About Kept.

I take photography seriously, because we rely on it to capture the moments in our life that matter most.

I got into photography with a Nikon, shooting for my high school yearbook team. Manually exposing, developing, and curating 12 to 24 photos at a time. You had to be deliberate because every frame counted.

Compare that to today, where you have thousands of images on a flash drive or your mobile device. It's hard for me to delete any image of a loved one, but I've learned to be more selective. And once I've chosen those photos that I never want to lose, I want to be able to share them easily and know that they are kept safe.

Today, my joy is taking photographs of my family and sharing them with the people who care about them most. I learned the hard way what the online socials do to your originals. They compress your images, strip your metadata, and degrade your work to lower their cost burden — making it seem like you're getting more than you are. And everyone wants to monetize your data, your images, and your children without giving you a voice or a choice.

Kept was born from my own process. I wanted a way to upload my selects from Lightroom to secure storage that I controlled, so that fire or flood wouldn't destroy these heirlooms I've collected. Select my keeps, create an album, share it with clients or family. That's it. Gone are the days of dumping photos into a family group chat and hoping someone scrolls back far enough to find them. No more sharing images with a company that's deciding how your images should be shared.

Today, Kept lets you do the same. Create an album, share it with only the people you trust. They can collaborate with you, help you pick their favorites, and you can share that stream with only them. Whether you're a photographer sharing with clients or a parent sharing with grandparents, the idea is the same — your photos, your people, your terms.

Thanks for being part of my journey. If you find parts of Kept that help you share those important parts of your life, I would love to hear about it. I hope you find that this is where your memories are Kept.