Well hi.
I’m back. The real me. Not the fake me.
Things are mixed up here in this little life of Ali but I am still a happie little girl.
This blog was originally created to show the people back home what was going on in my life while I was away in Greece. And what a wonderful job it did.
I returned home and have basically kept you (who knows if anyone reads this) updated on what's going on in my life while I am home and working/schooling.
Really what I use this as is a place to document my thoughts and how I see the world. While I am a marvelous journal writer, I find new ways to express myself via blog. I can sometimes just let my fingers type and go-go-go and then all the sudden I have written my thoughts in a completely different way then I could in a journal.
Either way I wanted to address a few things.
I have one million ideas. I am like my father that way, we rarely stick to our first initial idea, so when I decided at a young age that I would be a veterinarian who knew that it would change one hundred and fifty billion times. I like it and I don’t think I will ever stick to one job, I have far to many fun ideas going on in my head to just stick to one!
I love photography. I always have, it's something I am passionate about. My dad challenged me many years ago to a photo contest while we were vacationing in Mexico. I was amazed at how the camera would capture images and hold them. When I got home and developed 13 rolls of film, I had them all tangible, and all to myself and as far as I knew they would last forever. It's like you can capture an emotion, that even film can't capture, you can capture a memory and a feeling and an emotion. I realized that I tend to only keep memories that are photographed, I remember things from my youth that I have photos of. It is truly a passion. Almost four years ago I started a company, Ali Christine Photography. I photographed everything, from weddings to artists, to children and families. Through the years I have sifted through all of the different types and I have found my true passion in photography and I'm working on how I can create that into my permanent business.
Why and I writing all about this non-sense? I feel like you should know my intention when I claim to be a photographer. When you ask me to photograph your family/ children/ self I assume you have seen my work. I hope you aren’t just going to me because I don’t charge as much as others. I hope that this is the case. But I don't do what I do to make money. I hardly charge anything. I photograph because it is what comes natural to me. When something is going on, exciting or not, my first reaction/thought is, “where is my camera.”
While I do hope you enjoy the work I put on my blog, I don’t expect you to. I do this because I love the world around me and I love to capture it. If it is not your style then go look at one of my good friends who I feel are amazing photographers. We all have our reasons for doing the things we do.
I photograph not to be part of a club, not because I got a “big camera”, not for the money, not to make a name for myself and not to create the “perfect family photo.” I photograph because I love it and I try to capture things as I see them, messy hair, crying babies, what have you. I feel like things to remember are not how perfect that photographer got us to pose, I feel like if you remember the feeling and emotions from the day then it’s a successful trip out. When I go out with a family or a senior I go out to make new best friends.
I don’t really know why I felt like I needed to tell you all that but it was on my head. And this is my journal, and you are all snooping. So read on. Because I let you.
and I love you too.
[these were taken this weekend while hanging out with the Mittancks and making applesauce]
meet mike, and tia. {above}
josh and wes {below}
Tia is such a babe
so much more to tell you. but of course no time. enjoy.
