Sandra is a fine art photographer based in Blacksburg, Virginia, specializing in nightscape and Milky Way photography. With over 20 years as a nurse, Sandra discovered photography as a creative outlet—a way to escape the noise of daily life and reconnect with peace and stillness.

Her passion for photography began 15 years ago while living in Okinawa, Japan, where she captured the tropical scenery and tender moments of her young children. Drawn to the ocean since childhood, Sandra has always found comfort in its vastness—a calm refuge during life’s most chaotic seasons.

In 2024, a chance opportunity to join a friend capturing the solar eclipse reignited her creative spark. Within a week, she had a new camera in hand, unknowingly beginning a journey that would lead her to astrophotography. Standing beneath billions of stars, far from the fast pace of the modern world, Sandra felt the same grounding calm the ocean had once given her. Everything had come full circle.

Today, Sandra’s work blends technical skill with soulful storytelling, capturing rare glimpses of star-filled skies often hidden by light pollution, city skylines, and the fast pace of our world.

Through her art, she invites others to pause, breathe, and feel the calm wonder of the night—where the stars tell the story.