Experienced Photojournalist

Here's where I get to tell you what a wonderful wedding photographer I am and how much fun I am to be around. :) Some might expect me to start with a little story about how much I loved to draw when I was a child, (I really did -- I wore out two etch-a-sketches and a spirograph.)

Others might expect me to go on and on about the years (25) I've worked in the field of photojournalism or to drop names of big newspapers I've worked for (like the St. Petersburg Times and the Indianapolis Star). Not quite as predictable would be info about how I was a professor of photojournalism at several colleges and universities (the University of Southern Mississippi, Florida Southern and St.-Mary-of the-Woods College.)

At this point, most would expect to see a list of impressive national & international awards I've won (like Pictures of the Year International, the Southern Short Course, Wedding Photojournalist Association, the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar and the Women in Photojournalism Conference.)

But, the fact is that all of the boasting means nothing if you're not wowed by the wedding photojournalism images you see in my PORTFOLIO.

A surprising fact--I just finished my master's of divinity at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta. Another interesting tidbit of information--I played (well, mostly practiced with) the Emory women's water polo team my last year at Candler.

I travel home to Hattiesburg, Mississippi often to visit my two beautiful red-headed grandsons Carter and Owen and to California on occasion to see my other gorgeous grandson Michael.

In addition to photographing weddings, lifestyle portraits and visiting grandkids, I play with my dog, raft, sing off key, go to movies, agitate for social change, bake muffins, design wedding albums and work on personal documentary projects.