From Start To Present
A little bit about me and why I love photogragraphy. Photography has always been an interest of mine since I was 16 years old. I loved seeing photos of locations, people and animals, especially ones that I had never seen before. I got my first camera when I was 18 which was a Canon, I would go out a for a walk nearly every day taking hundreds if not thousands of photos. Image selection and editing was not something I thought about at the time, so I would post everything I shot on social media. After a year or two I had to sell my camera because of my circumstances at the time. Not having a camera felt unnatural to me, like part of me was missing so I started saving as much as I could to get another camera. By the age of 22, I managed to gather enough funding to buy a Nikon kit and also took out a loan for a 50-500mm lens. This is when my passion for photography really kicked off, I started thinking more about what I was shooting and the settings I was using. Every year since, my equipment has changed and grown, my selection process and editing has been fine tuned and my knowledge about photography has increased.
I moved to Leeds at the end of 2017 to live with my fiancé. I struggled finding a job so I volunteered at the RSPCA as a photographer. After 3-4 months of photographing animals for the RSPCA to put them up for adoption, I was asked to take some photos at a dog walk event. The dog walk event went fantastically, and I gained a lot of confidence in my photography skills. The RSPCA then asked if I would be interested in being their sole photographer. Since then I have been photographing animals, events, stores and recently started fundraising photoshoots, all have been going well. Now after the huge boost of confidence and positive feedback through the RSPCA I have started my own photography business. I enjoy photography and the effect it has on people’s lives, photography/imagery is so powerful. Every emotion can be portrayed through images and I want to be a part of that.
