hey friend

I’m Amanda

You may have assumed, and if you haven’t- let me tell you- I am a fireball. When I am passionate, or happy, or mad, or annoyed, you know. It’s very hard for me to hide my feelings. My friends describe me as a bubbly and open personality who has tenacity, resiliency, and strength. I like to say that I am an introverted-extrovert.

I have been a full time photographer for 14 years and have moved businesses three times now. I started in Florida in 2009, moved to Maryland in 2011, back to Florida in 2017, and landed here in California in May 2020. A whirlwind is a good way to describe it! So happy to have had such different areas to photograph such amazing clients and friends.

When I was a little girl, my favorite thing to do at my grandparents' home was to sift through photo albums that I would find in the closet. I would stare at faces of family and friends of the family that I never got to know or meet and wonder who they were and if their personalities matched their demeanor in the photo. Several years later when I started college as a Marine Biology major and subsequently quit that program, I left feeling a little lost as to what I should be doing.

Remembering the feeling I got looking at photos so many years before, I felt a tug at my heart and I wondered if I could be the maker of those images. To give a piece of wonder and a sense of time and feeling to those looking at them. Thus began my college career into photography and a couple years later, delving right into my own business. It’s not easy being a photographer or an entrepreneur in itself, but it’s a dream come true for me and that brings me overwhelming happiness.

Thanks for joining me in this dream!