It's something I love doing with all my heart, and it’s something that I want to do for the rest of my life as a hobby and/or a career. I picked it up about five years ago, but I don’t think I had the intentions of being a photographer. It was just me wanting a simple digital camera and wanting to take picture of things around the house, my friends, and myself. Eventually I branched out to taking pictures of landscapes, and that’s when I started getting the more expensive camera, then the more expensive camera…the even more expensive camera, and then THE camera I have now. I had no idea that I’d come this far and have as much skill as I do now. (I’m not trying to toot my own horn, I promise.) [Side note, a lot of people, believe it or not, believes that the camera makes the man. No. Some of the world’s best photographers out there haven’t even touched an SLR/DSLR in their life. You can a have D3, but if you don't know what you’re doing, you’re just another person taking pictures. What IS true is that there is a point where your skill levels up so high, that it skyrockets past the level of your camera. This is the case with me, and I’m sure it is with most photographers.]Now that I’ve gotten more serious with photography, I feel as if I have to convey something in my pictures not only to everyone who looks at them, but most importantly, myself. To me, that’s the gist what photography is, less some significant other factors. When I look at my very first pictures when I first started out, honestly, they don’t mean a thing to me like they once did before. There wasn’t a message behind them. They were just simple pictures that anyone could take with a point and shoot. That’s what separates photography from everything else. I won’t sit here and tell you that every single picture that I’ve ever taken imparts a message upon you, but I do have a few pictures that do, and those just so happen to be my favorites; the ones that mean the most to me. It took me awhile to finally consider myself a “ photographer ” (for those reasons above), and even now, I tend to question myself whether I am or not. I think I often tend to stray away from the very basics time to time and get carried away. Then again (hypocrite?), I am confident in most of what I do, and it’s something that keeps me in check. Nowadays I have people coming at me left and right, wanting me to take pictures of them, their siblings, significant others, an event…the list goes on. I guess that’s something else that keeps me confident.


I hope that my camera takes me around the world.