About Me

I'm Jennifer, a wife and mom in Texas, where I've lived my whole life (with a few several-month stays in other places). My first career as a freelance writer specializing in literature was perfect for me as a stay-at-home mom. (Who says English degrees are useless?) As my kids have gotten older and more independent, and prepare to launch into their own adult lives, I've turned my passion for photography into my second act.

I was always the mom with the camera, even setting up informal shoots at home with the kids when they were little, but photography really took hold after being a volunteer photographer for the high school marching band, where both my kids spent most of their fall semesters. Band and color guard photography is a total blast! As the kids and I got to know each other better year after year, I started getting requests to do senior sessions. I ran screaming because it's a totally different thing than marching band! But once I tried it? Instant love.

Before long, it was time to take a real run at it. I officially hung out my shingle in Fall 2019, which was great... until covid. Ugh. I made the best of it, learning more, practicing as I could (I may or may not have taken one of my dogs on a senior shoot, ahem), and when the wheels started moving again in our communities, so did I. Since then, I've been booking and shooting seniors almost exclusively.

I LOVE seniors. They are so much fun, and so interesting, and no two sessions are remotely similar. I have enough life experience to understand that each senior is just about to turn a major corner, and they will never again be who they are right now. I want to create that time capsule for their families, so every session is personal. I don't have a "senior shoot formula." I try to get to know my seniors, connect with them, have a blast at the shoot, and end up with great images and incredible memories. My approach is, if it's not fun and/or meaningful, why are we doing it?

Hey, there!