of new places — the Philippines, England, Germany, Spain, Virginia — and a constant exercise in reading unfamiliar places quickly. You learn to notice things when nowhere feels permanent. That instinct never left. And when my dad handed me his camera in middle school, that instinct finally had a tool.

I spent twenty years in design and that background lives in how I compose. I'm precise about what goes in the frame and what doesn't. Before every trip I research the history of where I'm going, not to caption my images with it, but because knowing what a place has been through changes what you see when you're standing in it. I travel with a spreadsheet and a willingness to throw it out.

Travel is in my bones. it's how I grew up and it's how I work…What I'm after in all of it is the same thing: the feeling of a place, and what it remembers. I'm a fine art photographer and a painter still honing her craft, which means the studio is always expanding. I'm also a Virginia Peninsula Master Naturalist, which means I spend a lot of time in marshes talking to herons.