about melodee

Image by Lynsey Peterson

I am an on-location lifestyle photographer who lives and works in Southern California.

I have a 13 year old son and a 7 year old daughter. Between the three of us, we have enough eccentricities to drive a sane person crazy……just ask my husband. We share our perpetually messy home with 2 perpetually shedding and needy cats. Though my favorite place to be is my big, comfy chair, I can be bribed to leave it with ice cream…..especially if where I am going has wifi.

I love jeans and Converse, experimenting with hair color, and staying up until probably right about when your alarm goes off. I like to listen to music loudly, in the car….and I may or may not sing along, off-key, when I am alone. I compulsively research subjects that catch my interest, filling my brain with random facts about many things….it makes me pretty good at Jeopardy, but is not really good for much else.

I still watch cartoons, I love to color (I have my own box of crayons, that no one can touch but me), and have a very short attention span….which makes working with kids a perfect fit for me, but I can masquerade as a mature adult as well.  I love taking pictures almost as much as I like taking naps, but I take pictures way more often.