Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Realtor turned photographer


Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! 
Live the life you've imagined.


I can not say when I first knew I wanted to be a photographer but I have always had a camera as long as I can remember. Perhaps my love grew from my Dad's love of taking our pictures.  I was always fascinated by my Father's camera's I remember the one he had with the cubed flashes that would melt when they were used. and the accordion style camera he had always taking our pictures at every family gathering.  
Polaroids fascinated me, watching the clock as we'd wait patiently to rip away the paper to expose the captured moment on film taken only moments before.

I would look longingly at the camera bodies in the catalogs or store cabinets and wish I could afford such a luxury and asked my father for one may times. 

It turned out to be my Step Father who purchased a camera for himself a Canon AE 35 mm with telephoto lens, after seeing my enthusiasm, gave it to me to use to take photos of my 4 beautiful girls.  I loved that camera and wish I had known even a little bit how to use it to it's fullest potential.  I never left program mode but I  have to say it took beautiful shots. I wanted to take lessons but the girls were young and I neither had the time nor the money.  Life as it can, got in the way and I reluctantly pushed my Dream aside.

Years later, after my Father passed away he had left me some money.  I knew immediately that I would finally purchase a camera of my own and would pursue my dream of photography. Every time I take a picture I think of my Dad, how he passed on his love of capturing the best moments of our times together through pictures that last a life time.  I continue his legacy but want to take it further and become the Photographer I have always dreamed of.  Capturing moments in time. Preserving peoples memories and telling the story of their lives in photographs.  


Today it begins.
Thank you Daddy. After all these years you are still my inspiration and instrumental in helping me to reach for the stars and be ALL that I Dream I can be!!
I love you!
Donna