about me.

Hi there!

My name is Haley. I love Jesus, crafting, candy, sunshine, hot tea, anthropologie, braids, paint-worthy-clouds, eating out, books, mountains, dandelions and big fields, and thrifting. I squeal a lot when I take pictures, I smile when I'm listening intently, and I like wearing clothes that don't match. I like things that make me feel exotic, and I want to explore the whole world. I am wired to seek beauty.

Beauty is the voice endlessly calling and so we see, so we reach. Who can doubt this beauty? Beauty requires no justification, no explanation; it simply is and transcends. See beauty and we know it in the marrow, even if we have no words for it. {Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts}

One of my favorite things about photographing people is being able to capture beauty, outside of time. I believe that each person I photograph, and meet for that matter, is significant and uniquely gifted. While behind the camera, I love interacting and conversing with my clients in a way that allows them to share those parcels of grace that are uniquely theirs and to recognize them as beautiful. I love the way that photographs of people capture moments, especially the in between & forgotten ones. Whether they stand alone or are strung delicately together, these moments tell stories and uphold memories. They reveal personality in a way that words often cannot. These moments, when we are fully present to recognize the grace in them, bring us joy and I feel blessed to be able to lock them in so that we can relive and relearn from them.

I look forward to getting to know you, whether you are just here to look at pictures, or you are interested in letting me photograph you. I'd love to hear from you-- what you like, what you want to see more of, who you are.

I hope you find great beauty and goofy giddy ridiculous joy as you explore my blog! Thanks for reading it.

Haley