Hi, I'm KaylA!

When Mary Jo Olson handed me my high school diploma on that June day, it might as well have been my plane ticket, because I was going places. Wherever my newspaper needed me would be my home, and I would do the one thing I new how to do: Tell stories of conflict and hope in the face of tension. I had immersed myself in all parts of print journalism, especially writing and photography. Inspired by the great photojournalist of the time, I consumed their images and learned what they did in terms of lighting, composition, angles, and more; I was obsessed in knowing what they did to create the great, everlasting, iconic images that became a part of history’s cannon. It was my greatest goal in life.

But, as life tends to do, it had other plans.

I was asked in middle school what I wanted to do when I grew up...and I said I wanted to just connect to people and tell their story. I wanted to travel, make strangers friends, and see the light they held inside and then share that brightness with the world.

I now get to do just that. For you.

"I was obsessed in knowing what they did to create the great, everlasting, iconic images that became a part of history’s cannon. It was my greatest goal in life."

Also, as life does, it comes full circle.

After ten years as a high school educator, I stepped back through a door I thought was closed. Journalism came back into my life. Armed with a Masters of Arts in Communication, I was again challenged and prepared to tell the stories that would become history, but with a twist: It is now your legacy I document. The tension I seek is that from every tear, smile, laugh, and moment of love on your wedding day. 

And I wouldn't have it any other way.