I'm a proud mom, a sister, a daughter and a friend. I love photography, cooking, writing and traveling, often all at the same time. I am not a professional photographer, far from it in fact, but I do find it inspiring and it is one of my favorite hobbies. In my photos I try to capture anything and everything that shows the beauty of life, and makes me smile, hope and dream. That’s my way to stop and smell the roses – capturing those fleeting moments of space and time that inspire me, and make me appreciate the fact that I am alive and blessed to experience them.

I admire the work of photographers, painters and writers who have the heart and strength to capture the heartbreaking realities of today’s world with all the hunger, and bloodshed, and destruction around us, but unfortunately for now I am not one of them. Capturing powerful images of the darkness that has consumed our lives and actually making a difference is one thing that, while I may never be able to do, I most certainly respect and aplaud. 

As for me, I like to capture the beauty, the love, the hope and smiles, for those are the things we fight and live, and die for. 

My photos are my escape - my personal fairy tale I would like to share with you. I believe that the more of us live with a hope for a better future and appreciate God's beautiful creations all around us, the less we will be capable of hurting each other or destroying natural resources. In this age and time it may be naive to believe in the goodness of the human race, but I have to hope. If we could find a way to walk on the moon, there has to be a way to simply get along with each other and find the time to stop and smell the roses - why not take a picture of them while you’re at it ;)