Welcome and Excuse the Mess

Ahhhh…My first blog post!

I’m going to come out and say it- I hate blogging! But here we are! So I thought I’d share how I came into the photographer I currently am (I say currently because it’s ever transforming).

I loved photography as a kid and teenager. Just walking around outside our house and taking pictures of everything I saw. However, I did NOT want to become a photographer. I considered myself more analytical than creative and wanted to focused on something more data based and practical… But I was convinced (partially because the course I wanted to take was being revamped and unavailable) to take photography classes in tech college. So senior year of high school that’s what I did.

And I liked it but I actually fell more in love with graphic design then I did photography during that time.

Nonetheless I continued on to learn and practice shooting and develop the technical side photography.

Throughout the last 10 years I have ebbed and flowed from loving to hating what I do. I was drawn to this type of art as a kid from a more abstract and still life observance of my surroundings. That being said portrait photography just wasn’t my passion. Don’t get me wrong I do have a fondness for it but it didn’t fulfill my creative need. It just became the practical choice to pay the bills.

I’ve realized that most of the photographs I create just fall short in my own eyes. I was seeing everything from a technical side as taught in school and less from the creative side that I enjoyed.

There were definitely times when I thought wow that’s beautiful I really enjoy this. But it seemed like the moments were few and far in between. Until recently… when I realized all the photographs that I actually love and want to share with the world are the ones that “don’t belong” on instagram or my portfolio. The ones that were imperfect but had depth. And when I started seeing that there was beauty in these photos for their own unique reason I started to love them again. And I started to realize that striving for perfection was boring me!

So here I am today, trying to step out of my comfort zone and share the rule breakers that have meaning! And falling back in love with the art and not just the job of it!

That’s it! That’s my little synopsis. Thanks for sticking around! Hopefully we’ll both be back again.