photography.

as many of you people know, i love photography.
well to be less specific, i love art. (period)
but today i had an idea to write about how i got started with it.
it all started in 5th grade.... when i got my first camera for christmas i had a kodak point and shoot. i remember being so excited about it because it had 3 megapixels. the picture i think that really started it off was this one. . the one of lindsay in the left top. i remember taking it and looking at the sky and just thinking it was so beautiful. so i kept trying to take more. and it may have been before that picture was taken, but my dad took me to the car show after i had just gotten the camera. and i took a picture of a super awesome car, and i showed it to my dad and i remember him telling me "that should be on the cover of a magazine!". oh my goodness it was such a compliment to me. i felt so good after he told me that i decided to take more. until one fateful day that kodak camera died. my brother vince said that it died because i had turned it off and on too many times, so i guess it was ok that it died...but that camera had seen so many wonderful events, such as the teddy geiger concert: , the time where we all went to a foothill game as 5th graders, , and who cold forget this? .
after that camera i got yet another kodak! this time it was 5 megapixels. woah dang. it looked a little somethin like this . it didnt last long. not even a year. but there were a couple life-changing pictures taken on that camera. they were
and
then there was my mom's camera....the other kodak. that little beauty took all my pictures in dc, and when i was all emo. ahhh good times!










then there was my olympus phase.


during my olymupus phase i was actually in a photography class, which truly helped me alot.


i love this picture so much.
at this point in time i was in high school. and photography had become a part of me. i did it regularly, and tried to do my best. and one year i got another olympus camera. the sp uz 565 or something like that. my favorite thing to do on that camera was open shutter pictures.
like this:






and now that leads me to where i am now.
here, is where i ask myself if i am really serious about this. if i really should dream to be a fashion photographer. if i really should put so much into this. if i really should consider this as the thing i do for the rest of my life.
and its here where i want to answer yes. why not continue going up? i was given the eye, and the knowledge of the camera, so why not keep going? i'm going to become the photographer of the celebrity you see on the front of vogue. i believe that if i really try, and know that anything is possible, (with the Lord's help:] ) that i will succeed. and all my dreams will be granted. and if they arent i know that i was brought this far for a reason. He's brought me this far. My parents have kept me going, and have always believed in me. and through those people, i know that my dreams are achievable, and very close to coming true. so here i am. just let me know where to go. :)

and now, here i am: