For over two decades, I have dedicated my life to education, sharing knowledge, fostering curiosity, and nurturing growth in the classroom. But long before I became a teacher, I was a traveller with a camera, chasing light and landscapes across the world. Travel photography was my first creative love, and it taught me to see, really see, the world around me. Life, as it does, shifted my priorities. I set the camera aside to raise my children, trading distant horizons for the quieter, deeper adventure of family. But the natural world never stopped calling. When I returned to photography seriously, about twelve years ago, something had changed in me. The sweeping landscapes and bustling markets that once captivated me gave way to a more patient, more intimate kind of seeing. I turned my lens toward wildlife and I never looked back. The Boreal Forest, the last great forest on earth, captured my soul completely. It is a place where time slows, where the rhythms of nature take over, and where I feel a deep connection to something far greater than myself. My subjects, foxes, owls, bears, moose, and the elusive woodland caribou, may lack the exotic appeal of gorillas or elephants on the world stage, but they are no less extraordinary. My mission is to present the wildlife of the northern forest in fresh, emotionally resonant ways that demand attention, because these creatures deserve a voice, and I intend to give them one. That mission has taken me beyond Canada's borders as well. A journey to Africa to deepen my understanding of black and white photography opened unexpected doors, confirming that the skills I had developed shooting light in the Boreal Forest translated powerfully to entirely different landscapes and subjects. But the Boreal always calls me home, and it is here, in the cold and the quiet of the northern forest, where my heart and my purpose remain. My work has been recognized on the world's most prestigious stages. I have been shortlisted for Wildlife Photographer of the Year and Bird Photographer of the Year, won Nature's Best Backyards, earned a Bronze medal in the World Nature Photography Awards 2025, and been named a finalist for Nature Photographer of the Year. My images have graced the covers of Canadian Geographic and Nature's Best Photography Magazine, and have been featured in The Atlantic, Forbes, The Guardian, BBC, Popular Science, National Geographic España, and Outdoor Photography, among many others. In 2025, Canadian Geographic dedicated a two-page feature to my work in their Special Edition Best Wildlife Photography issue. I have been recognized in the North American Nature Photography Association Showcase multiple years running, and in 2023 was named one of Canada's top 16 wildlife photographers by Influencer Digest. Yet accolades have never been the point. I enter contests not for recognition, but to elevate the profile of Boreal wildlife, presenting them in ways that resonate with judges accustomed to the megafauna of Africa and the poles. Every placement, every publication, every cover extends the reach of the stories I am trying to tell. Conservation is the thread running through everything I do. I am a photography team member of the Canadian Conservation Photographers Collective, working alongside dedicated photographers across Canada to promote conservation and science education through powerful visual storytelling. I donate my work to organizations including 100 for the Ocean, and write a conservation column on threatened and endangered species and habitats for PhotoWILD Magazine, where my writing has explored the plight of loons, grizzlies, whooping cranes, and the vanishing grasslands. Woven through all of it is a book slowly taking shape, a long form love letter to the Boreal Forest, tracing its stories, its silences, and its struggles. At its heart is the woodland caribou, a species whose numbers continue to decline despite decades of conservation effort. It is a story that needs to be told. My greatest hope is that someone, somewhere, sees one of my images and feels what I feel standing in the forest at dawn, that this world is worth protecting, and that we are not yet too late.