I am a sentimental person by nature. I have always enjoyed keeping scrapbooks...and in fact, after two years of dating and eight years of marriage continue to carry, in my wallet, my husband's business card that he gave me at the end of our first (blind!) date with his home phone number on the back. Remembering a moment in time means everything to me.
Surprisingly (given my sentimental urges), while I have always had an appreciation for photography, it was not an interest I pursued until about two years ago. When I started to blog following the adoption of our daughter, I was immediately drawn to those blogs with pretty pictures...and I decided I wanted to learn how to take pretty pictures too. When our point and shoot met an untimely demise in a collision with a leaking sippy cup of apple juice, I convinced my husband to upgrade to a dSLR...and thus began the obsession!
I still consider myself a novice...with a lot to learn...but my enthusiasm continues to grow as my knowledge of photography increases. I am thrilled to be involved with this group...and am constantly learning from them...but mostly, I take a lot of satisfaction that my daughter and our family will one day be able to look back at this moment in time...and "remember when." That truly does mean everything.