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.