My Photographic Journey

Its always fun to look back and see where you started.  I always pull out old photo albums to look at photos, 1 because I love to see old pics and 2 its fun to see how much I have grown.

My journey started as a child.  I was in a family full of people who loved to take lots of photos, which I think influenced me just a bit.  As a child I remember having several different cameras.  I remember having the old disc camera.  Here is an example of how you got your negatives.

Then I had a 110 camera.  For those that don't remember those, your film came like this.



I also used my moms 35mm Film Pentax SLR.  I used this for many many years and loved this camera.

Who remembers when you had 35mm negatives?

One of the moments that I remember that stands out that I think really hooked me on photography was when I was a child, my Aunt came over to take some photos of the cicadas for a class her and my mom were taking.  It was a really bad year for them, there were so many we could collect wheel barrels full.  I remember following her around while she took photos and just loving the process.  After that I was always the one taking photos at all the family event, dance recitals and just for fun.

So there began my photo journey.  Here are a few early photos (disregard the scrapbooking LOL)

 



My cat was in a lot of my photos, she was always there.  Then I started college and had to take photos for class.  Here are a few.

 

Then I started working on my photos and techniques and here are more college photos:

 

 



              (Gotta Love Commercial Photography Class)

Then I decided I really wanted to pursue portraits, and they were not the best in the beginning, but I continued to work at it and feel I have really grown over the years.

Here are a few early ones:

 

                                                                                              This is one of my all time favs

Here are a few more recent photos:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

So if you have made it this far, Thank you!  I hope you enjoyed seeing a little into my journey and its still continuing.  I feel I have a lot to share from many many years of experience and I feel I have lots to learn to continue improving my photography.  It is my passion and I truly love photographing people.

Thank you for sharing my journey this far.