Meet Your Family & Equine Photographer

I'm Emily, and I'm great at awkward (unless I have a camera in my hand. It's like my security blankie).

 

And let me guess: You've been thinking about portraits longer than you'll admit.

 

Maybe it's the family session you keep meaning to schedule. Or portraits of you and your horses, together in your favorite spaces. Maybe your senior is turning a page you can't turn back and you want something real to hold onto before she does.
 

I know that feeling from the inside, because as a mama myself, I know time doesn't slow down the way you think it will. When my daughter drove herself to volleyball practice for the first time, I stood in the driveway not quite sure what to do with that. The kid who used to need me for everything now needs a parking spot more than she needs a ride.
 

And every milestone comes faster than the last. That's exactly why the photos matter.
 

You want photos in your home, the kind that stop you mid-hallway years from now. Somewhere in the back of your mind, you've been waiting for someone to tell you it's okay to want them. That permission was always yours. I'm here to tell you it's okay, and you found your photographer.

I've been photographing Nebraska families, seniors, and equestrians full time since 2018, when I left my corporate gig to spend more time with my daughter. I've been a life-long horsewoman, growing up competing in 4H, showing in almost every class and eventually making it to Hippology nationals at the Denver Stock Show (where I earned Reserve Champion Individual). I'm not a photographer who gets nervous around your horse, but one who knows how to accent the right angles and movements.

And on the camera-side of education, I earned my Certified Professional Photographer certification through the Professional Photographers of America in March 2022. Consider me a forever learner, seeking out workshops and mentors along the way to help me provide the best experience I can. 

The person you talk to before your session is the same person behind the camera during it (possibly looking like a bridge troll), and the same person who will sit across from you at your reveal, guiding you through picking out those images you just can't wait to hang on your walls. 

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Mamas may cry at reveals, seniors see themselves the way the people who love them already do, and horse people finally have photos that show the rest of the world what they've always known about their horse. That's what I'm here to deliver.