In this episode of The Best Dam Podcast, Jill sits down with Annie David, owner of Falling Rocks Photography. Annie shares how her lifestyle approach turns graduations, weddings, elopements, family reunions, and even a regular Sunday dinner into photos you will treasure for decades.

Annie explains how she helps clients plan sessions around hidden backdrops in Boulder City, Henderson, and Las Vegas, or simply shows up and documents the moment as it unfolds.

Annie also opens up about the story behind her business name, a childhood legend about a princess on the roadside falling rock signs, and how photography helped her through the loss of her mom to cancer. She talks about her free end-of-life pet sessions, free sessions for people facing a diagnosis, and her $99 themed sessions. Along the way, she and Jill talk about AI-generated fake photo locations, why a real expression beats a prompt-made portrait, Annie's first job washing dishes at a restuarant at Lake Mead, her hula hooping talent, and a lesson she learned from her mom's love of college football.

DISCUSSION

1. Lifestyle Photography for Real Life: Graduations, weddings, elopements, reunions, and relaxed family get-togethers like a weekly Sunday dinner, planned or captured as they happen.
   
   
2. Planning a Session Without the Stress: Annie's running location guide, hidden backdrops around Boulder City, Henderson, Las Vegas, and Lake Mead, and theme sessions like a Mad Hatter tea party.
   
   
3. Why Everyday Photos Matter: Annie's mom, a disposable-camera fan, and how her natural, in-the-moment photos became treasured memories.
   
   
4. AI and Photography: Fake AI-generated locations from Instagram, using AI mock-ups as a creative starting point, and why the human experience and real expressions can't be replaced.
   
   
5. The Story Behind Falling Rocks: A roadside sign, a princess legend from Colorado, and a logo that honors Annie's mom.
   
   
6. Giving Back: $99 themed sessions, free end-of-life pet sessions, free sessions for people facing a diagnosis, and volunteer photography for local events and fundraisers.
   
   
7. You Are Worth Documenting: Why to stop waiting for the perfect weight, outfit, or gathering before getting your photo taken.
   
   
8. Getting to Know Annie: A first job washing dishes at Lake Mead, studying at Fort Lewis College, hula hooping, Freida McFadden thrillers, and a lesson from her mom's Saturday football ritual.
   
   

LEARN MORE

To learn more about Falling Rocks Photography, visit https://fallingrocksphotography.com, or search "Falling Rocks Photography" on Instagram and other social platforms.

Annie offers $99 themed sessions, free end-of-life pet sessions, and free sessions for people facing a diagnosis. She invites nonprofits and organizations to reach out about event and fundraiser photography.

To learn more about the Boulder City Chamber of Commerce, visit https://bouldercitychamber.com.

KEYWORDS

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Podcast Transcript

Jill: A treat, treat, treat for us to be able to listen to and learn more about Ms. Annie David. She's a photographer with Falling Rocks Photography. Welcome, Ms. Annie.

Annie: Hi, I'm really happy to be here. Thanks for having me.

Jill: We are so excited to learn a little bit more about you. Just from what little I have read, I just find you fascinating and inspirational, and very compassionate and passionate about what it is that you do. So glad that such a perfect combination for a photographer and a creative, that skill is just so important, and so thank you so much for being here.

Annie: Thank you. That's really sweet. I appreciate it.

Jill: So share with us what it is that you do. There's so many different versions of what photographers look like. So what is it that you specialize in?

Annie: Right. So I do what I would like to call lifestyle photography. So whether that's graduations, weddings, elopements. Honestly, if you're just hanging out with some family, getting together, photos for that. Whenever people are getting together for kind of reunions, that's a big one. But honestly, photos of any big life event that you're doing or any small life event that you wanna capture, just you, yourself, being you.

Jill: I love that. I love that people forget that even just simple family get-togethers, a Sunday dinner, you know, everybody's there, what a great opportunity to capture everybody while they're there. 

