"Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph" - Matt Hardy
I started my journey as an artist through the eyes of a painter. I painted my way through life for years before I picked up a camera. I still paint and appreciate the life I create with a brush but there is something to clicking the shutter closed through a lens. I learned to see as a photographer while drawing and painting. In order to understand how to create on a canvas an artist must understand how to see. This is the difference between drawing a stick figure and a portrait. A child learns to see in 3d, learns how to touch a face through lines, and by gaining this knowledge is opened to the world of realism. By learning how to "see" I learned how to be a photographer. When I first picked up a camera it was a 35mm beautiful piece of ancient history. I composed my work through the lens and compared the print to how I would have painted the image. I noticed it was much the same. When I started wedding photography I did not set out to make a great shot, I set out to make the composition a piece of art. Every time my shutter closes it is an intention to beautify the world. Each print has a voice and my goal is to hear the voice to create pleasing pieces.
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