Growing up in a humble household didn’t allow for jetsetting trips, worldly experiences or culinary journeys. One year while all my friends were away at the annual high school week-long ski trip, I desperately picked up web coding to distract myself. With a phone dial-up cable line (whatever did we do in those days??) and a basics in HTML guide, I set out to create my own personal space that allowed me to get away to my web paradise whenever I wanted. Over the next decade, my sites slowly evolved from a random collection of moving Sailor Moon .gifs to (dare I say, mature?) layouts featuring writings, photos and other random musings. After a five-year hiatus, I’ve decided that there’s no better time than now to do all that you want. So here we go!

My dad was an avid photographer who slowly gave up his full-time passion for a more stable job. But throughout my childhood (and still today), he was never without his Nikon SLR. Always snapping away at landscapes, street scenes, faces, personal emotions and everything in between, I learned to appreciate the beauty in a split second of life and to envision the stories behind the shadows, light, expressions. In high school, my aunt gave me one of her old SLR cameras to play with and I started documenting my own collection of stills. Today, although still a novice, it is one of my greatest passions. All photos on wanderandlust.com were taken by me (except the ones of me; those were taken by innocent bystanders or patient friends.) Please send me a note if you’d like to own one (or a few!) for your collection.