You don't have to make it this big formal thing where everybody has matching outfits, and you travel 50 miles to get to some special set. This could just be very comfortable, in the moment, bringing everybody together, capturing multiple generations. Important things.

Annie: Yeah, yeah. No, and that's the biggest thing. I do both. So I can either help you plan, we go out to a certain session, Red Rock, Mount Charleston, take photos where I help you get all your outfits together, everything looks great. Or one of my favorite is, like you said, you have maybe a Sunday night dinner you guys do every week. I show up, I just hang out, and I take pictures. 

And it really captures the memories, and those are some of my favorites to do, because that's what you're gonna look back on. When you're showing your kids or you guys are getting together for another family get-together, you're gonna say, "Oh, remember our family dinners when we used to do this?" 

And you can grab those pictures and look back. One of the reasons I got into photography is I was really big about looking at photos. So my mom ended up passing from cancer and I was able to kinda go through all her stuff, and she was a big photo taker. And I remember always her having the Kodaks around. 

All the, like, disposable cameras hanging out. And so we were always printing them, going to Walgreens, getting 'em printed out, and so we had them around all the time. So after I was going through her stuff, I love seeing those memories. Just like her hanging out by the pool, her making dinner. Just her in her natural habitat. It's always nice to have those, like, nice posed ones for above the fireplace and such, but really capturing those memories I think is important, which people don't realize you can get a photographer for nowadays.

Jill: Right. I love that. You know, I would imagine there's different aspects of this business for you. What is your favorite part of it? I imagine, yes, the capturing, knowing that people are gonna view that later on, that must bring you a lot of joy. But is there some other aspect of it that really makes you happy?

Annie: Yeah, so I honestly love when I finish a session and people say how fun that session was. They really imagine it to be a different way or way more stressful, and they had a bunch of fun. Especially, like, couple sessions, a lot of guys may not wanna take photos. 

And I've gotten a lot of times, like, "Oh, that was a ton of fun. I didn't expect that." 'Cause a lot of the time, like I said, it's more lifestyle. We're moving around. We're doing stuff. You could go on a date night. And so I really like when people end up having fun and enjoying those photos, and aren't too hard on themselves when they see it 'cause they realize they were having fun and they were liking that experience. 

And then on the flip side of that, just planning it with them. Some people might want photos but not know what they want. And so I love doing theme sessions. I just recently did, like, a Mad Hatter tea party type thing.

Jill: Fun.

Annie: And so, yeah, I like seeing, like, what do you like to do? What are your activities that you're interested in, and how can we incorporate that to really make the session feel like you?

Jill: You're almost an event planner in a way, right?

Annie: A bit. No, I like it. Yeah, I love doing events too. So it all really works together.

Jill: That's awesome. And being creative like that and having that skill set, it lends itself to both areas. You have to be able to create the background and the environment in order for you to know what's gonna look good in the images. So, I can imagine you're almost setting yourself up for success because you know it's gonna look good.

Annie: Definitely, and that's another thing too. People may not have a photographer's eye, or you're not seeing things through a camera all the time. So you might not know that, oh, this little, like, corner with these colored walls on a building will make an awesome backdrop. That will look really cool. 

You're not seeing it like that, and so that's where it's helpful, where you can just say, "I want photos. This is the type of vibe I want. I like grunge, or I like nature." You can let me know that, and I'll send you recommendations, send you kind of a list of places, and then we figure that out together. And so, yeah, I think a lot of people might think doing a photo session's intimidating. You have to do a lot of planning, but really it's, I kinda just like doing this. Can we figure it out around that? 

And then we can plan from there because there's so many, especially around Vegas and Boulder City and Henderson, there's so many fun, awesome, little hidden spots that make for an awesome backdrop, even right here around the lake. So it's really fun kinda working with people and seeing their vision and being able to bring that vision to life for them.

Jill: Well, and so do you, like, keep some kind of an inventory list or something of all the different places? 'Cause I imagine you can't get in the car and just drive around. So how do you figure that out?

