About Mara

Two feet on the ground, one eye in the sky.

I started with a borrowed camera and a curiosity for how places look when you change your vantage point. Fifteen years later that curiosity is the whole job.

My work moves between weddings, portraits, and landscapes shot from a drone hovering three hundred feet up. Each discipline sharpens the others — the patience of portraiture, the patterning eye of aerial work, the instinct for light that ties it all together.

"A photograph should tell you where you are before it tells you what happened."

I’m based on the coast but travel constantly — client shoots, personal projects, and the occasional excuse to fly somewhere new just to see how it looks from above.

These days I split my time between commissioned portrait sessions, editorial landscape work, and drone cinematography for brands who want their story told from an angle nobody else is using.

Perspective

Why the air matters

Ground-level photography tells you who someone is. Aerial photography tells you where they stand in the world — the shape of a coastline, the geometry of a farm, the scale of a wedding venue seen whole.

I fly with the same discipline I bring to a portrait session: scout the light, wait for the right moment, keep the frame honest.