The day I learned that I needed to take a black and white film photography class, I was not very excited. I actually dreaded my first day of class. However, once I became acquired with photography and learned more about it, I really began to enjoy it. Instantly, the process became fascinating to me, the history and techniques were awing (the images my professor showed us are breathtaking). During the time I was just getting my feet wet, learning how to use the tools in the darkroom, I was truly struggling. However, I constantly engaged with my professor, and he worked with me one-on-one until I learned how to judge the shades or grey in my photographs myself. quickly, I advanced in the class and became neck and neck with the top student. Although, I never stopped asking questions, having long conversations with my professor and just wanting to learn more. Over the course of my second semester in the darkroom, I was the only student taught fiber printing, although, we did not get to actual process of toning the image for lack of time.
When we had a project, I always chose to base mine off of a time in my life, or a young girl's life, like my niece, and tell a story through my photographs. The first series is called "Childhood Memories." Below is an image from the series:
Then, when I began classes at Texas A&M University - Commerce, I took Introduction to Digital Media, and I continued my work on the female mind, and new worlds. For that series, I based the idea off of a story I wrote in 2010. Creating that world, sets were required to be built, and so I constructed them out of paper, painted Styrofoam, cake, chalk pastel drawings, tin foil, a small jewel. Here is an example image from the series title, "Tiger Light."
I have a passion for writing, and I plan on writing children's books and illustrating them as well. I love childhood and animals, nature and landscapes, people and travel.
