Hi All,

So a question I constantly get is where do I find my passion for photography. That's a question we can all ask ourselves.

"Where do you find your passion?"

For me I found my passion when I was making yearbooks in high school. I was the Editor-In-Chief of my school yearbook for two years. (and when I say I invest all my time in yearbook I AM NOT LYING) I loved the process, the designing, the writing of articles, and after learning how to work a camera I fell in love with the photography.

When I left high school and finished with my journalism path I came back to photo for a few reasons.

I had a camera
- I had this really pretty Nikon D5200 just sitting on my shelf and it was gathering dust. This camera was to new for me to let this happen. It had no more that 60,000 shutter clicks and I thought to myself "why haven't I used and abused this camera to my fullest ability?"
I am a creative person
- If you can't tell I love creating (why do you think I loved making yearbooks, that was 300 pages of things I got to create). While I was in the journalism world I found a resurgence of my love for fashion. I have always been into fashion and I am a big fan of runway and fashion photography (although I am definitely like 4 season behind in the newest fashion trends). All of these things are about creating something, and thats what I wanted to do.
Photography was cathartic
- When I was learning how to shoot I started in high on my Photojournalism staff (which worked under the yearbook). There I was mentored by many people, but I found I really enjoyed taking pictures, mainly of sports. (which is funny since I am not even close to a sports fan, but I think thats also why I was good at it) I found that when ever I was photographing a sport, didn't matter which one, I was at peace. I was calm and collected and felt like I was in my element. I wanted to feel that same way again. I wanted to have a camera in my hand an feel calm again.

When I decided to come into the world of photography I wanted to create, but that led me to what I wanted to create (which is a whole other post). My issue with picking a focus to work on was because of my passion. I had to much and I couldn't figure out where it was coming from, what focus would I love more than anything to do.

I mean look how happy I was!!!! (AND LOOK AT HOW SKINNY I WAS)

SO tell me what is your passion and ask yourself the same question. We all try different things and we evolve. I still love shooting my sports and it's still cathartic for me, but its not what my passion is anymore (to the unfortunate surprise of my sports mentor Mike McLean, who I adore). I have moved on to a completely different focus where I am not calm and collected I am frantically try not to cry. (It's a mixture of happy crying because I got the shot and sad crying because I haven't slept in 4 days)