About

I'm an engineer...  A mechanical one. 
I know most people start out by saying that "I went to this art school"... and "I love what I do for this reason"...   But.... I figured I would start out by telling you that I'm an engineer, just so you know exactly why my writing skills are most-likely sub-par to non-existant at times.  My mind works in competely different ways than your average liberal arts major.  Can you really fault me that much when the classes I took in college had names like Nuclear Particle Quantum Physics?  Actually that's a lie, but still.... you get the point.

Despite my decidedly left-brained ways, I absolutely love art.    I love drawing and creating and staring at pictures for hours on end.  I also love beauty...  (I know that's cliched but hear me out.)  I'm not talking just beauty in the things I see, but in moments, in age, in emotion...   Daily it amazes me how gorgeous this world and the people in it really are.  The first time I picked up a camera it just clicked in my mind that photography was what I was meant to do.  It's hard for me to explain to people exactly how I see the world, but when I take pictures I can show people how I experience it.  Most of my images tend to be on the more vibrant and artistic side of the spectrum because honestly that's how I look at things.  I have a ridiculously over-active and sappy imagination and I think at times it definitely shows through.

I also love music!!  This may sound strange but I see the world through music.  Most of my memories of situations and events have a song playing in the background (in my head).  People always talk about having a soundtrack to your life and I totally do!  I'm not going to post it on here because it would go on for miles...  When I'm shooting I usually have a song playing in my mind...  I try to post whatever song was in my head during the shoot with the pictures on my blog.  Someday I'll figure out a good way to blend music and photography but until then this is all I got.
Oh btw...  I may love music... but.... I'm not any good at music.  I sing constantly but if you asked my husband or friends about it they would probably grimace and shake their heads...  I do play the guitar a little...        Oh!  and the only song I can play on the piano is "Don't Stop Believin" by Journey  and it's uuh-maaaazing!

We live in colorado so I'm definitely a mountain girl.  I grew up  in Winter Park, CO which is a little ski town and you probably guessed it....  I'm a ski bum too!  It's a good bet that you'll find us on the slopes just about every weekend during the winter.  I absolutely love this crazy-beautiful world God has put me in!  Speaking of God, I need to throw a big shout-out His way.  I would be nowhere without His love and guidance.

I'm learning daily and I'm always looking for helpful hints and honest critique.  I also just love talking to people.  My email is musiclovephotography@hotmail.com so shoot me a note sometime and say hey!


More about me if you feel like reading it (as if the above novel wasn't enough):
I smile and laugh a lot!  Maybe too much.  I'm already getting wrinkles from it which daily disgusts me when I look in the mirror.  Recently someone asked if I practice smiling.  I was kind of confused as to what they meant.  Who practices smiling?  Doesn't it just happen?  So as a true engineer I obviously researched it.  Apparently people do...  Why?  I have no idea.  But FYI.  I don't, it just happens...

I'm also trying to convince my husband that he needs to take more pictures.  Looking back over pictures from the past few years I realized that I'm not in any of them.  I mean ANY of them....  Usually because I'm the one taking the photos.  Most of the time I'm pretty ok with that, I'm not a huge fan of actually being in a picture (for various reasons that I won't go into), but lately I've realized that the world and future generations of me may enjoy a few here and there.  So you may see some scattered throughout my blog every now and then as more of an attempt to document the fact that yes, in 2010 I actually did exist!

Oh my husband!  I completely forgot to say anything about Joe....  Sorry bubs.  Joe's amazing.  He' my absolute favoritest person in the entire world.  I know favoritest is not a word but I find it works quite well when describing him.  He's an engineer too so he gets me.  (Well....  as much as anyone could I guess.)  Sometimes he helps me shoot weddings and I'm not joking, there are shots he gets that I am wildly jealous of.  I'm slowly convincing him that he actually is good at taking pictures and needs to be my second shooter all the time.  We'll see if he caves.....

~Plumb~

Every point of view has another angle

And every angle has its merit

But it all comes down to faith

That's the way I see it

You can say that love is not divine

And you can say that life is not eternal

"All we have is now"

But I don't believe it

There's a God-shaped hole in all of us

And the restless soul is searching

There's a God-shaped hole in all of us

And it's a void only He can fill

Does the world seem gray with empty longing

Wearing every shade of cynical

And do you ever feel that

There is something missing?

There's a God-shaped hole in all of us

And the restless soul is searching

There's a God-shaped hole in all of us

And it's a void only He can fill, that's my point of view