Monkey Tree Photography

About the Photographer

I have always thoroughly enjoyed photography.

Before I could get people to sit still for me, I used to pose my dolls (Brooke Shields and Barbie, thank you very much) and pets on a bedsheet backdrop. On vacations, Dad would turn me loose to take pictures of anything I pleased, sometimes he would even let me use the "good" camera with interchangeable lenses. He was patient in teaching me how to load film, meter light, and compose a beautiful image... he led by example with the wonderful photographs that fill our volumes and volumes of family picture albums. Cameras were just part of our lives; you didn't leave home without one. You took pictures of everything, and you took lots of them.

In middle school I ventured into the world of glamour photography, borrowing mom's makeup to put on my friends, doing their hair, and posing them in front of the shower curtain in my bathroom. On our really adventurous days, we'd clip a bedsheet to the valance in my parents' office and borrow my dad's shop-light for "runway fashion photography"... multipe outfit changes and mom's high heels included! I enjoyed the production of it all, and of course the fabulous results (we'd beg Mom and Dad to take us to Eckerd to drop them off at the one-hour photo so we could see them ASAP).

After graduating from Texas A&M University, I worked in Healthcare Administration for a while and was lucky enough to be swept off my feet by a kind and handsome prince... after doing a few favors for a few people, an opportunity presented itself and Monkey Tree Photography was born. I quit my "perfectly good" job to start my own photography business from scratch. While I certainly work more hours a week than I ever did in my perfectly-good-day-job, the opportunities to spend more quality time with my family and travel around the country have been well worth the hardships.

I love what I do! I enjoy capturing the little things in images that will last lifetimes. I enjoy thinking outside the traditional photography box and working candid moments into my portraiture. Most of all, I am thankful that I'm able to work art and creativity into my "job" and interface with my clients on a personal level to assure that I'm meeting their needs. I truly appreciate the opportunity to peek inside your lives and turn fragile, fleeting moments into little vignettes of memory.

Thank you for spending this time getting to know me... I look forward to working with you!

Kasey Marsh
Monkey Tree Photography