Capturing realistic visions that only reveal the smallest of details shows more to the eye than the naked eye can even bear to see. Through the lens of a camera, it’s like you began to see a whole new world underneath your feet.

As a little girl I remember my mom saying things like, “Oh, look at how pretty those flowers are,” or she would also say, “Wow, the sky looks beautiful tonight!” I never truly saw the beauty in those things, until I became more and more fascinated with photography. Whenever you start to notice things from a whole new perspective, you’ll start to see all the various details, color, and light in a new way.  Everywhere I go I can see more than one image, instead I see multiple photo ops, meaning I can go to the park and see a little boy swinging on a swing, and I’ll think of how perfect the light is falling on the boy’s face or how he’s showing so much character in his facial expressions. Before I would only see the obvious: a little boy swinging on a swing; nothing more than that.

I love photography for many reasons. For one, it allows me to open up to several opportunities in my life, as well as being able to express my thoughts in a way that people can see. Believe it or not, before I got into photography, I would see a tree full of fall colors, walk by a beautiful patch of flowers, look at the sunset going down every evening, see someone’s face with tons of character, and honestly, I did not pay attention to those details. Now, I will be eating in a restaurant and see someone sitting by the window, and think “wow, look at the perfect light on their face. That would make a perfect picture.” I feel like a veil was lifted and I see what I was missing for all those years before. This is one of my many passions, and it’s something I that never leaves my mind. Other reasons why I love photography is because of the artistic freedom that it gives me, I am able to tell a story through my pictures, I love that it’s a journey that travels with you, and most of all I love the emotions it stirs up in people when they look at photos. Photography has changed how the world sees me and how I see the world.