Last year began with more funerals than weddings, snowstorms than sunshine, and more devastating news than glimmers of hope. That particular January felt colder than usual. I'm not sure if it was the actual weather conditions, or the condition of my own heart. I'd experienced hardship and wrestled my own "inner demons" before, but this was a time I did not even recog[...]
She's free spirited. She's energetic. She's young. You might even remark or think amongst yourself that you'd like to know what life is like in her shoes. To be in young skin - maybe even twenty-six again - causes you to take an extra glance at her. After all, she's lived at nine different addresses, another coast, and two different countries in a four[...]
November 7th, 2019 Today, I think my life may have changed. I woke up, feeling the weight of another mundane, ordinary day. I felt tired. Sluggish. Completely unmotivated. But I felt in my heart that I needed to go run. I didn't want to. Since the breakup, my joy for the sport has come and gone. But after lounging around and procrastinating for over an hour, I[...]
Landon and Amanda's wedding day was a highlight of my entire summer. Not just a highlight from my many photo bookings, but a highlight that I look back on with so much happiness and awe. It was one of those days I packed up from and felt like I had not merely left a photography client, but dearest friends. My entire summer of weddings has felt accidenta[...]
I took this self portrait four months ago; quite literally in the middle of a really desperate moment. Everything in my life felt like it was spilling over; like red wine spilled and stained on white carpet. I had this towel wrapped around me and walked into my room for a change of clothes. In an instant, the crippling paranoia from January's madness hit[...]
Dear 16 year old AG, In just a little over a week, you will say "GoodBye, 25" Veruca Salt circa 1997 style. You will have lived and breathed on Planet Earth for twenty six years. Sometimes that seems normal; other times it feels kind of surreal. The odds are forever and always against us in this world, and to survive - much less thrive - is kind of a miracle,[...]
I've had multiple people ask me when I am going to share more in depth about my time overseas. After all, spending four months in Russia and Turkey, navigating two entirely different cultures, languages, more plot twists than one could even count, and adapting to do life as a local would - at least as much as possible - is not for the faint of heart. In fact, I have[...]
I never anticipated that I would have this many faces in front of my camera in 2021. Actually, I never anticipated even picking up a camera in the first place. At the end of 2020, I decided I was done. I retired my trusty old Nikon gear to storage, turned down shoots, and dubbed photography as a niche of the past. I was fourteen years old when I started shooting, an[...]
In 2018, I watched my first Boston Marathon, and decided right then and there that I wanted to run THIS marathon. It was the year of torrential downpour, freezing temps, elites inevitably on the sidelines, and the runner I went to watch, totally killing it and blazing on through. Something about this race felt....magical. Raincoats, numb fingers, drenched runners[...]
Sometimes, I feel overcome by shadows. The shadows strangle and suffocate and remind me of who I once was. Sometimes, the world feels submerged by shadows. The shadows loom with constant heaviness and evil and twisted truth of a "perverse generation", indeed. Sometimes, I feel like a shadow. Sinful. Broken. Damaged. A diminished light. When I was[...]