Photography
I thrive on challenge and taking the best images I can even when it is something new. I will stand for hours even when my body aches and cries for me to get off hard ground, slip the camera bag off, and the camera and take a break. I put my all into covering events even when they are new because I want to surprise everyone with my images and surprise myself.
Read MoreIt is funny to me as a photographer and traveler that while I have visited Seattle and even Photographed the Space Needle that was a block from my hotel room, I have never actually been closure to it than that.
I took my iconic image and packed in as much site seeing as I could and while I wanted to go up the Needle I never quite found the time.
Read MoreA friend recently sent me a video of a replica Weasley Wall Clock and I was entranced. So I ordered it and it came the second to last week of August. Check it out below.
Read MoreA lot of people find photography to be a very glamorous job. There is the travel, and taking pictures and doing cool things that give that impression but those things and social media doesn’t necessarily give the full impression of the reality of being a photographer.
I am talking about all the work we do, the hours we spent editing, curating galleries, answering questions, responding emails, and then obsessively checking for sales when we let the images we painstakingly took, curated, and perfected go live.
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I enter competitions for the same reason. I want to see how my work is doing, how my skills mesh with others across the globe, and see what and where I can improve. In fact winning is just a perk but the process of selecting image, titling it, debating if it can compete, and then seeing the outcome is far more rewarding.
I have been doing competitions for years, long before I had a camera even. I was an artist and in high school my art teacher pushed us and sometimes required us to submit art work to competitions locally and state wide. Yes we wanted to win but he taught us it was the critique and participation where we would learn the most. Yes, we celebrated the wins, but he ripped the bandaid off teaching us to take critiques with grace and to seek out learning opportunities while putting ourselves out there for whatever the outcome maybe.
Read MoreIt is a rare thing for me photography weddings, they are time consuming, stressful, and not my area of comfort. I do events many, many times a year but they usually involve equines in some manner not capturing a once in a lifetime lovey dovey event.
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