Hi there!

I Am Gretchen

As you may have guessed I'm a photographer. I live in Terrytown, just across the CCC from New Orleans. I have a married daughter who has moved to another state with her husband. She left me with her 3 cats. I also have two of the sweetest Goldendoodles, Fred and his dad Jaxx.

I have always had a camera in my hand. My first camera was given to me when I was 8 years old, the night before our 3rd-grade class field trip to the zoo. I have had many cameras since then and lots of photographs in boxes, albums, and even a suitcase.

I have always been "the photographer". My daughter and her friends called me the crazy camera lady. I was always taking their pictures. I loved photographing my family, my friends, and just about anything and everything that was in front of my camera.

In college, I wanted to be a history teacher, but I quickly figured out it was not for me. I switched my major to Art-Photography. Life got in the way and I never finished college. I still took pictures, even a few friends' weddings. Never really learning it, taking it seriously, until my daughter was in college.

That suitcase full of photographs is my grandmother's, my family's memories, our history that I would never know if it wasn't for those photographs. Let me help you preserve your family's History!