About

I am a photographer.  I am notoriously barefoot.  I adore dogs.  I prefer Belgian beer and chocolate.  I can identify voiceover actors with shocking accuracy.  I can crochet like nobody’s business.  I snort when I laugh.  I buy magazines just to look at the pictures.  I never forget a face.

Coming from generations of artists, both musical and visual, I inherited my artistic eye primarily from my father (a landscape and nature photographer) and my grandmothers (one a painter, the other a serious doodler).  I began my love of photography as a teenager after receiving a 35mm camera and 4 rolls of black and white film for Christmas, and experienced a renewal of this passion with the birth of my daughter in 2003.

A Southerner by birth and a Texan for almost 30 years, I have lived in Houston since 1997 with one exception – I just returned to Texas from a one year relocation to the Netherlands.

Proud member of the Professional Photographers of America and WPPI – Wedding and Portrait Photographers International.

(Image copyright 2009, Karin E. Lips Photography – http://www.karinelips.nl)