just a girl & her Nikon.: Holly's Photo Shoot

Oh Holly. How do I sum up Holly in a paragraph? Hmmm...let's see. Well for one she's beautiful, two she's one heck of a softball player (she's a pitcher), and three she's an amazing girl with a huge (i mean HUGE) personality. You never really know what Holly is going to say next. She's one of a kind that's for sure!

This was the first photo I took of Holly. We had just walked across the street and I told her to stand by the wall, apparently she thought I was going to literally shoot her (as in with a gun) because she grabbed ahold of the bricks as if she was bracing herself for something. However, after a few seconds she relaxed and smiled and ta-da! A beautiful photo of Miss Holly.

This photo was taken during one of those moments I talk about where the model is completely caught off guard. She later told me that she was scratching her leg when I took the photo. I thought her facial expression was adorably Holly which is why I love it so much.

This photo was taken out at Scotts Miracle-Gro by the pond behind Corporate. She was actually walking away because we were trying to find a good place for her to stand and she was unaware I was taking her photo. She liked this photo so much she made it her profile picture of Facebook. Thanks for the free advertisement Holly!

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I think the first time I took a photograph was in 1991 when I went to Girl Scout Camp. My grandparents had gotten me a camera for Christmas the year before but I didn't really use it until the summer. It was a black and purple Minnie Mouse film camera, I think I still have it somewhere (at least I hope I do!). Anyways, the photos turned out horridly blurry and fuzzy but I loved taking them! I have always been "the photographer" amongst my family and friends. I was the annoying friend, sister, daughter that was always saying, "oh wait! hold that pose I need to run and get my camera!" However, it wasn't until Christmas 2007 when I got my Nikon D40x that I actually began to think about photography more.

You know when your parents ask you to make a wish list for birthdays and Christmas? Well you know that one present you put way down at the bottom, the really expensive one that you know you'll probably never get but you put it on there anyways in the hopes that you may actually get it? Well my Nikon was that present. So you can imagine my reaction when I tore open the wrapping paper and saw the yellow Nikon box staring back at me! I believe I took about 200 photographs that Christmas!

Anyways back to what I was previously saying. Once I got my camera I began to think about photography more and more. I took a digital photography course at my college and it was in that class that my passion grew. I had always liked taking photographs, but now I was in love with taking photographs! I would take photographs of trees, the sky, bugs, etc. Whatever I could find that would hold still long enough for me to snap their picture. Then, on April 17th, 2008 my passion for portrait photography was born, along with my niece, Emma Jane. I took a zillion photographs of her in the hospital. And since then, I've been documenting her life, almost on a dialy basis. Then, after seeing a few photographs of a friend I took for my digital photography class, more people began asking me to take their picture. And the rest, as they say, is history!

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