I am going into the 6th year of the Marketing/Advertising profession. I mostly model for fun, but do most of my published work work for Panache Magazine. It is interesting how the two go hand-in-hand. Having experience in the two worlds has given me insight and a better understanding of both sides of the camera.

I began my marketing career at RadioShack's headquarters in downtown Fort Worth. While in college at Northwood University (a private business university in Cedar Hill, Texas), I had to write a business plan. Wrote one for a snow cone business... Fire and Ice. After punching numbers and looking at the mark-ups and profits... I took the PLUNGE! I opened my own snow cone stand, Fire and Ice. There is where I met a loyal customer and photographer Randy Cohen. Randy asked me if I had done any modeling... asked me to come into the studio for a test shoot. At the time I was not interested at all! He brought me some samples of his work and asked me to think about it. A week later, he asked again, and I agreed. The initial shoot was not the best to say the least, but he did call me back about two weeks later. The rest is history... I have now worked with 5+ different photographers and shot over 8,000 images.

Working with Randy has been an amazing experience. His work from Playboy is a classic example that shows his range from conservative to risqué.

Another photographer that gathered my name from a friend of mine, Dan Lafell has outstanding work as well. He really pushes the water to the edge in his work. Though it is intimidating initially... going back and looking at how my creative box was expanded it is a good feeling.

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