Hello -  I'm Kelsey.


I've mentioned I'm a photographer that specializes in wall art and prints.


Let me tell you a sort of sad story about that.
When my daughter was first born well over a decade ago, I hired a local photographer to take her newborn photos.
The images were beautiful, the photographer was a sweetheart and my daughter looked like an angel. 

I selected a digital only package at the time; and my wonderful photographer sent me a gift of a little 5x7 tin meant to hold prints. It had one of my daughter's newborn photos on the front.
"Make sure you print them out!" She told me.

"Of course!" I replied.
And so I did.

Well, I printed one, anyway - an 8x10 to hang on the wall next to my son's newborn photo.
It was a beautiful shot of my daughter, wrapped up and napping in the folds of my wedding dress.

The years went by. We moved, multiple times, my kids got older, I went through multiple laptops and hard-drives, until finally we settled into our forever home. Nearly 8 years had passed at this point, when I came across the little tin with a picture on the cover of my newborn daughter.

"That's right." I thought. "I still need to print these!"

I spent the next two days searching for those digital images. I looked everywhere I could think. I dredged up old thumb drives, nearly extinct laptops, old corrupt hard-drives that needed rescuing - I searched all my online photo accounts, my cloud storage, my shutterfly, snapfish, my e-mails..... files upon files....I looked absolutely everywhere I could think of for where I may have saved those images.

I couldn't find them.

All of my daughter's precious newborn photos, save two - the one I printed for the wall, and the one on the tin gifted to me - were gone. And here's the thing... I can't go back in time and get those tiny toes back...or those little rosy cheeks and itty bitty fingers. That little seven day old baby is gone. And I didn't just lose photos of my daughter that were special to my husband and I -
I'd lost photos that undoubtably would have been special to her someday, too. 

I still hold on to the hope that someday they will turn up. And of course I have iphone shots I've taken, and pictures of her I took as she was a little bit older - but no longer those sweet baby newborn shots. They were a milestone, and they are most likely gone.

It's easy to imagine with the many places available to store digital images that they will last forever.
But the kicker is, they don't. 

Electronics break.
Companies go out of business.
Storage services make mistakes.
We accidentally delete folders.
...and years and years go by, formats change,
and what we easily could find once,
is now buried under three or four or five decades of time, files and devices.

Can you imagine searching for digital family photos you saved from over forty years ago?

Ever since then, I obsessively print everything out. ESPECIALLY the milestones.
I now do this for my clients as well. 

However, fret not. With each print you order, the matching complimentary digital file is included.
That way, no matter what happens, you'll have that beautiful imagery - and so will your children and grandchildren,
long after you and I are gone. 

..and lastly, this artwork I create for you is just that - it's art.  Its purpose is to be displayed, to bring color, beaty and a reminder of love to your home and the rooms you walk in to.

I'm always honored each time I'm chosen for that task.

<3

Kelsey