Writing an about me is the absolute hardest part of putting together a website. It always makes me self conscious; I can’t figure out how to write about myself without sounding pretentious or egotistical or really just plain lame! So instead of the same boring bio about how I love photography and I’ve been shooting since I was a kid and I can’t imagine doing anything else (all of which is true but repetitive) how about a list – bio info, random trivia, pertinent facts.
- Born: Dallas, Texas, January 1968 (you do the math).
- Sign: That makes me an Aquarius, if you follow that kind of thing.
- Married: Was once, but not any more. My XH and I are still best of friends, though!
- Kids: None, but lots of honorary nieces and nephews.
- Pets: 2 cats – Maggie & Phoebe, 2 gray tabby sisters.
- Travel: YES! Anywhere, anytime. I’ve visited 32 states and 8 countries so far.
- Languages: Shamefully, only English fluently. But I can recite Humpty Dumpty in Afrikaans and the first stanza of the Canterbury Tales in Old English.
- First real photography job: Assisting a fantastic wedding photographer in Portland, OR. He helped me take a hobby and make it a real profession.
- Tattoos: One – a blue and turquoise dragonfly on my neck below my right ear. I will get another someday.
- Life goal #1: To visit every state in the US (I’m a little over halfway there)
- Equipment: Nikon all the way!
- Favorite drinks: black coffee, red wine, a really cold dirty martini.
- Education: University of Texas in Austin, BA in History/Anthropology
- Favorite food: Anything seafood – crab, shrimp, lobster, oysters, it’s all good.
- Life goal #2: To have every room in my house be clean at the same time.
- Favorite song: Best pop song ever – Tainted Love by SoftCell
- Favorite color: Blue – all shades of it
- Earliest memory: Sitting on the kitchen counter, watching my dad make pancakes for breakfast.
- Movie that blew my mind: Brazil.
- Life goal #3: To actually read all the books on my extremely long book list!
- Car: 2002 Acura TL – dark gray
- Hobbies: cooking, running, gardening, reading, photography
If you want to know more, ask me. If it’s something interesting, I’ll add it to the list!
Oh, and about my business name: people ask me how to pronounce it, what it means, why I chose it. When I began thinking about what to name my business, I knew I wanted it to be unique. I didn’t want the cliche’d “perfect moment” or “treasured images”. I didn’t want something as bland and boring as “My Name Photographer”. I wanted something that was appropriate for a photography business, yet still personal to me. I wound up tapping both my Irish heritage and my love of history and mythology and choosing “Solais” (so-LASS) which means “light” in Irish Gaelic.
