Dec
02
Welcome to my very first blog!
I’m so excited to launch my new website along with my first ever blog.
I will admit it, I am still quite new to photography and the camera wasn’t something I picked up a young age, not seriously anyway.
I have always loved composing photos and finding subjects to photograph since a young age but I was only ever ‘mucking around’, little did I know that one day photography would become my passion and that I would not to be able to go a day without thinking about it. I had no idea that from the day I invested in my first serious SLR that I would never look at the world through the same eyes again.
What does a photo mean to me?
First and foremost, it’s my art. Whether it be an object or an emotion – I love creating artwork with my images.
Secondly, it’s a memory. I think it’s absolutely incredible that we have the technology to be able to capture memories. We all know that time doesn’t stand still for anyone. Anyone except a camera that is.
I often hear the comment “anyone can push a button”; true indeed, but not everyone understands how to use their camera to the best of its ability and not everyone understands how light paints. Not everyone can see that special moment that sometimes only lasts a split second between loved ones.
Not only does it take a good eye, but also knowledge and skill required to capture those special moments. And we {photographers} just don’t push buttons. Apart from the time we take to shoot a session there is so much more that happens behind the scenes. Planning, emails, schedules, travel, client meet and greets, sorting through numerous images even before we start to edit them. For every hour of session time, a photographer then spends at least 3 times that post processing a session.
Each and every session I spend hours making sure I get perfect for the families/couples about to receive my images. I treat them as if they were my own. I can honestly say I put my heart into every session I take.
So I hope I have given you a little insight into why I love photography and what it means to me. It’s never ‘just a photo’, it is art and someone’s memories.
And with that, I will leave you with my own personal favorites of some of my own memories. Most will be of my own little sunshine; my little boy, and others are just personal favourites that take me back to a time and a place that I enjoy remembering in my past.
Enjoy and thank you again for visiting.
