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About Me
Get to know me.
It’s important for you to find the right photographer. To know if I am the right photographer for you, you need to get to know me.
Life is a journey. I’m from Iowa, and home is a small, picturesque, Dutch-American town 40 minutes SE of Des Moines called Pella. It’s tulips, windmills, and canal create a delightful blend of Dutch-inspired beauty. Small town Iowa has its charms: the embodiment of a warm and welcoming atmosphere where friendliness makes up the fabric of the community; it's even considered impolite to not exchange a greeting and acknowledge a passing stranger. It’s in Pella that I learned photography and started to make money on the side as I was hired by businesses and farmers.
I originally started as a photographer by getting into drone photography. My successes there led me to look at traditional photography, and Pella was a place literally blossoming with beauty. I spent hours almost every day taking thousands of photos throughout all the seasons. My tulip photos—often taken from an intimate low angle that featured windmills in the background—were well received, and some were featured in publications.
The past few years I have lived in New York in the NYC metropolitan area. I have now returned to Pella, to the land of tulips and windmills, and am glad to be back home.
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