About Me
Get to know me a little better
A little about me...
Hi! My name is Stephanie and I had an 18 year old dog named Lady who I grew up with. She passed in 2022 but she will always be in my heart! I got her as a teenager and she went to college with me, moved over seas, travelled with me and was always right by my side. That is where my business name comes from, she was my bestfriend and I miss her so much!
So a little about me, well I have loved photography for as long as I can remember. Photography has always grounded me and brought me back to the present moment. Throughout my life I have had different careers but no matter what I would always come back to my love of photography.
So I started my business in February of 2019. I finally decided to follow my dreams of being a photographer. A big reason why I decided to start this business is because I hit my rock bottom with anxiety in 2018. I have struggled with anxiety for as long as I can remember but in 2018 I crashed and it was the hardest year of my life. I had so much anxiety that I could barely leave the house, and all the stress of it all caused a lot of physical pain in my body too. All of this lasted about a year. It was a really dark year for me, all I could feel was anxiety and depression and not much hope.
In December of 2018, with things I now know are not coincidences, God put the right doctor and people in my life to help me. I remember how it felt the first signs of hope, the sun on my skin felt like I won the lottery and the taste of coffee felt like Christmas when I was a kid! I felt so much gratitude for all the little things.
Not long after I had picked up my camera that I had bought the summer before, and it has become such a huge part of my healing journey. To me photography has so many metaphors for life. It helps me see the beautiful light, and all the beauty in the little things. It shows me that some of the most beautiful light shines in the dark, which reminds me how healing and powerful our personal struggles can be to someone going through something similar.
I’ll never forget some of the people I followed on Instagram and their stories of hope and how much that helped me when I couldn’t leave the house. When I started photographing people I put my whole heart in it because I want to capture those memories and moments you share with the people you love.
Photography is so precious to me, it is a part of my life, it is a part of my healing. Being able to photograph families connect and create memories always reminds me and fills me with the most important thing in this world — love.