The Photographer
I think of my photography as a look into everyday life, memories frozen and moments captured in time forever. Photography has always been an escape for me and a way to show the world what I’m passionate about, giving my audience a glimpse into the way I see life. My work is meant to make my audience stop and take a step back to just appreciate the things in life we don’t often think we take for granted, allowing them a chance to mute the hectic world and feel something they won’t soon forget.
Often times in our lives today, we are reminded of all the bad in the world, whether its images of lives that are taken or snapshots of those who are less fortunate than others. We are always being forced to feel pain and heartache, voices in our heads reminding us that this is why we can’t take life for granted. As a photographer, I make it my duty to focus on the positive things in life. I strive to give my audience an escape from all that’s wrong in the world while still trying to help them appreciate life and those around them just a little bit more. I tie these messages in with my work through milestones in our lives. From celebrating the couple who always dreamt of the day they would finally say, “I do” to the start of a family to the beginning of a new life, I aim to capture the love and joy that can be felt for years to come.
Growing up and listening to family gathered together laughing and reminiscing on the past I’d always remember hearing someone say, “I wish we had gotten pictures of that” and for me, that was what inspired me to do just that. From that day on I’ve been determined to give everyone I can a photograph from all of the special moments in their life that they never want to forget, so no one will ever have to look back on a memory and wish they had a picture of it.
The instrument is not the camera, but the photographer. There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
- Ever Arnold & Ernst Haas