Welcome to my blog! This blog is for a summer class that I am taking at Randolph Community College and is the first one I have ever made. I am a first year student and am going to major in portrait photography.
When I started at the school, I was dead set on majoring in photojournalism and one day working my way up to National Geographic. By about my second or third week of class I had changed my mind for one real reason, I am a homebody. I had just moved from my little hometown and house I had been in my whole life and was extremely homesick and started to think about the fact that this would be nothing compared to having a job that required a lot of traveling. Don't get me wrong I love to travel, but not more than being with my family, or even having a family of my own and being around to see it grow. And then there was also the fact that I would never be garnered a job for National Geographic. I could end up working for years just to be turned down.
So then what was I going to do. I still loved photography, but I could not spend my whole life traveling for different magazine companies. After thinking about it I thought, if I love family so much, I should work to capture pictures for families. I now love the idea of getting to work locally with families I can really get to know and as their family grows, I can be there to capture every special moment along the way.
I come so far since those first couple of weeks. I can not wait to learn everything else I will need to be a portrait major and share my progress along the way.
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