Welcome to my journey

I am a self taught amateur photographer from Grand Rapids Michigan. I never really knew anything about photography or got serious about it until later in life in 2011. See, growing up I always had a camera in hand, but I never knew anything about photography. I remember using Kodak disposable cameras quite often for trips abroad and when I got the film back, my finger showed up in most of the shots. I was terrible! Fast forward to around 2010. I remember my parents always got the “Lake Superior Magazine” in the mail and they had these photo contests and I always loved looking at the winners’ pictures from the different categories such as landscapes, nature, and wildlife. That lit a spark in me that, to this day, still hasn’t gone out. In 2011 I went on a camping trip to the Keweenaw Peninsula in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and took pictures of sunrises, sunsets, nature, waterfalls,  and anything else that caught my eye. I had an experience with God on that trip that I’ll never forget and it was Him shouting, “I LOVE YOU!” through seeing all of His beauty through nature. So now I am continuing to pursue photography and my goal is to one day travel and do photography as a full time job.