I am so excited about the fact that there are so many women getting into photography. I see so many stories of new moms getting their first digital SLR cameras and then turning it into a career. The energy in the industry is so much fun and the work coming out of it is so creative. My story is a little bit different. I fell in love with photography around my 16th birthday when I received my first manual film camera. My little sister Lauren was born just 2 weeks after my that birthday so she was the subject of so many of my pictures in the following years. As you can imagine it was so much fun to come back and spend some time photographing the beautiful woman she has become. She really was my first inspiration, my first muse on this journey of photography.