Hello and welcome!

I am Rochelle Barricklow. Wifey to my best friend of 14 years and momma to 4 great kiddos. Coffee obsessed. Lover of 90’s grunge, the ocean, gummy bears, sunsets, and ALL the pretty things. A Pacific Northwest girl for life, although I currently reside in the heart of America, also known as Ohio.

Photography started for me at age 18, when my dad bought me my first Canon Rebel film camera. However, it really grew into a passion with the birth of my children. I wanted to remember every single detail of every stage of their lives. Those pouty little lips, the dimples in the back of their chubby little hands, their toothless grins … I wanted to hear their laughter through photographs.

I wanted to be a keeper of time.

Time is our most precious and perishable possession. With each second that passes, all we are left with are fleeting memories. Babies don’t keep. Children don’t keep. Time passes by. Life keeps us so busy and the days tick by and these sweet memories get pushed far away in to our subconscious. Every now and then something will evoke this memory, like the word you just can’t find, but it’s there on the tip of your tongue.

I want to capture real, authentic moments. The stuff you’ll treasure forever. The stuff your children will look back on when they are grown with fondness and remember such fun moments and remember sweetness from their childhood.

Sometimes it’s a scent. A quick wafting of something familiar in the air that brings back a memory. You can’t quite place the smell, or the memory, but it brings a fondness upon your heart and takes you back to when you were 5. Sitting in the grass with a loved one laughing at something you can’t quite remember. You can feel the sun on your shoulders again, hear the crickets deafening chirp surrounding you and feel a sense of peace envelope you.

That is what I want to create when I am taking pictures. I want to freeze those precious memories in time for you to treasure forever. For your children to cherish when they are grown. These are the gifts of time for not only yourself, but your children and grandchildren.

I am a keeper of time.

photo credit: Cheryl Lewis Photography