My name is Mercedes Santana.

I have lived in the most picturesque seaside town of Homer, Alaska for the past 8 years and I still cannot get enough of the state’s beauty.

Photography is something that I initially picked up while exploring the great outdoors. I started taking photos of the mountains and oceans around me while on hikes. This slowly turned into photographing people yet keeping my majestic mountains and oceans in the backgrounds of these portraits.

This has become not merely a hobby for me, but a profound passion that ignites my very soul. It is an art form that allows me to freeze a moment in time and capture its raw emotions, beauty, and story.