Hi again // A Resurgence

Well, if you hadn’t noticed, I haven’t posted on my blog in almost 3 years….whoops.

So where have I been? Oof, long story.

Let me give you the basics:

At the end of 2019, my business was at an all-time high—I was shooting 25ish weddings a year, traveling constantly, and feeling mostly settled in my work-life balance. I had honed in on my aesthetic and I was finally seeing my brand identity attract the clients I wanted to shoot with. I’ll admit, I was exhausted a fair amount of the time, but I still felt like my business was in a place I was deeply proud of.

Then, as we all know, 2020 happened.

In my last post at the end of that hellish year, I lamented over lost business, slow days, and a lack of motivation to share my work consistently. I was floundering, wondering if work would ever pick up again, and—at some point—I actually thought about whether I wanted it to pick up in the same way again. I began realizing that maybe the Bay Area wasn’t the place I felt happiest, and maybe life could look different—and that would be a good thing for me. My relationship was sadly not in the best shape, and I was feeling the burden of some lost opportunities in my early life. So I began thinking about how I could change things, and where I could go from there.

One thing I knew is that I always wanted to live abroad. It had been my dream for literal years and I realized maybe this was my chance to make it happen. I also thought maybe I wanted to go back to school, get some further education in my field, and maybe that could lead to new career opportunities. Enter the part where I sat online researching universities abroad obsessively, until I finally found one that fit my goals and aspirations.

I applied and was accepted to a university in Berlin, Germany, with a career-focused photography program for international students. Then, I moved across the ocean, with four suitcases and a hell of a lot of determination to make this experience matter.

Now, I won’t bore you with detailing the last two years of that experience (the good, the bad, the in-between—feel free to check out my Instagram for all that), but needless to say, it was the best decision I could have made for myself. I have made incredible friends, traveled beautiful places, I joined a studio, I fell in love with someone wonderful, and I am slowly but surely making a life for myself here in Europe.

It’s not easy—in fact, it’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever done—but I am so happy here, and so ready for the future and what’s ahead of me. I want to begin blogging again, starting with some of my favorite shoots from last year (both client and personal work). I’m a bit self-conscious getting started again, so feel free to drop a comment to encourage me ;)

More to come soon. Ciao!

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