Hello and Welcome to the official Living Irradiance Photography website!
This adventure has been many years in the making. The phrase "started at the bottom and worked up" seems to truly capture my photography endeavors. Never in a million years did I think my obsession with film and polaroids (then later digital cameras), as a child, would turn into an obsession with light, imaging, and the study of optical sciences.
When I introduce my business name, many people ask why I picked it, so here goes:
Irradiance is the flux of radiant energy per unit area.
Basically, it's the measured change of light through an observed surface.
To live is to use and expel energy.
And photography is the capturing of a fleeting moment.
From this, I got the name.
Living Irradiance Photography literally means capturing the energy changing in the small moments of life.
A little more about my photography experience and philosophy:
For starters we probably should go to the beginning.
As a child, I was captivated by the art of capturing moments to remember them later. I love looking back through photos and taking comfort in the memories that I forget about in my day to day activities.
In life we get so caught up in the struggles of the now that we lose sight of how much good we live through.
But I digress.
As I grew up taking photos of everything, I became known as "the girl with the camera". I have used more cameras than I care to list, some were incredible, some I'm not exactly sure how I was able to get a photo from them. "The girl with the camera" grew up and turned into "the girl studying Electrical and Optical Engineering". That being said, I've spent quite a bit of time as a student of light- not enough time, but time indeed.
I've shot Canon, Nikon, Elixir, Sony, Olympus; various smartphones of all shapes and sizes; CCD cameras that are driven by a desktop; film, digital, slr, hybrid, dslr, mirror-less, and I'm not even sure I can remember the rest. I've taken cameras apart, put them back together, and have had an incredible time learning something in the process. But I can say that I have never used a wet-plate camera. I've seen them, photographed them, drooled over them, but have never used one. So, that one is definitely on the bucket list.
When I finally got my very own DSLR in the winter of 2016, my obsession exploded, so did my opportunities.
I've taken photos all over the country and have had the opportunity to photograph in rather historic locations such as the Historic Route 66 monument, on the grass field of the Pendleton Round-up Arena, during the Molalla Buckeroo Rodeo, to name a few. I've done portrait work, weddings, community events, parties, rodeos, soccer games, basketball games, and photograph pretty much anything else that I find inspiring. I love meeting people and helping them to document their life story- even if just a glimpse of it.
I'm not an expert, that's for certain. However, since life is about learning and experiencing from each other, then hopefully when you work with me not only will we build great memories together, but you will be able to think a little differently after experiencing the adventure that is, Living Irradiance Photography.