The Story Behind Jen’s Passion For Photography

Growing up in a suburban neighborhood in the city of Tampa Florida as a little girl I’ve always loved looking at things from nature, buildings and architecture, people you name it I enjoy admiring the things around me. But there’s only so much you can remember and that’s when I developed a passion for photography. When the memory fades the picture last forever. At age 15 I got my first camera which was a Nikon D 3500. I thought it was the greatest camera in the world because it was mine and it was my first camera. I took it everywhere I went on walks bike rides with family out with friends sometimes even to school. All I wanted to do was capture the world through the eyes of my lens. Then as I got older I began to have a deeper passion for photography nature photography. When I went out with my friends I would stop while we were walking around the mall to take pictures of flowers and trees and the environment around us. And they would always say “Jen it’s just a stupid tree” but to me it wasn’t just a tree it was beyond that. The beauty of nature just rails me in, it’s astonishing how something so beautiful was created by something beyond man. But Not everyone appreciates the natural things in the world. All my life everyone told me if I ever wanted to be someone in life I would have to go to college. Since birth my life was planned for me to go to college without a choice. Sadly, in 2018 I went off to college in the big Apple NY. I noticed in my classes that everything they were teaching me was unhelpful. I had already met the love of my life, and now I’m miles away from him which Is what I really wanted. I knew it was going to be difficult to make the decision to leave but I knew I had to do this for me and follow my heart. So I booked the first available flight to Florida and packed my bags And left at the end of the first semester. Being back in Florida I began to think about what I truly wanted to do with my life. Now that I had my bf by my side I had to really think about what to pursue. Photography was the last thing on my mind because people would tell me you don’t make a lot of money or you have to be really good to make it in that industry. Now before I didn’t have that confidence to block out their opinions, but here we are one year later. And little did I know I would soon be creating my own photography business with my sweetheart. If you have a passion just go after it. Block out the negative and build yourself off the positive. People my convince you to do one thing, but it’s up to you to Follow your heart and do what you love. Because in the end that is all that matters.