Annie: Yeah, so a lot of photographers will do, like, location scouting, so just free days you drive around. Some photographers will, like, share their locations, as well, on Facebook. But yeah, I keep kind of a location type guide. And so pretty much just by range of location, whether it's indoor date night, outdoors, nature, different studios as well may do different themes and such.

So I have pretty much a big location list that I continually add to. I keep one in my phone, and then I have, like, a drafted one of PDFs that I send to clients. But yeah, whenever I'm out, I'm always kinda just peeking and looking around for fun locations.

Jill: That's awesome. I can imagine that your eye, you're gonna catch something that I'm just gonna drive by, 'cause I saw garbage on the corner of that building, and I'm thinking, "Yuck." And you see the top two-thirds of it and how perfect it's gonna be. So, yeah, I don't have that photographer's eye. So I'm so glad there are professionals like yourself that do such a thing. Have you ever had a funny experience in what it is that you, in your work so far?

Annie: Yeah. So like I said, I'll have people plan and, like, kinda let me know what type of sessions they want. And so around the holidays last year, I know you'll see kind of on Instagram places to visit, different fun holiday-type backdrops. And so I had a client reach out, say they wanted a kinda holiday-themed session, so I send them some of the locations that I know, and they kind of sent me one I hadn't heard of before, and it was through kind of an Instagram carousel link. 

So I looked at the pictures on it, and I was like, "Oh, this is cool. I haven't seen this before." Started digging, started doing some more research, and I could not find this location anywhere. I also grew up in Vegas, and so I was like, "Weird I've never seen this as I've grown up, or I've never come across it." I did digging, digging. I could not find it. I went back to the Instagram to look at the comments, 'cause that's the last resource. And everyone was like, "Well, half of these are fake. Like, half of these are fake AI locations. They just, like, made the picture make it look like that."

Jill: Oh, no.

Annie: Okay. So yeah, funny experience I had was I was doing some holiday photo sessions last year and I had a client reach out and say they found a really fun location from an Instagram carousel. I looked at the location on the carousel. I don't remember seeing it even after growing up in Vegas and such. And so I did some digging on Google, and I still could not find the location. I went back to the Instagram comments, saw people commenting saying that these were kinda AI photos, these weren't real locations. 

And so I let the client know. We were able to find a location that pretty much matched hers that she saw in the AI photo, but definitely that is now a thing that's going on a little bit more, I know not just in my industry, but other industries. People will see a picture or a location, say, "This is kinda what we like. This is what we want," but it's not real and doesn't exist. So it's also kind of balancing those expectations with what can you get that's kind of not real, mixed with how can we mix this with your actual photography session.

Jill: So I would imagine you, as talented as you are, probably have the ability, though, to see examples of AI, have a client say, "Hey, I saw this. I know it's AI, but can we do something similar?" You can intensify, you can amp up the ability to take that same vibe, that same look, and do it in real life, because you've got a creative nature and the ability to also sense the humanistic element to be able to turn something AI and robotic-made into something warm and charming and real.

Annie: Yeah. On a creative aspect, I've been in kinda creative work forever. It is so helpful just working with clients to see their vision. And so even though some of these, like, AI pictures or these AI mock-ups, they're not real, it is still nice for them to get that out of their head and kind of explain what they wanna see. 'Cause not everyone has the same creative brain, and so being able to see a photo or something, like you said, then I can create from that. 

So Photoshop is amazing. If any, like, other elements need to be added that aren't real in the real world, they can be added through Photoshop. AI's helpful to kinda just see what people are talking about. A lot of people might have something in mind, don't know what it is. And so being that creative, seeing that on paper, you're like, "Okay, so we can do this." And it just helps the process move along a little bit quicker, as well as meet those expectations a little bit more. And so it definitely is beneficial in that way.

