Alice Rouse Photo

10/01/2024

Wish me luck picking favorites from this session with a favorite return client!!

02/07/2024

Are you all ready to hype up !? This woman right here is living the highest of highs while fighting a chronic disease and being a mom to two littles. I have known Rachel since she hired me for her first artist session 5 years ago! I’ve watched her persist and grow through having children and a lupus diagnosis. Now she is about to launch a massive (literally, these are huge paintings) body of work but her disease has landed her back in the hospital. I hope you all can take a few moments to visit her profile, check out her website and give her some love (maybe even buy a piece!?). Rachel is one of the people I think of when I’m looking for internal strength. With my own new skin cancer diagnosis (mild but still requiring surgery) I can find myself feeling really negative. But then I think of women in my life who grab life by the freaking reigns and PERSIST. Rachel, I hope you see this my friend and know that I not only look up to you but I’m rallying all of the energy and sending it your way. 💪😘

01/24/2024

I love the raw moments this family allows me to document. I’ve photographed them for several years and that lasting relationship is such a gift. 🎁

01/21/2024

01/17/2024

I love this sweet moment, in between shots, heading back to my bag. This is why I never stop looking, there is always something to see.

12/18/2023

A few more of my favorite moments from Saturday’s Vintage Sessions at the Holiday market.

I don’t say this out loud very often but it’s been a dream of mine since graduate school to have a brick-and-mortar space on a main street. I place where I could sell my art prints, display my conceptual projects, invite clients to sit for portraits, make prints and host events. A place where people could pop in for tea or just to chat. Here’s the thing though, being a mother has taught me that time moves at the speed of light at a snail’s pace. Do you know what I mean? I dream of the day when I have my own space and a sign on the street and regulars who visit but I also soak up the moments of dropping off my kids at preschool and watching dance classes and making paper snowflakes at the kitchen table. Whoever said we can have it all was not a mother. And I’m starting to be okay with compromising and meeting myself where I am, not where I wish I was. In 2024 my goal is to put down some but not all roots in a location. If it doesn’t happen, I won’t beat myself up about it because time is fluid and Mother Nature doesn’t know the date. I’ll just keep rolling forward without burning myself out.

Cheers to big dreams while also being present—to acknowledging that hustle culture isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and that slowly working towards a big goal can be rewarding too.

Okay I’m sounding like a life-coach now… 🤷🏻‍♀️
Rolling with it.

Hey maybe that will be my 2024 mantra…ROLLING WITH IT. 😛🫶

12/14/2023

There are still a few spots left for the winter market Portrait Pop-Up! Snag your spot in the bio or just wander in! Saturday 11-3. 41 South Main St, Ipswich.