What if someone offered you your absolute dream job? Like if you could pick anything in the world…and money didn’t matter. What if it was there at your fingertips and actually coming true? Would you jump headfirst in? Would you hesitate for a moment-and pinch yourself to see if it was real?
Well here I am. Jumping headfirst into my absolute dream job. I fell in love with photography when I was 18. It was an unexpected romance. Of course like many people the idea of photography was always intriguing. But it wasn’t until I came across a photographer from Southern California that something was ignited in me that I could have never predicted. I remember looking at these pictures and just falling in love. It was like nothing I had ever seen before. He took a wedding day and created a masterpiece. It was art. It told the story through beauty and creativity. It was more than just pictures on a wedding day- it was capturing the feel for the day. Capturing the greatest love story and one of the most important day of people’s lives on a canvas of a lens. I loved it. It clicked for me. I began to regularly go to this site and found other photographers that I loved. I knew I was supposed to do that. It was my heartbeat and it was deep in me.
For a while it was just dream. I didn’t know what to do. Where to start. I didn’t know anything about cameras and I never had any extra money to start pursuing it. I just prayed about it. I felt this creativity building up inside me with nowhere to go. Until just recently, doors began to open. Door after door opened until I found myself standing there with a camera taking pictures of a wedding. Ah! It’s amazing. Sometimes I have to step back and breathe. It’s just all fallen into place so naturally and so quickly. It seems like it’s just supposed to happen. I’m supposed to do this. It can be nerve racking at times because I have to risk. I have to follow something that for so long was just a dream and now is actually a reality. That can be a scary thing. But everything is telling me that this is right. I feel peace. I feel joy. I’m excited for the future. I’m excited for the vision and the opportunity to express what’s deep in my heart. I’m not exactly sure where God will take me or my business next. But I have given myself to him completely from day one and he has gotten me this far.
Here I am. Living my dream come true. To give my heart completely…and to be vulnerable. I’m excited to share this journey with you!