Soleil Life

My adventures in photographic art began at age 6 when my father handed me his old 35mm camera, filled with a fresh roll of film, and we set out on a walk together across the family farm in Wisconsin. Through the rolling fields of color where he grew up, my dad passed down his passion for capturing moments in the world around us. Enamored from that first shutter snap, I have been shooting in multiple formats since.

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Today, you'll typically find me silently in the background of performing arts events, capturing music, storytelling, and art lived out on stage. God has placed within me a heart for ministry, and the ability to serve in this way is something I do not take for granted. In addition to performing arts, I regularly photograph for co-ops, schools, community groups, and churches across Virginia Beach and surrounding areas. I have been honored to work with a diverse array of families, military commands, concert halls, theatre groups, and event venues. We have been an active duty, homeschooling, military family for 24 years, and have experienced life in many locations, and in many seasons -- the value of snapshots of these sacred, fast, and fleeting moments is one I know well. My photography with mothers and their babies has been featured in two dozen parenting and birth books published across the U.S., U.K., Spain, and Brazil. 

 

When not behind the lens, I work in design, and have created over 400+ unique, high quality print materials ranging from professional playbills and venue posters, to business cards, invitations, tshirts, buttons, lanyards, advertisements, 14 full yearbooks, graduation programs, high quality padded diplomas, stationary, and more.

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A love for the creative, and a heart for children, also takes me into the classroom, where I serve as a teacher of approximately 70 homeschooling students each semester in a variety of classes -- Musical Theatre, STEM, and more! Further details on classes currently offered can be found at Tinyurl.com/TeacherFrisbie 
 

Look forward to meeting you, and celebrating God's creative joy in your life!   ☼ danelle ​