Jill: And it kinda jumpstarts the process, but it's not the answer or the solution. And I just wanna reiterate, when you've got that human touch, there's just a totally different feel about an image or a picture or the look in their face versus, you know, a robot version.

Annie: Yeah, yeah. Recently, AI photos, too, have been a lot more popular, where you, like, put in a prompt, you get a photo of yourself. And so in the photography community, people were kind of talking about like, "Oh, is this gonna affect our bookings?" And to be honest, from my perspective, I don't really think so. Like you said, a photography session is so human. It's an experience. A lot of times people were like, "Oh, that was so fun." Like, they liked hanging out with their family.

They liked spending that time with their partner. It's time you're not normally taking away from your busy life, where you are, and you're slowing down. And so aside from it being an experience, you're also, like you said, getting those real expressions. Like, you might have a type of smile that your kids know or your partner recognizes, or your hair might curl in a type of way. But the people that love you, they recognize that. And so seeing that realism, human, in those photos is so important. It's definitely fun to, like, do the AI photos of yourself and such, but it really is so much more meaningful when you can look back on a photo and you see your actual self. Everyone is very judgy of themselves in real time. Even I am. 

Whenever I take photos, I, like, wait a week or so to look at them. And so a lot of the times when people end up looking back at photos, they're like, "Oh, I remember I didn't really like them at that time, but I love them now." And that's because you're not judging yourself in the moment as much. When you're looking back at photos, you're remembering those memories. And you just feel more. And so yeah, a lot of photography is like that human connection, that feeling, that creating. 

And the process is fun. It can definitely be stressful if you're, like, getting a lot of family and such together. That's why your photographer is there to help you. But a photo session really is fun, and it's time to just step out of your busy life and take a breath and be with the people you love. Even if that is just yourself, taking time with yourself and honoring who you are in that moment is also so important.

Jill: So it's more of an intentional experience that you're just not gonna get when you click a—

Annie: Click a button and get a picture. Submit.

Jill: Yes. Yeah. I love that. Okay. So where did the name Falling Rocks come from? How did you get that?

Annie: Yeah. So definitely most photographers will, like, use their name. And when I was looking up what to name my photo session, I was looking at that. But I really got into photography for my mom. And so I, about five years ago, lost my mom to cancer, and I kind of needed something to, like, help me with my grief. And so I started getting back into photography. And it just, like, made me feel good, and just capturing moments for people also made me feel good. I was doing, like, really cheap sessions, just to kind of learn and get experience. And so figuring out a name, I remember the story my mom used to tell me. 

When she was a kid, she used to live in Colorado, and a lot of mountains, a lot of windy roads, and on the side of the roads there's a sign that either says falling rock or watch for falling rocks. And my mom as a kid used to ask her dad, like, "What is that?" And her being a kid, her dad didn't wanna freak her out, and say like, "Oh, we could get hit by a, you know, boulder. A falling rock while we're driving." And so he said, "Oh, there's a princess that comes on the side of the road, and sometimes, like, she can grant you wishes and do things for you if you ever see her. And so those signs are just letting you know, stop and, like, watch for her if you ever do see her." And so my logo also includes, like, a little princess as well 

Jill: Oh, how sweet.

Annie: With a road. But yeah, that's where it's from. So it kind of, like, honors my mom, and it's just kind of like a little fun different name as well.

Jill: I love it. Yeah. I think it's awesome. It screamed nature to me.

Annie: Yes. Yeah, I get that a lot too.

Jill: So I thought maybe that was really something that was your favorite, like to film—I mean—animals or insects or 

Annie: Yeah, I did. It is funny, I did start my kind of photography journey with taking photos of landscapes and animals. And I went to school in Colorado for college, and so that's where the mountains are gorgeous, the snow is awesome. And so I ended up just getting kind of like a bigger, more expensive lens, and I was just still taking pictures of landscapes. And I was like, "Let me actually just take pictures of some people with this one." But it did also, yeah, start with nature originally. So it connects 

Jill: That has a lot to do with that way as well. And so where did you go to school?

