Hi, I am Clarisa

I moved to Northwestern Ontario in 2015, chasing a cute boy back to his home town, fingers and toes crossed I wasn't gonna be running back home with my tail between my legs. Well here we are 8 years, multiple businesses and two beautiful babies later.

Clearly I'm a bit of a dream chaser I love love and every single messy beautiful in-between moment that life hands us.

I remember i was in grade 5 when i got my first camera for Christmas I was so ecstatic that i screamed at my mom and told her i hated her all well crying and hugging her, a weird reaction i know. But I don't remember a moment after where I didn't have a camera, my mom continued to replace for years every single camera I broke or dropped in the dugout (sorry mom)

Thank god she did, cause fast forward a few years and that would become my coping mechanism, my creative outlet, my way of being a stay at home mom well providing for my family, my way of chasing love, witnessing and documenting the fairy tails, the goods, the bads.

Life can be hard, so fricken hard, But some how I think we always come back to what we know, places or things in life that made us feel safe. I guess that's what I did. Shortly out of school the camera i was using got stolen out of our apartment in the city and we just didn't have the money to replace it. So i let the dream go and never looked back.

After my second daughter i was going a bit stir crazy, looking to find myself outside of being a mom again. My husband bought me a camera and I knew I had to jump headfirst into photography then or I

never would, So that's exactly what I did. This also turned out to be a great way for me to finally meet people in my community. Now were going into our third year of business and the future of it looks so bright, this is actually what i get to do for a living, how cool!!

Man I'm so happy I didn't listen to a single voice that told me I couldn't be an artist when I grew up, cause here we are and I'm so fricken grateful this is my life that on some whim you may choose me. Choose to pull me into your life and allow me to glimpse even a moment of it.

Not sure if that's what your suppose to write in these things, not sure if you learned anything about me but that's what felt right to me-Thanks for making it to this point!