Welcome! I'm Cora, and photography is in my DNA.

I was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest by a professional photographer Dad and an artist and elementary teacher Mom. Our family adventures in and around Puget Sound instilled in me a love and appreciation for Washington's untamed beauty – a gift my husband and I are passing on to our daughters.

Growing up with a wedding and architectural photographer for a Dad meant my sister and I often had a camera lens pointed at our faces. It wasn't long before I caught the photography bug and took my place behind the camera. Photography jumped from hobby to full-blown obsession with the purchase of our family's first digital camera, a first generation Nikon Coolpix. The rest is history.

During the pandemic, my violin performance schedule went from 60 to zero overnight. I still taught violin lessons over Zoom, and one day I casually asked one of my students, a graduating senior, what she was doing for the rest of the day. She said that since there wasn't a graduation ceremony, her mom was going to take cap and gown photos with her iphone at a park with her brother and sister (triplets!).  I could not comprehend being a mom to triplets and missing out on such an important milestone as seeing them graduate, so I said, "tell your mom that is ridiculous, I am going to take your photos!" I adored it and decided I wanted to take more cap and gown photos, so I created a Facebook group called The Cap and Gown Project to provide free graduation photos for anyone that wanted them. When it was over, I wanted to keep doing it full time. And here we are! 

I am passionate about capturing moments - big and small - macro and micro. From four-legged family members to newborn babies.

Photography is a form of meditation for me. Seeing the world through a lens forces me to slow down and soak it all in. My care and approach to capturing images is the same, whether I'm documenting a trip to Europe with my family, or an afternoon walk on a local beach.

Fun Facts:

• I attended Stadium High School and Pacific Lutheran University. Go Tigers and Lutes!
• I married my best friend and high school sweetheart Justin in 2007.
• We lived in Federal Way, WA with our daughter Mera for twelve years when we decided to sell our house, store our furniture, and move to St. John in the Virgin Islands for one amazing year in 2017.
• Currently we live in Gig Harbor, WA with our rescue dog Ollie, cat Quimby, and a mid-life surprise addition in Oct 2019, our daughter Linden!
• My entire personality is currently Proud Parent: my daughter Mera was recently accepted to Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design for a 5-year dual degree program, one the most difficult dual degree programs in the world; they only admit 15 students per year! She is double concentrating in economics and art history at Brown and painting at RISD. 
• In addition to photography, I'm still a professional violinist with a studio of private students and a full performance schedule with the Rainier Symphony and occasionally with Tacoma Opera.
• My family loves discovering hidden gems in and around the Pacific Northwest.
• I foster kittens for the Tacoma Humane Society; after helping raise over 100 of them, we finally foster-failed one in May 2024 when he nearly died as a tiny baby. I gave him subcutaneous fluids 4x a day (a feat since I am a needle-phobe!) and he survived, so I had to keep him. His name is Quimby.
• I love gardening! It's a borderline obsession. My beloved 1/2 garden was on the Gig Harbor Garden Tour in June 2023 and over 1,000 people walked through!