Hi! I’m Melissa!

I’m so glad you’re here - I’m Melissa!

I am a full time wedding and portrait photographer based in Central Massachusetts (about an hour outside of Boston). I started my photography business in 2015, after leaving my 10+ year career in Higher Education (for which I hold a master’s degree). I decided to leave my prior career to be home with my children. I am a mother to three boys (which includes a set of identical twins). They are currently 14, 11 and 11.

In 2015, when I started my business, they were 5, 2.5 and 2.5. I had only had a handful of clients prior to 2015 and didn’t really have a business to speak of. I’ve had a passion for photography since I was a kid. I taught myself how to shoot in manual mode in 2011 on a Canon Rebel with a “nifty-fifty” lens.

I decided to take the three years I knew I would be at home with my kids and try to build a business. I had no idea what I was doing or how to do it, but I figured it out. I worked on it during nap times and after the boys went to bed until the early morning hours. I spent countless hours figuring out marketing, teaching myself lightroom and photoshop, improving my photography skills - you could say that I built the plane while I was flying it.

My goal was to be able to quit the part-time job I had to get after I left my full-time career to make ends meet and have my photography business take it’s place. In the fall of 2018, I put my two brand new kindergartner’s on the bus with their older brother and walked back into my home office and started working for myself - full time.

If you had told me, 8 years ago, that I would be full-time photographer, in my fourth year of making six figures in my business, traveling all over the country for weddings and sessions - I would have laughed at you and said “yeah right!”. It didn’t occur to me then what was possible - because I didn’t know what WAS possible.

My passion is working with photographers who want to start, grow or scale their own businesses. I have been creating and teaching photography education online, through 1:1 mentoring and in-person workshops for the past six years. I am so excited to be creating a community that will be a resource for professional photographers - those already established in their businesses, those that are looking to grow and (especially) those that are exploring what is possible for them and their dreams.

I am starting a series called "Making it Work" and it will be focused on teaching how to make ANY location and ANY lighting work for photos. You'll find me in random locations and in different types of light and I'll be sharing the behind-the-scenes of how to make it work for you and for your clients.  I am starting off with a video tutorial that shares what I look for when I arrive to new locations and my go-to app for how to work with the light you have available to you. I hope you enjoy!