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What's the story behind STORY?
What's the story behind STORY?
I've always loved photography, and after a decade teaching classes like journalism, newspaper, yearbook, video production, a/v production and commercial photography, I found that it was a way to bring people together. Everyone loves a good photograph of themselves!
Taking photos also made my more reserved students brave and bold. Camera in hand, they were the crowd favorite at athletic events, dances and everyday classrooms. They loved it!
Not only is photography a beautiful way to communicate, but it's also a tangible experience. I found that most students (and myself) post-COVID were desperate to make something with their hands, to be OFF the screens. That led to a whole new wave of students excited to create!
After leaving the classroom for the first time in a decade in 2024, something was beginning to brew in the background. I really missed working with students, but I also knew that I wanted the opportunity to teach differently. To have the bandwidth to deeply explore a topic and truly nerd out with every new learner. Thus, in December 2025, STORY was born.
My goal with STORY is to share my own enthusiasm with others and to tailor lessons to whatever aspect of the craft you want to learn. Maybe you just want one session to learn what all the dang settings and buttons do on your camera and then you're good. Maybe you want to come back with a bunch of photos you shot and learn how to improve them with editing. Maybe you have always been curious to try photography but it felt crazy intimidating and you want a safe space to ask all your questions and really get it. Whatever your aim, I can't wait to work with you!!
A journey through time and cameras
A journey through time and cameras
My love of technology knew no bounds. My siblings and I were always making videos on our family's GIANT shoulder-held video camera, I was in elementary school technology club, I was obsessed with my "kid proof" first digital camera (a behemoth wrapped in silicone and no SD card, only a micro-usb to computer connection), disposable cameras were always on hand during middle school. And then, in 2007, my creative companion for about the next decade of life arrived. It was later followed by a series of iphones until a friend gifted me her old canon.
Of course I always wanted to take "cool" photos. But I've never felt that photography should be this inaccessible art form left only to studio majors and modern art museum junkies. There's so many reasons why you might want to take photos, and even if that's just because you want to document your family life, I would love to help you make those photos turn out how you expected!
The year, 2007. The gift... a canon powershot!
The isolate color feature was especially featured in my early photos.
Landscape again, no surprises here.
A first trip to NYC.
I remember my dad once seeing a friend's vacation photos of Hawaii, the friend waxing poetic about the gorgeous sunsets there, and him shrugging, not sure what the big deal was. "I've seen better sunsets in Oklahoma," he said.
Well, I doubt his friend appreciated that. 😂 And, I don't know that I wholeheartedly agree with him. But. I can tell you that there's something special about the wide open skies of western Oklahoma. They lend themselves to these sweeping, dramatic motifs.
Landscape is where my photography journey spent A LOT of time.
I was only interested in taking photos of people if I could catch them in goofy, silly moments.
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