About

hello!

This is Brie. I got into photography thanks to my mom–she was an avid scrapbooker and gave me a scrapbook of my own. Of course, I needed to have photos to put into the scrapbook, so I had to get a camera too (a disposable one, of course. I was a pretty young kid at the time).

Although I don’t scrapbook anymore, my photography is colored by my scrapbooking roots. I like to focus on everyday things and everyday moments. The “common” things. My photography is largely a celebration of the mundane and a celebration of the small, of things that people might overlook (sometimes literally–I’ve taken a photo of a plant about the size of a fingernail before!)

Most of my photography is of plants. They never ask me to delete photos like people sometimes do, and they don’t run off like wildlife often does. They stay still, let me take as many photos as I like, and don’t complain! They’re my favorite subject to photograph 🙂

My photography also gets me outside, which is important to my mental health. I have bipolar disorder, and so I need to take my mental health very seriously. Photography helps me get outside and connect with the world in those moments when almost everything else can’t.

I hope my photos invoke feelings of hope, wonder, and optimism for you. They certainly do for me.

I started painting as a kid too, and have many fond memories of painting warhammer minis with my dad. Unfortunately, my perfectionism got in the way, and I stopped painting for years, until december 2023 when I took a class with Bobby Padilla of Roc Paint & Sip.

My paintings are all very textured and meant to be touched. I personally find them to be very calming (to both paint and touch), and I believe that texture is a great way for the visually impaired to interact with/experience art.