Chelsea Moudry is a hospitality and destination photographer based on the southern Washington coast, specializing in boutique hotels, restaurants, and the kinds of bars that have a drink waiting before you finish introducing yourself. With fifteen years behind the lens and a genuine inability to stop booking hotel rooms for fun, she photographs the feeling of a place, not just the look of it.

I would love to be the kind of professional photographer with a full bio written in third person but I got my last gig by giving a hotel owner finger guns after getting a little drunk off a mimosa flight. So let’s go.

—a photographer of fifteen years, business owner of eleven years, and definitely the photographer for your property, restaurant, or destination. This photography business started with weddings back when I was in college. After a decade of wedding photography, I moved onto photographing what I am actually truly passionate about: going out to eat, fun cocktails, and staying somewhere new for the night. Now I specialize in hospitality: photographing boutique hotels, restaurants with string lights, bars that already have a drink waiting for me when I walk through the doors, and the destinations that make people keep a Google Flights tab open at work. Oh, I also do events. :)

Here's what I'm personally into: ramen and burgers, the kind of drinks that require a cocktail menu, travel (omg travel, I’ll go anywhere), midcentury modern vibes, gold jewelry, vegan bakeries, coffee shops with tattooed baristas, short skirts and tall boots, hairstylists who know all your secrets, record stores even though a monstera plant lives inside my record player, mushrooms (what can I say, I'm a fungi), Portland leather bags specifically, maximalist press-on nails, and checker patterns always.

I believe the best photos come from genuine enthusiasm, and I'm genuinely enthusiastic about hotels, restaurants, and bars. It may seem silly to be passionate about these places but I love the feeling I get I going up a hotel elevator, I love the complimentary champagne before heading to the room, I love looking up menus before we even get to the restaurant. And I love doing this everywhere, from coastal Washington to wherever you need me next.

This isn't work I do and then go home from. It's basically just my life, which means I already understand what draws people to your doors, your tables, and your town, and keeps them coming back.

But hey, I’m not going to tell you all about myself here. If you really want to get to know me, hire me. :)