Hi, and thank you for visiting my page!
I'm Lisa Christine, the one behind the camera. I spend a lot of time there capturing the ordinary in my own, every day life. I began my journey of memory keeping in 3rd grade as a journalist and became a scrapbooker in middle school, recording the details of my life with a pen and pictures. Simply put, I'm a hoarder of still memories. I'm deathly afraid of forgetting. Forgetting how something looked at a certain moment in time. I freeze whatever I can so I that I can come back to that exact place and time and relive it.
My parents instilled in me an admiration for a simplistic life. They were never much into material things (aside from classic cars and antique collections). And although I steered a bit as a teenager with a slight shopping addiction and newfound love for fashion, I have rerouted myself back to where I came from; pausing at random to take in all of the beauty that lies on God's creation and realizing that life is so full when you can find beauty in the smallest, priceless moments. Instead of feeling as full as my bag was after the Victoria's Secret Seminannual Sale, my heart fills up on the smell of baby skin and a Friday night at home with my family with a purring cat in my lap. Things don't make you happy, relationships and moments together do.
When I grow up in another life (hehe), I want to sing and play acoustic guitar in a cafe. I want to be a stay at home mom who has time to attend fitness classes and makes it 'big' with her Etsy shop and becomes 'famous' on social media as a mommy blogger. I want to grow all my own vegetables and live off my own land so that the food industry can stop poisoning my food with chemicals. I want to be a newborn care specialist and lactation consultant. I want to be a horse exerciser and volunteer for animal shelters in my spare time. I want to do a whole lot...and I do. I thrive off of chaos as much as I love simplicity. Contradictory, I know.
My reality is that aside from my obsession with photographs, I am a 30 year old middle school science teacher with two master's degrees in education, who absolutely loves her job. I'm a mother to a spunky little three year old, Clayton Paul. I have a wonderful husband who keeps me laughing and two dog-like rescue cats, Max and Gabby. I am a river rat and couldn't picture my life anywhere but on the Fox. I'm a volunteer BFPC in the maternity floor at a nearby hospital, I just begun share-boarding a horse, and I'm a huge animal lover and spent my childhood in my grandma's pool, painting my nails with car paint in the back of my dad's dealership, and taking riding lessons with my mom. I love what I do and where I'm at, yet I'm always discovering new interests and digging into something new.
I've always had a camera. From my pink polaroid to the treasured Minolta that my grandma gifted me for Christmas in the fourth grade. I bought my first DSLR my senior year of college in '08 and began my hobby of newborn/infant portraiture. After my son was born, I sought out an online community of photo moms and began daily photo projects and started taking classes offered by highly regarded professional photographers like the wonderful Courtney Slazinik and Jessica Weinstock from Jessica Weinstock Photography who got me addicted my prime lens and helped me believe in myself a little more as a photographer with her own personal story.
There is nothing on this planet as beautiful as motherhood and I love capturing everything about it from pregnancy to nursing to multitasking in the kitchen with a baby on your hip.
That's me in a nutshell!
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