My passion and love for photography started
when I was young. My love for photography grew and grew with every step I
took, but I never realized it. When I was younger I would run around
with my parent's camera and say "PICTURE", then in elementary school all
I want was a camera, as soon as I got one I was taking picture of
everything. The one thing that sucked was having to by new file. Then in
middle school I wanted a digital camera, which was defiantly the end
being able to take pictures without having to deal with film was great!
In high school I was taking pictures of everything. friends, family
whatever I saw I took a picture of it then my senior year I found out
that I could take a class that allowed you to work with business. You
will never guess what business it was... That's right Photography
Business they were called Komo
Photo in Radcliff, KY. For some weird reason I still never thought YES
photography is for me. I played around with their cameras and learned
how a D SLR worked and I learned how their printer worked for pictures
and how much work really goes in. I learned that I could make myself
skinner. It was so much fun but for some reason I never took it to that
level that photography was for me, I just assumed that I enjoyed taking
pictures.
I was still determined that I loved weddings, I was still looking at
wedding planning, when I was in high school. I looked at (pictures) and
told myself "I want to make wedding that look this" 5 years later, I
planned my own wedding
and loved it.
I took the step to looked for classes and business, I had the hardest
time and then I found out that my cousin was getting married, I came to
her to ask her if I could help her with her wedding and use her wedding
for the start of my business. A couple of weeks later, I came over the
night before and help her put her wedding together and I still loved it.
Then the day of her wedding, I wanted to take her picture. I took
pictures of all the little details and flowers I ran around taking
pictures of everything. It was at the end of the night that I told
myself I loved what I did but once again I didn't realize that most of
the day I did nothing but take pictures.
I went back online and looked up wedding planning courses and all of a
sudden an ad popped up for New York Institute of Photography. I looked
around the site and thought to myself maybe I could do both.
So I tried I looked for business for my wedding planning and found
nothing I was even trying to do it for free and I still found nothing
and then I decided to look for something in photography I browsed the
little internet again on photography and tried making a decision.
I was yapping and yapping to my husband about what I wanted to do like
as I always did and he gave me his look as he always does but with
support in anything I planned to do.
I took the leap to start building a portfolio. I made my craft room
into my office... Then it hit me I didn't know the first thing about
starting a business. I looked at different photographers pages and found
Katelyn
James Photography a wedding photographer in Richmond, VA. She had
everything on her site about how to take pictures of details when you
are in a location that does not provide you with
a lot to work with. She even had classes... she was the first
photographer that I found that loved teaching other and giving them the
ability to believe. After that I tried to make it my goal to be Katelyn
James but in a Vanessa Bowen way.
So it took me 23 year to understand that this is what I wanted to do.
Four different classes and several pictures later; I don't regret
anything. I love this job. I love making
people happy, I love running around and taking my passion to everyone
that gets to know me.
*I never knew that I was that into photography until I started this blog
and went back to add more thing about the things I did while growing
up. I could add more and more but then I will start thinking to myself
what was wrong with you, HOW DID YOU NOT SEE THE SIGNS!!!
