hi, friend!

I’m known as Ju by most of my friends and family, most easily recognized by my hyena laugh and out-of-pocket quips, and rarely seen not wearing Lululemon, Kimes, or Carhartt.

Full-time livestock feed sales rep, part-time equine creative, always running off of a whole lot of peach Red Bull and a little bit of Vyvanse. Textbook extroverted introvert - I’ll bounce back and forth between yapping your ear off and hiding away from the world with a coffee in hand and Grey’s Anatomy reruns playing.

Horses and photography have been my two overarching loves in life from a young age - I swung a leg over a horse for the first time at six years old, and picked up a camera at nine. Nearly two decades later, I’ve had the privilege of travelling all throughout the Maritimes getting to have the most incredible people and the coolest horses in front of my camera.

My first horse, Rosie, came along when I was ten - a little grey Arabian mare with a larger than life personality. I was incredibly lucky to have spent twelve years of my life with her, from elementary school, awkward teenage years, starting my business in high school, weekends home in university, and navigating post-grad life until her passing in 2023 at 26 years old.

Along with her, I was incredibly lucky to have found heart horses in my two long-time partners in the reining pen, Stella and Jersey. Those three mares shaped me in my formative years. They taught me, they made me work for what I wanted, they took me to victories, they humbled me. Most people consider themselves lucky to get one really special horse in their lifetime. I don’t think I’ll ever have a word for how I feel about having three by the time I was 20.

The hardest thing I’ve ever had to navigate was losing all three of them in the span of less than two years. The compounding grief led to me stepping back from my business for the better part of a year so I could heal and process it all. That same grief led me to realizing this is why I do what I do.

I constantly look back on photos of my girls by my incredibly talented friends in the industry, and every single time, I never think of how much I paid for them, or the stress of trying to get a grey AND a palomino sparkling clean, or panicking over what to wear. I only think of how grateful I am to have them… and that’s what continues to drive me forward.