Why should something I love even matter to you?
Loving Photography
Photography has very quickly become almost my whole life. I live and breathe it. Even when I don't have my camera, I'm viewing everything around me as if through a lens. I'm always thinking, this would be a beautiful picture, a wonderful location an awesome place to make some memories. I spend so much of my free time re-investing back into myself, up-skilling, keeping up-to-date, reinventing and renewing my style and searching for new locations to use.
This all comes back to benefitting you. I strive to offer you the best service. The best storytelling experience. Images I am proud to share with you.
I distinctly remember being given a disposable camera to take with me to school camp when I was 13. 24 clicks... that's all you got. Boy was I excited when we got our first digital camera after that. I took so many photos of our pets. After that, I remember my mum gifting me a Polaroid! That was an awesome camera. Such a vintage and timeless feel to polaroids. I think I base a lot of my work now on creating that feeling in my images. Fine art, classic, timeless and vintage charm. I certainly gravitate towards dark and deep too. I love the intimate vibe a dark and moody image conjures up.
Anyway, moving on from my Polaroid days and fast forward to married life, I invested in a Canon crop-sensor DSLR knowing we wanted to have children and I wanted to document every second of their life. It didn't take me long to realise that taking it off auto mode was going to be a bit of a learning curve. I invested in myself, finding inspiration in the art of others, and used YouTube and then moved on to online courses to learn my camera and then began to work on my skills in composing beautiful photographs and utilising light. Seeing the growth in my photos over time was something that made me feel so happy because I could capture beautiful photos of my children and capture memories that really told our story, rather than quick snapshots on my phone that I could never print out and put on my wall.
My good old Canon did me strong for about 8 years before my shutter failed from takings hundreds of thousands of pictures - quite literally. The shutter count had surpassed 100,000 after it died! But the timing couldn't have been better, as I knew I was going to be starting a photography business and was going to be investing in new gear anyway... it just shifted my timeline by a few months. And so, this year, I took the leap and opened my business. I don't want to be someone who just gets "stuck" taking the same photos, time and time again! I strive to push myself to always be better than I am now. When you find something you love, it's easy to keep learning more and more, pushing the boundaries of what's technically correct to start to create artistic pieces. Continuing to invest in myself and my gear is only going to benefit you by bringing you, the best photographer I can be.