Annie: I went to Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado.

Jill: Oh, very good. My daughter's in Colorado Springs.

Annie: Oh, fun.

Jill: Yeah. We just came back from there.

Annie: Oh, that's nice.

Jill: All right. So as people are preparing to contact you, and they've got an idea, they've been kind of thinking about this, what do they need to do to prepare for a session? What do you want them to have prepared before they get to you?

Annie: To be honest, you really don't need to have much prepared. If you just have an idea that you wanna have a photo session, you can come to me and I can help you plan it all. If you want it to kind of move a little quicker, if you have a location in mind, if you have a date in mind, but the biggest one is pretty much how long do you wanna be taking photos for? I have different time limits of sessions, so if you let me know, I just want something really quick, I just want a few photos, or I wanna kind of go to a few different locations, that kind of helps me plan a little bit more. But you can come to me with as many details as you want or as little details as you want, and I'll help kind of get the ball rolling.

Jill: Get you to that point. Yeah. That's awesome. All right. So you are young, but I would imagine, what was your first job? Can you remember what it was you did?

Annie: Yeah. So it was actually over at Lake Mead. I was a dishwasher for the restaurant, and I think I started, like, around summer, so knowing Vegas summers, it gets so incredibly hot. And then when you're around the dishwasher, it's also, like, humid and steamy. Incredibly hard job. I still think to this day that is one of the hardest jobs I've had. It's just a lot of, like, yeah, physical and just, you really have to be a hard worker just to keep with it. Working with the cooks and the servers and everyone is great down there, and it is so fun to work on the lake. I used to go to the lake a lot as a kid. 

And so just being able to, like, work somewhere for my first job that I used to be at was, like, fun, just memory-wise. But yeah, very, very hard work kind of in the back. And so I bring that into a lot of my other jobs where I really do think, and I'm like, "Well, at least I'm not washing dishes in the heat of summer." 'Cause a lot of, perspective is everything. And so I think you can always get, like, bogged down with, like, oh, doing the same thing over and over, and you may not love it, but I always appreciate knowing I came from kinda having to wash dishes during the summer and then just being able to, like, now—

Jill: Own your own business.

Annie: Yes. And yeah, do that type of thing. It's just a fun thing to kinda see and grow.

Jill: I love it. I think that's an inspiration to being a business owner. Do you want to do that manual labor forever? Super grateful that we have people doing it.

Annie: So grateful that those people do that. But yeah, I realized I was not tough enough to do that for years and years and years on end.

Jill: Well, it was open for the next young person to come in and have that experience and learn something from it, right? Okay, so, did you grow up here in Boulder?

Annie: I moved here when I was about 11.

Jill: 11. And so you graduate from Boulder City High School?

Annie: I went to school at CSN High School, so I got that from there. But I did Boulder City from, like, seventh grade to 10th grade.

Jill: Very good. Well, congratulations. I think it takes courage to go into a college program like that and be prepped and ready to go, so I think that was wise of you because look at how much further ahead you are now.

Annie: For sure. It was nice that they offer that around here as well.

Jill: Oh, I love that. Yeah, I agree. And so what's something that people may not know about you that you need to share right here today? You know, the exclusive.

Annie: I was thinking about this, and I was like, "I don't really have anything specific."

Jill: You do. You like hula hoops.

Annie: I do, I do. So when I was thinking, I was like, nothing crazy. However, I'm really, really good at hula hooping.

Jill: I think that's a huge skill.

Annie: When I was a kid, I was like, "Oh, everyone's hula hooping." Me and my friends were hula hooping all the time. As I got older, it randomly comes up in conversation more than you'd expect. I will be like, "I'm a pretty good hula hooper." And I used to work at Touro Nevada. It was a medical college. And so we'd have, like, orientations, and sometimes we'll have, like, hula hoops just for, like, activities. And so then I was like, "No, let's do hula hoop competition." And yeah, a couple years ago I realized I'm, like, kinda better than most.

