I actually got into photography by accident. After being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease I decided to make a YouTube channel about it to help others going through the same thing I did. Along the way I taught myself how to shoot and edit videos and realized that I really liked it! For a couple of years I was shooting with a Nikon Coolpix s3500 that I got for Christmas. Eventually I upgraded to an iPod touch #productionvalue. While working at a restaurant a customer embarrassingly found my YouTube channel and asked me if I would ever do any video work for them. I was shocked! Shooting photos or videos professionally had actually never crossed my mind, but once it did I bought my first DSLR. For about the first year I had no idea what I was doing and shot everything in auto and you could tell from the photos I took lol. But little by little I taught myself how to shoot manually, I learned composition and how to edit photos and videos and I’m still learning every day. The whole reason I wanted to start this website was because I printed out two of my photos huge and I loved seeing them on my wall and had a light bulb moment and realized that other people would probably love having my art on their wall too!