Coming home…
My first summer during college I moved to Kenosha County, Wisconsin to work as a counselor at a camp. Little did I know that several jobs and years later I would be right back “home” where it all began with a photography business. In the in between years I have earned a BFA in Photography and then worked full-time on a cruise ship teaching photography and photo editing to cruise ship guests.
My first summer during college I moved to Kenosha County, Wisconsin to work as a counselor at a camp. Little did I know that several jobs and years later I would be right back “home” where it all began with a photography business. In the in between years I have earned a BFA in Photography and then worked full-time on a cruise ship teaching photography and photo editing to cruise ship guests.
I love creating images. In fact my favorite stuff to capture is details. I am guilty of loving detail shots so much that when I was cruising the world I would forget sometimes to capture the wider scene…honey, your photo of a unique door knocker in Spain is lovely, but what did the town look like? Oops. I’m definitely better at capturing both now!
That’s probably why I love portraiture so much, though. I love getting in close and capturing the details, just like I always did in my travel photos. Newborn images, with all the tiny fingers and eyelashes, lips and grins are so captivating. Children and their wide eyes of curiosity and wonder… Pets with their goofy underbites and tilted heads when they want to know where the squeaky ball sound just came from. I love capturing these moments in time and preserving them forever.
What’s in a name…?
I’m just a simple down-home prairie girl from southeast Wisconsin who loves to photograph newborns, children, families, and pets. Check out my website to learn more about my style and my desire to get the images off your phone or computer and get them printed so that you can enjoy them every day.
I’m a simple down-home girl from the southeast Wisconsin prairie who loves taking photographs your family will love for generations. I am equally passionate about getting the photographs off the digital devices and onto your walls where you can enjoy them every day in the simplest and most impactful way as professionally printed heirloom quality products.
I have a lifelong love of the book series Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Combining this love of the simple sweet life on the prairie with creative endeavors that could financially support myself, years ago I decided to name a new handcraft business prairie girl co. Like Tiffany & Co. or NY & Co., but I chose lower case letters to emphasize the sweet simplicity.
A little over a month after opening that business, where I created knit and crochet toys, Christmas ornaments, and other small home decor items, I bought a lively Engapoo puppy, named Annie, who is the most cat-like dog I have ever met. I have not (yet) been able to continue the crafting business due to her obsession with yarn and anything that moves that I’m currently working with.
Well, now that I have (technically) two businesses I decided to add a descriptor to each name so that you would have some clue what I sell. That’s always helpful, right? So, prairie girl co. | Photography was officially born!