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Click Photography – About Christine

A little background on Christine

 

It's funny how life turns out. I fell madly, deeply in love with the boy next door. We quickly became teenage parents (Whoops!). We were too young, too poor, too scared, but luckily still too in love to care. We found ourselves just crazy enough to go for round two, so we had our daughter. Somewhere in all that, I went to college...but just like Bruce Willis in Die Hard...I was the classic case of the right place, wrong time. There were a whopping ZERO jobs out there for what I studied. However...A couple years before finishing school, I got invited to a friend's wedding who didn't have a photographer. They asked me to bring my camera. I had NO IDEA at the time...but I had just started my wedding photography adventure. So skipping forward...here I was after college...still too young, too poor, too scared, too in love to care...and started taking too many pictures. Obsessed with people and pictures!!! Slowly taking my hobby from a few portrait sessions, to deciding to make it a full time career in 2007. I've worked hard, played hard, stayed hungry to learn and evolve, built a business I'm proud of, and have always provided a service I believe in. I'm no longer too young, too poor, or too scared...but too grateful for bad timing. It's funny how life turns out.

My life adventure had a twist in 2014 when my hubby transitioned into a firefighter-paramedic career. His life adventure sounded exciting and rewarding as he quite literally helped save peoples' lives. I decided to dip my toes into such adventures myself. I became an EMT in 2014, Paramedic in 2015, Firefighter in 2016, and a Registered Nurse in 2021.

Sound crazy? Yup. It is. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

Currently, I still love doing it all, so I have hereby titled myself as "Semi-Retired" from photography. Due to the need for creating a balance of work and personal time, I am no longer accepting new clients. I have gained several AMAZING clients over the years, whom I still photograph on a fairly regular basis and I want to make time to keep them in my life.

FUN FACTS

Here's a few more things about me. :)

  • I am an optimistic realist. Sort of a "hope for the best, plan for the worst" type of girl.
  • I'm a firm believer in living life without regret. I fear looking back and wishing I'd done this or that. Sometimes I put a lot of thought and planning into my decisions...other times, I just have to jump into that cold pool without too much thinking or I won't get in.
  • While I am now a full-time registered nurse, I still work part-time on the ambulance because I love my fellow firefighter and paramedic crew and enjoy working with them by serving the community!
  • I try to stay fit and healthy...but I can also throw a healthy fit for some chocolate chip cookies.
  • I'm married. My husband, Matt, proposed to me twice, I turned him down twice (only because we were the cliche teenage pregnancy story). So the final proposal was by me to him in 2004. Crazy man...actually said yes.
  • I'm the oldest of 4 children...so naturally, I'm my mom's favorite (she tells us all that though...can't believe anything that woman says.)
  • I have 2 children...Tate (20yrs) was born a grumpy old man, wakes up before his alarm like clockwork every morning, is a good kid, makes good grades, and has the best one-liners that have me cracking up harder than any ab workout. Niki (17yrs) is currently flipping daily between GOTH and outdoorsy, gardner. She's my sunshine....she's self-entertaining, obsessed with books and annoys the crap out of us about going to the library ALL the time, and will literally dig through the trash to create some crazy-awesome art project. They make my heart full.
  • When I was a young kid, I used to be bilingual and speak a form of Spanish called Castilian, so that I could translate for my great-grandmother. I moved to Texas for a year, and when I came back my Spanish was gone. They say it will come back to me, but after 6 years of High School and College Spanish classes...I'm going to call bullshit. :)
  • I love listening to all kinds of music, but never keep track of artists or song names. It drives Matt mad!
  • I only have one style of dancing...and it's pretty much just jumping up and down and throwing my hands up in the air. It's also the BEST calf workout in the world.
  • I have Apple computers, but have an Android phone....so please, for the love of the world...don't include me in a group text. I will never be able to escape.
  • I am a Cancer, born June 25th.
  • A handful of times a year I’m thrown into a laughing fit that takes me a long time to escape. Tears rolling, belly hurting, face sore, snot bubbles bursting out nostrils, bladder hard to control...that type of laughing fit. Embarrassingly enough, it’s usually around the wrong crowd of people, or in a professional environment...which leads people to wonder if I’m on something. To clarify...I’m drug free. Just have a defective giggle box.
  • For some bizarre reason, half of my friends or clients are named Sarah, Jennifer, or Ashley.
  • One of my favorite quotes: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

 

  • One of my other favorite quotes: “I’m too old for this shit.” - Roger Murtaugh (Lethal Weapon)