My photography career began at the age of 12 while on safari in Africa when my brother came down with a migraine and gave me his camera for the day. As you can imagine, he never got it back. That was the beginning of a love affair with photography that has now grown into a way of life. I've always seen the world and everything in it as beautiful and interesting and enjoy passing this on to my viewers through my photographs.

My passion is to make the mundane interesting and to capture the beauty in everyday events, whether it's on my drive to work, in my back yard, at the beach, or when I'm traveling. Edward Weston said it best, "Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual."

I like to take photographs that tug at an emotion deep inside. None of my images are staged. I work to catch things as they happen or exactly as they are, in the magic of the moment. I feel lucky to capture life on film and share it with you.

Questions and custom orders welcome, please don't hesitate to email me at alysia.cotter@gmail.com
Custom "words in the sand" photographs available upon request.

Please note that the "A" on the photographs is a watermark to protect my images from being stolen or copied. It will not appear on your final print.

My work was recently purchased by the L'Auberge Hotel Spa in Del Mar:
http://www.laubergedelmar.com

and

The Mermaid Inn Restaurant - NYC - East Village
http://www.themermaidnyc.com/

My work has also been seen and mentioned on the following:

Absolutely Beautiful Things
Another Shade of Grey
Apryll Annie
Design Sponge
Designers Block
Happy Living Designs
Holy's Plate
Innumerable Goods
Made by Them
Mark Cutler Designs
Modish
Poppytalk Blog and Poppytalk Handmade
Roadside Scholar
Sfgirlbybay
Stylehive
The Shiny Squirrel

I hope you enjoy my shop and please pass on my work to your friends and family. Each picture I sell brings me that much closer to living and fulfilling my passion - to travel and photograph the world one step at a time.

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson