How The Journey Began

Photography began as more of a hobby for me; I didn't pick up a camera one day and decide that I was a photographer right then and there. As my senior year of high school approached, I realized I still wasn't 100 percent sure about what I wanted to do with my life after graduation. However, after taking a photography class my senior year out of pure interest, I fell in love with capturing images; from that first class on, my friends and family rarely saw me without a camera near.

My love continued as I began getting "hired" by my friends to do their last-minute senior pictures for the yearbook. It was at this point I decided I wanted to go to college for photography, and I did. My first year at the University of Maine at Augusta was spent majoring in photography.

However, as it is with life, things changed. My love and passion for photography had not died-not even close, but my life outside of photography had taken a turn, but thankfully, it was for the better. My husband and I got married during my 2nd semester of college, and after that semester was over, we both wanted me to move to North Carolina with him so we could finally be physically together (he was then and still is serving in the Marine Corps). When I moved, I stayed with the same school, beginning to take online classes. Since I couldn't finish my photography degree online, I switched my major.

Just because my college degree will not say "B.A. Photography" does not mean I don't want that career in my future.

That career, I believe, has finally begun to take off. Whenever I am visiting family and friends up in Maine, I can always count on someone needing photos done; one photoshoot leads to another, most of the time, and before I know it, I've expanded my portfolio to twice its size.

I love this job. It may not be a steady one, but I love it. But what really drives me is not only my love for photography, but for the support my family, especially my husband, has given me through all of this. I hope you all will excuse my gushing, but I really do need to give my husband the credit he deserves. I know it's not always easy on him to be the bread-winner of the house, but he rarely complains, and he always, always supports me in my artist ventures. He really is my rock in all of this, even when he is thousands of miles away.

So there you have it: how this journey began in a nutshell. Please continue following! =)