First Paid Session | January 2014 Dear 2014 Jessica, Be proud that you took the leap and started your own business. It can be very difficult to put yourself out there, and you no doubt fear rejection and criticism like many others who take that next step. Don’t forget that continuing your education, stepping outside …
Dear Stephanie, Right now you feel like your life is a whirlwind, I know. Everyone seems to be going in different directions and some days you struggle to fit everything in and make everything work. It has been a whirlwind kind of year with lots of changes and a mix of highs and lows. Balancing …
I’ve been asked to write a letter to my past, current, and future self. This year I turned the big 40, so there is no better time to reflect. Dear Sarah, You are just 23 and have just graduated college with a degree in something that you are not passionate about. You’ve married and moved …
One of my first photography session December 2015. Dear Jenna circa 2005, It’s me. I mean you – just 11 years older and I would like to say somewhat wiser (hopefully). You’re going to go through some mighty ups and downs in the next decade but you marry the most loving, hard working, honest man and you are now …
So, I have been asked to write a letter to myself. A very interesting reflection I don’t do often enough these days. I would like to write a letter to my younger self. I am 38 now and I really need to have a pep talk to my early 20’s self. That poor, poor …
2010 Dear Just-Starting-Out-Caroline, I sit here at the other end of your journey—sort of. I know the journey is far from over, but you will find yourself free from so much that encumbers you now, in a few short years. Life will be hard. Very hard. You will spend many nights in tears over things …
Hey 1999 Monica, So you want to be an artist? You think photography is going to help you express all those crazy feelings you have swirling around inside you? Let me tell you a thing or two about what you’re in for. This will be a journey riddled with self-doubt and anxiety. You are going to somehow …
2013 Oh sweet lady, My how far you have come in the past three years. From that very first moment you picked up your first DSLR you have been on the go. Wanting nothing small for yourself, you decided to ignore all of those little nervous voices in your head that were placing doubt and plunged into business …
Dear Photographer, Right now, you are standing on the precipice of something new, and something exciting, and something that has the power to fill you up so full you won’t know what to do with all your extra. But it’s scary, doing something new, and so you’re drawing all your courage together to take the …
2010 Dear {future} Elizabeth, Hello, love. I hope this note finds you well and happy in 2021. You have a 12 year old, 9 year old and 7 year old now. Wow…as the cliche saying goes, where has the time gone? When I sat down to write this letter to you, it seemed like having …