
Having grown up in a rural environment in S. Texas, Holly developed her love of the natural world on countless rides into the wilderness on her horse. She would spend hours exploring the endless pastures and acres around her childhood home and tromping around in her cowboy boots from sun up to sun down. She moved to California where she received her B.S. and M.S. degrees and developed and ran a family business with her late husband while also becoming a mother of three sons.
She picked up a camera years ago to photograph her children and hasn't looked back. Her passion for the natural world is seen in her breathtaking and awe-inspiring compositions, which not only please the eye, but speak to the heart. She loves traveling to Jackson Hole, Yellowstone and Yosemite and has enjoyed international trips to Nepal, Peru, Ecuador, Europe, Iceland, Patagonia, and Southeast Asia in the last several years. A dream trip to Tanzania is scheduled for August 2026 to photograph the great migration!
She calls Central Oregon her home because here, she is surrounded by the beauty that inspires her every day to get up to capture more outstanding image. Her work has been featured several times by National Geographic and has won recognition from the National Parks Service and Grand Teton National Park.
Most recently, after having undergone a joint replacement and slowing down a bit, she tried her hand at pottery and fell in love with a new medium. Learning that she loves to create the details of nature that she captures with her camera, in clay, her works bring to life the memories of those nature journeys!