Jill: That's awesome.

Annie: And so yeah, now whenever I see it, I like to jump in, 'cause I'm like, I think I have a skill most people probably don't.

Jill: That is something I will promise you I will never be able to do. I'm sorry. So that's a fun thing.

Annie: It was such a major toy when I was a kid, and, like, I realized I don't really see them anymore nowadays.

Jill: It was a major toy. I mean, just there were those staples, you know, that we all had as kids.

But yeah, it was never something I was great at. I just can't seem to independently move my hips around.

Annie: I realize now it's, yeah, definitely like a pattern-type thing you have to do with your body. As a kid, it was, like, natural. Now I have to think about it a lot more.

Jill: I bet. Well, I had to think about it back then. Okay, so, I love to ask people, what book are you reading right now?

Annie: I'm currently reading The Teacher by Freida. I started with The Housemaid, read The Divorce. She has a solid, solid line of light thrillers, and so I've been really liking that as long as there are, like, [multiple] perspectives. I like a little surprise in my books, so those have been really fun recently.

Jill: I have not personally read one, but I have had a conversation with a couple other of our guests that also read her, so it's Freida McFadden, and people just think the world of her, and love—like you said, there's multiple things going on, and you have to kinda keep track of all of it. And, I know, I don't know if you were teasing about this, but my past guest has ADHD. And she said that—

Annie: I was just about to say, ADHD. Yeah, it's so helpful for my ADHD brain because—

Jill: Yes.

Annie: Like, it keeps me busy. When I try to read some other books it's like the single perspective is nice, but I think I just get so bored. And so her books really switch enough to where I really think it makes my ADHD brain happy, and, like, engaged.

Jill: Yeah. I absolutely agree with you, and I know that others agree with you, too. So it's not just you that needs to be kept happy.

Annie: Good to know. I was like, I feel like I just jumped on the trend of her for a minute, but I, like, fell in love with her books.

Jill: No, you have a lot of other people who believe the same thing. So what is something that your mom or dad taught you, a lesson that they taught you that you carry on with you today?

Annie: Yeah. So I'm honestly, like, a big people pleaser. And I try to sometimes come out of that, and the biggest way I can remember that is my mom was a huge football fan, loved football, but she loved college football the most. And no one else really in our family, my dad, grandparents, no one really liked football like that.

Jill: That's so funny.

Annie: It is funny, 'cause a lot of Americans love football. So yeah, she always made a joke, she's like, "Where did I go wrong with you?" Because I just didn't like football. But I also think it was one of those things where she loved it so much and wanted me to like it so much, I was like, "I'm not gonna like this." But she loved her college football, and so Saturdays is, like, the big college football day. And Saturdays were her day. It was, "You can hang out with me while we're watching football, but if the game's on, I'm gonna be watching football." Her favorite team was Oklahoma University, OU. She went to college there, so she's an alumni.

Jill: Oh, yeah.

Annie: And so she loved watching football. She had so much OU stuff around the house. And from when I was born, honestly, till when she died, I knew Saturdays are for her football. When it's football season, do not bother her. She'd make her chips and dip. And so it really teaches me just, it's okay to, like, have things that you like that maybe not everyone else around you likes and wants to do or maybe even understands why you like it. 

Like, it's okay to be your own person, kind of say, "No, I'm not gonna show up to that thing because I have this thing that I wanna do this day." And so being a people pleaser, it definitely helps me remember people will still love me and wanna be my friend and be around me even if I have my certain things I wanna do that they don't understand or agree with or love as much as I do.

Jill: Well, and it keeps you, right? That's you. That's what makes you special. You loved that about her. That is a fond memory that you will forever have. And so I have a little bit of a shared story there. My mom was an intense Dallas Cowboys fan. From the time I can remember the word football, that was what happened in our house, and if they lost, we did not eat. So my brother and I were always like, "Oh, man, those stinking Cowboys, they lost. 

