I became a mother exactly 4 months before becoming a professional photojournalist and six months after buying my very first camera. I was obsessed with the life growing inside of me, and couldn't wait to photograph every second of her existence. Angelina Nicole was born February, 2004, and my life as a mother and full time picture taker began. In the beginning I shot everything from bugs, rusty old cars, and flowers to random shadows that danced around my home, but nothing was photographed more than my little baby girl. Her smiles, her tears, her fat little baby fingers and...more
