I started my love for photography at a very young age. Starting alllll the way back to Pre-K when I was in a play at Booth School in Enfield, and they gave me an old black & white Polaroid camera to take pictures during the play. And yes, I said a Polaroid camera, and not one of those colorful ones you can get at Walmart nowadays. (I am sure I have a photo of me during this play somewhere taken by Ms Angi or Ms Fern.) I remember thinking to myself, wow how cool is this?

In 2012 my Grandma Jeannie and Grandpa Don gifted me my first real camera that was all mine, I did not have to share it with anyone. That camera was a Fujifilm Finepix S-series (I still own that camera). My mom, Becky Wheeler started a Facebook page for me called “Lixi’s Lens,” and I shared my photographs on there and many of her friends followed that page for me. I took a BUNCH of nature photography and loved every minute of it.

In 2020, I decided I wanted to give dispatching a try, and at that time, I did not know I would fall in love with it. I started my career at the Eldorado Police Department as a Police/Fire Telecommunicator. Months later, I became Eldorado’s Dispatch Coordinator. I feel like I truly found my calling, and I love what I do.

Recently I started dabbling in photography again, and thought to myself why not? Why not pick the camera back up, and do what I once enjoyed doing?

So if I’m not behind my telecommunicator desk, you can catch me behind the lens capturing all these beautiful and memorable moments.