About me

Hi - I’m Sherry!

I live in Madison, WI with my husband, teenage son, and two cats. We have two adult “kids” that are living their own lives and doing great at adulting. By day, I work in product development for an insurance company - it can be intense, stressful, a lot of meetings, and a very long process. I’ve been feeling like I was missing something in my life…an outlet that balanced my work with my creative side. I started noodling my love of photography, which has been a passion since high school art class. Back in the day when we used real film, dark rooms, developing trays… and now it’s all digital, editing software, etc. It’s been a learning curve for sure, but super fun - maybe even more fun!

My passion is macro photography of flowers and dew drops. Also, landscapes - sunrises, sunsets, and water - mostly Lake Michigan (check out the Portfolio page for my personal collection). As I was sifting through photos for the portfolio page, I realized that the pandemic was really the pivotal point that my love for photography bloomed again. It was therapeutic. I was struggling mentally. Long walks and turning my attention to the beauty around me brought me wonder, joy, and calmed my worry and stress. Since March 2020, I have continued to nurture this passion and I am excited to share it with you.

But wait, where does portrait photography come in? Portrait photography isn’t far removed from flowers and landscapes - it’s just a different focal point.- and especially rewarding when you capture someone’s personality! It’s the next step in my creative journey - and one that involves human interaction - which I am excited about.

Besides photography, I love to travel, music (almost all genres), antiquing, hunting for beach glass, wine & tequila, Packer games, being around people, laughing and enjoying life. My hair color typically changes with the seasons. Sometimes unexpectedly by way of a hair emergency ‘color gone wrong’, but why not? The saying LIVELOVELAUGH is a great way to sum it up!

A special thank you to my husband for supporting my crazy ideas, being a sounding board, and helping me with all the things. Also, a huge thank you and shoutout to our son (14). He never fails to amaze me. He has been very involved in this start up. From the moment that I told him about my idea, he got to work and literally propelled me into where we are today. He took my list of name ideas and said “it’s Moonrise.” Then designed my logo, helped me get this website set up, set up scheduling, made a business plan with all the things I would need (almost, but still impressive), and he even did my make up, styled me, AND took a photo shoot of me for this page (the one with my hair up and gold background)!

So, here I am - Moonrise Photography By Sherry! My service area is primarily Dane County, however, I’m also in Algoma, WI a couple of times a month. I am willing to travel outside of these areas too. I am very much looking forward to connecting with you and creating beautiful pictures!

~Sherry