About me
I am a multi-faceted person… though I suppose we all are.
Honey! My first love. She was so happy toting me around.
My first love is horses, and I started riding at a really early age. Horses are a huge part of who I am so… you’re gonna see some pics of me with horses on this page.
I love horses and I also love so many other things in this life… the sunlace shadows on the wall… the whisper of the trees on a hot summer day…
I love words and language. I started learning languages in high school, where I took Spanish and German. Then in college, French and Russian. After college, more French, some HTML and CSS. Languages of a different sort.
At a show with Blue… would have been 12 here.
Music is another language of a different sort.
I started learning music as a child, the flute. Then choir in high school. Then piano, guitar, autoharp, mandolin, fiddle, in that order. Whatever instrument ends up in my hands, I try to play.
Playing is fun. See?
Photo of me and my old Arabian mare Negabask’s Fatima (GW Negabask x Allah’s Akasma). Photo by Mint Queen.
I picked up my first SLR camera in 1998, and became a professional photographer in 2011. I did it for 11 years. I learned an incredible amount and grew so much as a photographer and as a human. I built a whole business.
I think I was18 here!
But ultimately, what I loved about photography was taking and editing pictures. And being a business owner is more marketing and management and stress. Don’t get me wrong, I like those things (well not the stress), but not shouldering it all myself, and not 60 hour weeks. What’s that they say? Something like, it gets lonely at the top. So I got a job and started living the stress-less life. And it has been real nice. I shoot sometimes. Just what I want.
I’ve always been into visual arts and crafts. I painted for a while, made macrame wall hangings, made leather goods. I like to explore.
At 28, Fatima still gives me soft eyes, even though I’ve only seen her a handful of times in the last 15 years. It’s been so strange seeing her age so much faster than me. She now has gray hairs in her face!
I live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest - Portland, Oregon to be exact - with my two cats Cecilia and Buddy, and my mare, Bella. I have lived other places in the world, but there is no place like home. And home is wherever the heart is. And I guess my heart is in the Pacific Northwest.
My darling mare, SC Amirage (Bella), and me. We have been partners since 2010!
