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I have always had a love for art and
people, constantly drawing and entering my work in local art
competitions during high school. But I never felt as if I could
express myself emotionally through my work. It was almost as if
my soul never quite became integrated with my art. But then I
discovered photography in early 2001. I quickly purchased my
first single lens reflex camera, an Olympus OM-2. Almost
overnight I realized that through the medium of photography I could
explore the world in a brand new way, under a different light, and
through a new eye each time I picked up my camera. Very quickly I began
making black and white photographs of normal objects taken at unusual
angles in interesting light, usually very close up. These early
pictures are important to me because they were necessary to
develop the photographic eye that I have been cultivating since I took
my first thoughtful photograph. I soon
bought black and white darkroom equipment and began to print my own photographs. This added a new level of excitement and control
to my love of photography. At that point my
passion for the craft was unparalleled to anything I'd ever been
involved with in my life. Light became my love. I began
Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in the fall of 2001 and
decided to major in photography. The school emphasizes darkroom
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more than it teaches the essentials of commercial photography, studio
portraiture, and photojournalism... practical types of photography that
would benefit me in the real world. So in 2003 I left LSU for one
semester to participate in an exchange program at Utah State University in
Logan, UT. It was there that I realized I should major in journalism
to one day pursue my goal of being a magazine photojournalist. Upon
returning to LSU, I switched my major to print journalism with a minor in
photography. While at LSU for five years I gained experience as chief staff photographer at
The
Daily Reveille (LSU newspaper) from the fall of 2004 through spring of
2005. I did an internship with InRegister magazine during
2005 as a photographer/writer. I currently keep busy with my wedding/bridal/portrait photography
throughout the year and do freelance photography for 225 Magazine
and The Platinum Record,
the local Council On Aging magazine. I became incorporated in March 2006. I am now officially
Eye Wander Photo, Inc. Also in 2006, I purchased professional video
equipment to begin shooting events and band/product promotional videos.
I have since dropped out of LSU to pursue a career in photography and
video production. I am opening a studio soon. |
