Tag: travel


  • Rocky Butte, Portland (2016)— one of those places where the city feels like a constellation pretending to be earthly. I love this shot because it captures exactly what Portland does best: soft twilight, endless trees, and a skyline that looks like it’s humming under its breath. Even the graffiti felt poetic, like someone else stood…

  • Cliffs of Dover (2019)—the kind of place that makes you rethink every dramatic moment you’ve ever had, because nothing competes with this level of dramatic scenery. The wind was wild, the drop was terrifying, and the view felt endless. There’s something grounding about standing somewhere so iconic and realizing, “Oh…this is why poets lose their…

  • Somewhere on the side of the road in France — where my ex-husband and ex-father-in-law were busy daring each other to touch an electric fence (because apparently adulthood is optional), and I was over here making friends with a very handsome horse. He walked right up like, “Finally, someone with sense.” Honestly, same.

  • Polynesian Cultural Center, Hawaii (2016)—the night the drums shook the air, the crowd went quiet, and this performer absolutely owned the stage. There’s something about a luau that hits you right in the chest: the color, the rhythm, the storytelling woven into every movement. She was radiant, genuinely—like she wasn’t just performing, she was inviting…

  • Fire pit on Anchor Inn on the Bay’s private beach in Traverse City (2016)—the kind of spot that feels like it’s seen a thousand summer nights and still has room for a thousand more. There’s something about a weathered fire pit on the sand that instantly drops you into nostalgia mode. Late nights, lake breeze,…

  • Tower of London (2019)—proof that even the darkest corners know how to put on a light show. I’m obsessed with how this photo turned out: the cool blues pouring through the window, the warm golds clinging to the stone, that little pocket of green glowing like it’s keeping a centuries-old secret. It’s like the whole…

  • Village Park, Empire, Michigan — where the water looks like it forgot it’s a lake and decided to cosplay the Caribbean instead. I love the mix of textures here: the wild dune grass, the weathered fence, the bright turquoise stretching out like it has no business being in the Midwest. It’s one of those places…

  • Palace of Versailles (2019) — where the halls were shoulder-to-shoulder, everyone had a selfie stick, and my patience was hanging by a thread dipped in gold leaf. So I did the only sane thing: I looked up. And somehow captured the one moment, in the entire palace, where another human being wasn’t in the frame.…

  • This was taken at a Sunflower Festival 2022 at KC Pumpkin Patch in Kansas City, Kansas. The air smelled like BBQ, the sunflowers were thriving, and I briefly believed I had been chosen by the photography gods when someone dropped a camera filter. I found it and celebrated. And then…immediately lost it. This skeleton perfectly…