About Sharon

Hello, I’m Sharon. Welcome!

For as long as I can remember I have had a passion for photography.  

My passion began in Oregon during my sophomore year of high school. I had an incredible teacher who taught me everything about film photography.  I learned to roll exposed film into metal canisters under a desk, mimicking the motion of processing film in the blackness of a darkroom. I used old rubber tongs to dip light-sensitive photo paper into chemical baths to expose the image and used enlarger machines with crumpled up old filters to achieve a unique effect on the paper.  It was the real deal - all aspects of black and white film photography and I soaked up every minute of it.

It wasn’t long until I realized that capturing people in my images made my heart sing.  A friend’s laughter, a sincere hug or that look of determination crossing a finish line.  People just doing everyday ordinary human things was my jam. Back then the closest thing to categorizing this love was Photojournalism.  That’s what the line on my college application read and that was to be my path for the next four years in college. The powers that be thought otherwise and that was the end of that dream.  

Fifteen years later when I was pregnant with my first child, a coworker mom gave me a great piece of advice that would change my life forever.  She encouraged me to buy a DSLR camera to photograph my baby so I wouldn’t miss any of those beautiful moments with him. Now I can’t put the camera down. Capturing a candid slice of a special moment with your loved ones and who they are at that point, is truly a passion of mine.  

They say if you want to know what someone fears losing, watch what they photograph. We photograph so we don’t lose those precious years and moments with our children, our friends or our parents.  I truly believe photographs allow us to document, remember and feel those moments.

Sharon lives in Sausalito, California with her husband and two young children.