When I started on this journey I was told that I needed to find me. My brand.. what I have to offer the world that is different then everyone else. I found this assignment to be ironic since part of this journey was about tapping into a part of myself that had been set on the back burner for so many years. I never truly thought I would be were I am today. Years ago when digital did not even exist and I was in high school. I was an intern for the photography department. I spent hours in the dark room watching images appear before me turning thoughts in my mind of how I would build my own dark room someday. Part of me still wishing I had one. We all have dreams when we are young.. few of us ever due what we truly wanted to . We find that the road we were traveling on leads you in many different directions. And somehow we leave behind our dreams, dropping bread crumbs behind us so that perhaps we may find our way back to them somehow.
In finding my way back to who I should have been , who I wanted to be..I won't lie and say it has been an easy ride. Photography is a never ending learning process. Just when you think you have it, you look back 3 months later and see that you are so much better then you were the day before. I work hard every single day to teach myself , to become better then my last shot.. to surprise myself.
Learning from others, endless tutorials , books, studying light in itself.
God has gifted me with so much in this life. When you study light and how it touches the world you begin to see things differently. Suddenly a drive down the highway is not just a destination. Its hay bales glowing in the sun, fields of nothing more then weeds bathed in the beautiful golden light. You start to see that everything in this world is beautiful with light. And when you come to that place where you do SEE IT.. you know that your road is headed in the right direction.
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