We're gonna starve to death." That was when we learned how to make SpaghettiOs by ourself, right? So yeah, she would absolutely kind of take that internally and reflect that out on all of us. So I was always really happy when the Cowboys won. 

So I'm glad they've always been a good team, right? That's been a good thing for us. Okay. So I would imagine that you probably have had many experiences, many special shoots, photo shoots. Has there been one that has stood out and was very memorable for you? Have you ever had one specific one that stood out?

Annie: One special one, so honestly, I do a lot of, like, end of life animal sessions. I do them for free, so if anyone ever has, like, a diagnosis for an animal or, like, they're getting kinda older, I do those for free. And I'm a huge animal lover, so those are really important to me. And so one of them I had, she called me up and got her sessions planned, and then her mom was there as well 'cause they both love the dog, and her mom was an amputee. 

And so she kinda started talking to me, and she was talking to me about how she kind of wanted to end up doing kinda like a boudoir session for herself to kind of just represent what she's been through, who she is now. And I honestly love that. So I really love that session because I was able to kind of capture photos of the pup, which is really important, kind of get the family together, have that time for them to spend time with the dog, as well as connect with somebody else and get another session planned and talk to people about, like, what's important to them. So it was really nice for her to feel comfortable enough with me to kind of open up and say that was something she was interested in doing, and see if I would be interested. 

And I really thought that was nice and special because it can be hard to kind of want to take photos of yourself, especially if you don't feel comfortable enough in it. But everyone is so lovely how they are currently, and you'll continue to kind of grow, and so it's always nice to kind of capture who you are in the moment. So really like that.

Jill: You know, in learning a little bit more about you, that was something that I thought, "Man, this gal has got the heart for this." Because I know I'm the one that says, "Okay, well, when I lose 10 more pounds, then I'll book my session." When I gotta go get a new outfit first, 'cause nothing I have right now looks good, or, when my family all gets together, which they never do. But when they all get together. So it's all when, when, when, wait, wait, wait. And so you're missing so much of life in the wait.

Annie: Right. And I even do the same thing. As a photographer, I'll be like, "I need to have the perfect photo. I need to find the perfect area," when my favorite photos are just when I go out on a whim and go take photos. And so you are truly perfect how you are, and capturing who you are in the moment is so important, and it's gonna be so valuable, especially later on in life, that I really do encourage people to just go out and do it. 

Even if it's just with your phone, even if it's just with your friends, you do not have to. Your hair doesn't need to be done. You don't have to have your makeup. You don't need to be the perfect version of you to be worthy of taking photos of you and capturing those memories. Like, you are great how you are, so capture that.

Jill: I love that, and I'm actually gonna quote you. "You are worth documenting exactly as you are right now."

Annie: Exactly, yes.

Jill: I love that. You're so awesome. Okay. So, I would imagine that you've got specials that you run. You have a website. So how do people find out more about you?

Annie: Yeah. So I have my website, fallingrocksphotography.com. I'm also Falling Rocks Photography on all of the socials. So, follow along on Instagram. I do kind of $99 themed sessions as well as the end of life sessions I mentioned earlier for either animals. I also do diagnosis sessions for people that are free. So, if you are also kind of having a hard experience, and you are on a budget also, please reach out to me. I can work with your budget. My biggest reason for getting into this was to get people photos that they love, not necessarily become a millionaire, right?

Jill: No.

Annie: And so I just wanna make sure, as much as I can, I'm capturing those memories. So also if you're, like, another organization or a business, I've worked with Emergency Aid of Boulder City before. If you're doing an event, I love to volunteer my services to kind of just, like, take photos at a fundraiser, so.

Jill: Oh, great.

Annie: Yeah. I'm available for honestly anything and everything.

Jill: Well, we sure love you. Thank you so much. It's been so much fun getting to know you better.

Annie: It was great, it was great chatting with you. Thank you so much.

Jill: Thanks, Miss Annie.