Aside from being a photographer, Andrea is a wife and mother of two children - so it's safe to say she understands how chaotic life can be. She likes to call it a "happy chaos".  She is an avid podcast and audio book listener, will never pass up dinner at a Mexican Restaurant and thinks life is too short to always have the same hair (although the pink mohawk is by far her favorite).

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Andrea has always been drawn to all things creative, but the reason she appreciates photography the most of all artforms is for its ability to freeze a moment in time. The way that you can look at an image and feel something - that is what she finds truly special about the visual arts.

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Andrea's path to picking up a camera is a sentimental and emotional one - it began with the loss of her mother when she was 19. She realized one day sifting through a tote bag full of loose-printed photographs that she had very little photos of her mother to remember her by. 

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"I found myself every so often sifting through the same tote bag, hoping to find more photos that I had yet to see of her - when one day I found it. A photo of her, unprepared, mid laugh and in all her glory. The first thing I saw were her deep smile lines and pronounced crows feet and I felt a deep content that I hadn't felt in over a decade. In that moment, I swear I could hear her laughter and it was like she was still here again. I treasure that photo of my mom, and especially cherish the smile lines and crows feet ever present in it - those were signs of her laughter and smiles and I would give anything to see them again!"

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Andrea hopes that her clients will be kind to themselves at every stage of life - no matter how they feel about their physical appearance. It's so important for her to let her clients know that they are living a life worth documenting. Your loved ones might only have a tote bag full of photographs to sift through some day to see your smile, so give them more than one to find.

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