Racheal is the owner of Bella la Vita Photography and is an award-winning photographer with over 30 years of experience. Her career was born in 1997 when she started photographing her oldest daughter’s head shots for pageants. She was a stay-at-home mom and decided to take the New York Institute of Photography’s correspondence course to learn the technical side of photography. In 1997 she photographed her first wedding. She photographed weddings for over 10 years. In 2010 she made the decision to retire from weddings and focus more on portraits. She renamed and rebranded her business from Racheal’s Photography to Bella la Vita Photography (Italian for beautiful life) In November of 2020 she was blessed to be able to move her at home studio into a beautiful studio located in the heart of historic downtown Vicksburg. She specializes in photographing women, but also photographs families, children, senior portraits, corporate head shots, personal branding and more.