I’m Amanda (she/her)

I am wife to a hard working, wind turbine climbing husband, and a mom of two adorable, if sometimes exhausting, little girls.  I also work full time as a pharmacist in addition to running my photography business.  I am always behind on laundry and my kids eat way more Easy Mac than is probably healthy.  But I firmly believe that when they are grown, they won't remember the piles of laundry, but will remember how we spent long summer days together at the pool and snuggled them to sleep at night.  

I am also passionate about normalizing conversations around the struggles of post-partum and parenthood in general. I never turn down a hot chai or sugary carbs, and when I’m not working, I enjoy reading and knitting. Just kidding… I’m a mom. I have no idea what free time is.

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I share my hot-mess-ness with you, because I think it’s important for you to know that I would never expect perfection from you. In fact, if we are being honest, perfection bores me. If you want smiley photos in smocked dresses and shiny white homes, I am not the photographer for you. (But I am happy to recommend someone who is!) When you are snuggling your babies on the couch, knowing you should probably do the dishes, but wanting to soak up every minute of that baby smell, THAT is what I want to give to you. I want to help you remember the way their chubby hands wrap around your finger and the way you comfort them when they cry; their preteen awkwardness and their teenage in-between-ness.  All the things you think you'll remember forever but that are gone before you know it.  I promise, you don’t have to have perfect lives to have beautiful photographs of yourself and the ones you love.

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