A little about my life and photography...

My place in the world

I was born and raised a farm kid, living in the Waikato for the majority of my childhood. Days were full, summers were spent by the river, and my favourite mornings were spent with Dad in the cowshed, singing as the machines hummed, and the stars slowly sunk into the colours of dawn.

Palmerston North became my home by accident—I had planned to study nursing and then head home, but before I knew it, my life was here. I married a beautiful man, began working in the Intensive Care Unit, and found myself immersed in new dreams and communities that just continue to grow.  

My loves and I

Tony said hello to me in the kitchen at church, in the middle of 2017. Meeting him felt like coming home, and I felt the Holy Spirit speak right to my soul that this was man I was going to marry. Late in 2018, we were married, and just shy of three years later, the arrival of our first son changed the course of my life in the most extraordinary and rewarding ways.

Motherhood has been the making of me. It’s cracked me open in ways I could never have imagined; reassembled me into a woman more capable, more creative, more compassionate than I thought possible. God has shaped me and showed me so much of His love for us through loving my own children.

I’m fiercely loving and loyal. I’m passionate and determined, and will make a way for things I believe in. I love finding the art in everything... to me, life is poetry waiting to be noticed. 

A Light Beheld

A Light Beheld was born with my nephew. Watching him crown, his tiny arm slipping out and reaching into the water before his body followed. My cheap old camera in my hands, clicking. My soul, completely in awe.

I’ve always been creative, but in that moment, witnessing and documenting the beauty of a life unfurling, I knew I had found a life calling. This was more than creating a lovely image. This was a gift, a privilege beyond belief to see, hold and honour such a monumental point in a person’s life.

To begin with, I thought it would only be birth. But as I’ve grown, I’ve been drawn to document this whole season of nurturing life—the moments we almost don’t notice if we don’t slow down enough to see them.