There were two guys named Jarret and Glen at the biggest, most extravagant birthday party I’ve ever been to in my life. They have a company named Bayou Sugar and were hand rolling beignets and making gourmet snowballs. We all used to work for the same company years ago but here we were as vendors for this event doing what it takes to make our vision come to life.

I picked up a digital camera years ago to capture the milestones in my families life. I never expected what would happen next. I got obsessed, it consumed me like a fire in my bones that I couldn’t get enough of. Even today I feel like there isn’t enough time in the day to do all I want to do with my photography.

I’ve done all types of photography in the Baton Rouge area from landscape, family, newborn, wedding, maternity and senior portraits. You name it and I’ve most likely have done it. I found myself doing the same type of photography over and over again and was wondering why it wasn’t bringing me joy. Where had my passion gone? I realized the issue wasn’t the photography but it was that I wasn’t doing the type of photography that personally brings me joy and ignites that creative spark in me. There is one type of photography that does that for me. Its commercial and branding.

I’ve decided to focus solely on this niche moving forward. It’s what I love doing and it is truly what lights that passion in me like the day I first picked up the camera. Talking with Jarret and Glenn was so refreshing and confirmed this is what I need to be doing.

They have a passion for making the freshest and best beignets around (they stand up to the best I’ve had and I’ve lived in New Orleans for a decade). They have this vision of getting a food truck and getting these amazing beignets out to the masses. They are just now starting out but already have a food truck in the works and getting everything lined up to make it big time! Their company is called Bayou Sugar and you better believe I’ll be promoting them all the way.

I’m so glad I met these two men and I’m looking forward to watching them make their vision into a reality (and eating more beignets of course)!