Although I have been doing photography since high school I have loved taking photos since I was a little girl. My mother is actually who really introduced me. She loved to collect her favorite ansel adams prints and put them on the walls and I always loved looking at all the little details in the photo and I felt like I could look at the photo and find something else to focus on every time. Now not having the outlet of a camera I still knew I wanted to create so I got into different creative paths like painting, drawing, playing music but I always came back to my love for photography and specifically black and white. I just loved the stark difference from both extremes in these photos, so my freshman year I did my first photo class and lets just say my teacher couldn't get rid of me. I knew I didn't just want to take a plain photos of families but something more. Where it was more than just smiles but real emotion you could feel through the picture.