IT's ME, Kristin

Just your average dog obsessing, design loving, plant growing, messy bun wearing, sleep loving, chai drinking, travel loving, photographer. I live tucked away on a 10 acre lot in Sisters, Oregon with my patient and loving husband, Aaron, who is an elementary school teacher. Cooking brunch is our specialty, just ask anyone who has ever stayed at our house. We love camping in our Airstream RV, lounging on the couch watching true crime, and playing a few rounds of cards.

My first experience with boudoir was shooting one of my best friends, and my second experience was actually my own. Back when my husband and I first met and were just friends, I got very sick. I lost a lot of weight, was unable to eat, and doctors could not tell me why I weighed a mere 90 pounds. It affected my job, my social life, and my ability to take care of my dogs. The symptoms eventually subsided after seeing a naturopath but I hated my frail body. I felt gross: my boney knees clanked together, my skin looked grey, and I did not look like the strong and confident woman that I felt I was.

That same friend that I shot her boudoir photos, encouraged me to let her photograph me. If I didn’t like the images after 5 minutes we could stop. I did not like that idea, at all, but I went with it and tried to trust the process. She was completely right, and that was the first time in months that I started to feel like myself. I looked at those photos with such gentler eyes. I saw things I thought were pretty: I liked my green eyes, I had a little bit of a butt, I had long feminine fingers, my pale skin looked supple and soft. That session was the turning point for me. It gave me the motivation to continue to get healthy and it made me truly believe I had made progress from those dark sickly days.

Being able to see myself at the different angles she was able to see was life changing, and I love being able to help women feel the way I did that day.  

Experience

I bought my first fancy camera just out of college and would tote it around on weekend adventures. My instagram feed became photos of the Oregon Coast, Europe, and the National Forest. My goal was to be a full time nature and architecture photographer. I figured the best way to do that would be to photograph people and use that money to get my prints in coffee shops and boutiques. Jokes on me, I’ve been photographing people ever since. I have been a photographer for 8 years but my boudoir career started 6 years ago. One of my best friends asked me to take photos of her as an anniversary gift to her husband and I won’t lie, I felt so uncomfortable going into the shoot. However, by the end of the shoot I absolutely loved it. Seeing how amazing she felt about herself was priceless, it was how I always saw her: strong, feminine, badass. Over the past 6 years, I have grown from renting studio spaces, to building a tiny 100 sq ft studio, to quickly growing into my current 700 sq ft studio. The evolution of my shooting spaces has been so fun and I love shooting boudoir just as much as I did that very first time.