“We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone”
Grief & Hope
After losing my son in 2015, my life changed drastically. I was no longer the same, carefree newly-wed I had been prior. My dreams were shattered and heart was broken. Nothing seemed to matter anymore. I deleted my happy bump videos, I hid away my maternity photos, and every baby item was locked away. I was lost. But I found hope again after getting pregnant with my rainbow baby. While working through my fears of pregnancy and battling depression every day, I had a newfound sense of, "make every moment count." The sad truth is one day all we will have left of our loved ones are the memories and photographs to look back on and remember. And thats where I found photography...
The images above are some rainbow-memorial photos of my daughter Myra and shadows representing my son, Edward. The first I took was one month after having my daughter, on what would have been Edward's first birthday. The second was for Myra's fifth birthday and what would have been Edward's sixth birthday. It has always been very important to me to keep the memory of my son alive because he is a very big reason I am the woman I am today. I will always love him and he will never be forgotten. My long term goal with Photography has always been to share my story and hopefully let others know they aren't alone in their grief and that I am here to help in the only way I know how.
Memories Live On
A family I know asked if I could create images with their mother who had sadly passed away earlier in the year. I took photos from a session I had done the year prior and with the power of photoshop, created these for the family.
My hope is that the families I work on these images for find peace in knowing their loved ones are never truly gone and their memories will live on through them.
Capturing Memories
My best friend in North Carolina had two miscarriages before her daughter Margot was born and three miscarriages after. I created this image for her after a family session we had so she could cherish a photo with all of her babies, on earth and in heaven.
Gone Too Soon...
I was recently contacted about editing an image for a couple who had lost their precious baby at just 24 days old. The Emmett James had spent his entire little life in the NICU living on machines. My task was to photoshop the wires and tubes out of the photograph as there were no photos of the sweet little boy without them. Because Facebook breaks down the integrity of images, the quality of the original photo was poor. But I was able to edit it well enough to have the image printed as a 4x6 and custom framed as a gift for the grieving parents.
