EOC Week 1: My Voice

Photography is my passion. I’ve been told I have an “eye” for detail that most people don’t have. I see the little things. Photography shows how I see the world and let the world see how I see it. Sometimes I have my camera and I’m out and I just enjoy what I see. I don’t take a photo; I just enjoy it while I can. The best kind of photographs are the kind that are engraved in your mind; memories. I remember a quote from my favorite movie that inspired me to follow my dream as a traveling photographer, “Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.” You have to look for those beautiful things because of the fact they don’t ask for attention, and that’s what I love to do. I see so many people going around seeing the world at one point of view; their normal eye level. They don’t look up, they don’t look down, and they just look at what’s in front of them. That’s where I come in. I go and I take my camera, and when I have that camera in my hands I feel like something amazing will come from it, and I never disappoint. I take my camera and I go from so many different perspectives and when people look at the photos, I am constantly asked, “How did you get that?! Where is that from? Did you REALLY take that?” And it kind of offends me, it’s like, how can someone not tell where something is from? Or how can someone ask me if I took a photo that made them impressed? It’s because they don’t expect it and they don’t look around to notice certain things. The little things at that. That’s what photography means to me.

EOC Week 1: Best Customer Experience

The irony in my experience is amazing. I went to Dick’s Last Resort for my dad’s birthday one year and the whole thing about them is, is that they are supposed to be mean, sarcastic, vulgar; everything negative. That’s just how it is. We ordered drinks, our server got them. That is where is all started. My mom ordered a coke with lemon, and they brought her the coke, but no lemon. So she asks for a lemon, and the server just throws a full lemon on the table! It was excellent. My family is a very sarcastic family to begin with, so after that we all had a little fun with our server. We were yelling, getting angry, bantering back and forth and even laughing with him. The food was excellent, our server checked up on us constantly, and we had a great time: even though we were practically being yelled at. That’s the thing, they were supposed to be angry as they’re job and they followed through with it nicely. That’s the kind of experience I like, the kind where they act how they are supposed to and even provide excellent service.