Photography by Brandi Stage Portraiture Brace for a shock: Jaimee Dorris, the polished, professional news anchor that viewers have come to know and love, doesn’t believe in perfect balance. “Life is messy, beautiful and always changing,” says the popular TV personality. “Instead of chasing balance, I focus on being rooted in what matters most: my […]
Photography by Brandi Stage Portraiture | Makeup and hair by Bria Fowlers of Elle Louise, LLC Dr. Carla J. Evers begins her day not in an office, but on the front lines of learning — greeting students and teachers in “Pirate Nation.” By about 7:30 a.m., the superintendent of the Pass Christian Public School District […]
Photography by Brandi Stage Portraiture | Makeup & hair by Bria Fowler of Elle Louise, LLC. The word quit is not in Cory Ann McGee’s vocabulary. Persistence has defined McGee from her earliest days in Pass Christian, when she ran with her dad and elder sibling, Shannon, on the beach. Never one to cut herself slack, she […]
Photography by Brandi Stage Portraiture | Hair & Makeup by Brooke Soto When Marcus Baker brought his wife, Katherine, to the Coast in March, he was fulfilling a promise. Since being displaced by the 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California, the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in the state’s history, the pair had lived in […]
Photography by Brandi Stage Portraiture | Makeup & hair by Bria Fowler of Elle Louise, LLC. What began as a retirement dream has become the business Delorise Nettles always imagined: a welcoming place where there are no strangers. Nineteen years after Nettles founded Delo’s Heavenly House of Coffee LLC in Gautier, her venture is thriving […]
Photography by Brandi Stage Portraiture ‘Girls can be surgeons, too!’ Dr. Yekaterina Karpitskaya breaks barriers while fixing broken bones After watching her first knee-replacement surgery, Dr. Yekaterina Karpitskaya was hooked. A self-described “operating room junkie” in medical school, Karpitskaya lingered after lectures in hopes that surgeons would let her watch their procedures — or even […]
Photography by Tilley Photography | Hair & makeup by Bria Fowler, Elle Louise, LLC Not everyone has enough imagination to turn four shipping containers into a dream house, but Jason and Paige Kennedy aren’t your average homeowners. The couple’s Bay St. Louis property, which was nearly seven years in the making, is an apt reflection of […]
