Creativity

I love to be creative. I like to make things, crafty things. I'm awesome with a hot glue gun! ;o) I cannot sew, I am not a painter and I cannot draw. Well, I take that back, I CAN draw, but you may not recognize the intended figure unless it's a tree, cloud or stick figure. THOSE I can handle! ;o) My Mother is ridiculously gifted in ALL of those areas!! None of it was passed on to me. LOL

My passion is photography. I love it!! As a kid I would sneak my Mom's Polaroid camera to take pictures of the clouds. I would pose my younger brothers and take silly pictures of them. They were great test subjects. I still have all of those pictures, such a great reminder of where this love began.

Fifteen years ago I started out in sports photography and found a real love for it as a job. With military moves, the job didn't last nearly as long as I would have liked, but it gave me a basis to branch out on my own. Years went by, I finished my associates degree and headed back to school for my bachelors. We moved a lot, had another baby, but I still wanted to pursue photography. Unfortunately the time was just never right, I never had the money for the equipment, the time to set it up, the nerve to follow through... until two years ago. My Dad blessed me with the start up money and off I went!

So here we are today- Moving Still Studio My FAVORITE pictures are the kids. I love children and I love working with them. My kids, thank God, love to be in front of the camera!! They are always ready to test a new pose, new lights or just goof around!

A new realm for me was automotive photography, which is completely awesome! I never thought I would get so "into it" but I really enjoy the edgy side of it. It's a little sexy but not too over the top. A friend of ours, who is a fantastic photographer and editor, showed us some of his stuff and let us tag along on one of his shoots. A new love was born!

I also do a lot of real life art; houses, flowers, places, things like that. I like to take pictures of just about everything!! My Mom has actually gotten in on the action, too! It's great to see her love for photography grow as well. We took a trip together last summer, just the two of us, and took tons of pictures; learning, teaching, photographing, talking. It was a lot of fun!

Life is what you make it. I've found so many new things in the last few years. I am still learning and I'm nowhere near done! Things I would never have stopped to photograph before are now really interesting to me. I've opened my eyes to many new things and have found myself in some really cool places, right in my own city, my own house, my own life!!

Look around you!! You don't need to wait until you're looking through the lens of the camera to to see what's right in front of you! I don't know why it took that for me, but at least I see things now! Maybe that's another reason why I started this blog. As I said, I love to be creative!