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Hi, I'm Nicole

The photo you'll come back to is almost never the posed one

Here's what I've figured out after a lot of sessions: the image you'll return to years from now is rarely the one where everybody was looking at me, smiling on cue.

It's the in-between. Your kid burying their face in your neck. The look you and your partner catch when you think nobody's watching. The belly laugh that shows up two seconds after the meltdown.

That's the stuff. That's what I'm chasing every single time.

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MOM TO MOM

I come at all of this through presence

I'm a mom too... and honestly, presence is the whole lens I see through. I've meditated every single day since 2017, taught yoga for five years, and then had kids, which turned out to be the most beautiful, most demanding version of the practice I've ever done.

Nothing has taught me about staying present the way they have. Being fully down in the grass with them, watching them fall for a new toy or a bug or the way the light comes through the trees. All while feeling like I've never been busier in my life. I'm still learning it each and every day.

That's really what I'm after for you. Not the perfectly posed and polished, but the ordinary moments where you were actually in it — the ones you'll look back on and get pulled right back to exactly how it felt to be there.

MY WHY

The day it switched

I've been into photography for longer than I can remember.... I bought a DSLR in early high school, taught myself Photoshop and Lightroom back in the Myspace days (am I showing my age yet ha). But for years I carried it around feeling like an imposter, like I had the tools but gave myself no permission to jump fully into it.

Then one day it just clicked. My son was tearing up and down the hallway with our dog, both of them losing their minds bouncing off one another, all of us laughing so hard we couldn't stop. I was pregnant with my daughter at the time, and I turned to my husband and said,

"I feel nostalgic for right now."

I knew everything was about to change again. Another little person, a whole new version of us, again. And in that moment I wanted so badly to bottle that exact second; the sound of it, the way it looked mid run, and how it felt to be standing in the middle of it.

That's the whole reason I do this. I can't bottle time for you either, but I can hand you the next best thing: the ordinary, in-between moments you were fully present for. All so that years from now you can open them up and get pulled right back to how it all felt.

These seasons move so fast. Let's hold onto this one.

Let's work together