About Me

Laurie has led a very multifaceted life. She started hiking when she was young with her Game Warden father who instilled in her a profound love and respect for nature that exhibits itself throughout her work. She was driving farm tractors before she was old enough to have a drivers license and in high school she started rock climbing. She got her first camera, a hand-me-down Brownie, when she was 11 years old. In her late teens, she purchased her first new camera, an Olympus OM2n SLR that she bought because it had a metal body that would withstand the bumps and bruises of her active lifestyle.

Her first job after leaving college was as a cartographer in the last operating logging camp in Western Washington. She later worked as draftsman, a surveyor, a Public Works inspector and a Development Review Engineer. When the digital age of cameras’ arrived, she did slide shows for her family who clamored for her DVDs. A photography teacher once told her to quit writing descriptions on her pictures, yet she would continue to write on her photographs and ignore his advise for another 20 years. Some of the pictures in her portfolio were taken with older digital camera’s. A few of them have been digitized from negatives from her old Olympus camera.

Laurie, whose father called her ‘the gypsy child’, has been living full time in a solar panel laden RV since 2004. She calls herself ‘The Yankee Photographer’ because her significant other is Canadian and Yukon Canadians tend to call anyone from south of the 49th parallel ‘Yankees’. She has one daughter and two beautiful grandchildren plus several stepchildren and step-grandchildren. She now spends half of the year living off the grid in a small log cabin in the Yukon Territory of Canada and other half of the year traveling in the United States pursuing her passion of photography, writing short essays and spoiling her cats!!!