26 months of taking pictures

14 months of developing a passion.

I want to share my photographic journey with you in pictures. I'm inspired by how a photographer can grow in so many different ways. I've grown mentally, emotionally, and in my ability to create photographs. Photography changed my life, and is still changing it, so let's see where I started and where I am now.  :)

November 2009

My first ever conceptual photograph. I took it for a competition. It's portraying Anorexia. At this point I didn't use photoshop and didn't reflect on my personal life. I guess I was just unaware of how to use feelings and deep visions to create art. This was also before I discovered my idol, Brooke Shaden.

November 2009
Created in photoscape. I was so inspired by dark art photography at this point.

May 2010

I downloaded gimp for the first time and learnt how to use layer masks. My first experimentation! Sloppy, but I was soooooo proud. I think I began to understand how powerful my dark art could potentially be.

May 2010
The first time I got really frustrated with the spaces I was using all the time. I wanted to go and experiment with things around me but didn't know how, and wasn't confident enough. 

November 2010

At this point I had discovered Brooke Shaden and finally learned how she achieved her beautifully inspiring images. Basically, textures. This was the first time I used a texture and a costume. I remember not knowing how to use textures properly so I applied this as an overlay. And the shadows are really sloppy looking. Nevertheless, I was proud of this, still am! Breaking point in my photography.

December 2010

I think this is the first time I embraced the darkness in my mind. I really wanted to portray an eerie location, feeling and I did. The editing makes me laugh really, because I am lying on a bed sheet and I just used the smudge tool to try and make it look like snow. I created the fog using a stock image...the hard way.

December 2010

I look back at this now and uhh...I think it's terrible. I was so confused editing this. Just looking back at this and knowing I could actually succeed in the editing portion makes me happy :) cause I obviously failed about a year ago.

January 2011

First picture I was really ever fully satisfied with.

April 2011.

Breaking point kind of picture. It was when I created this I found my artistic voice. I discovered how I liked portraying uncomfortable emotions and situations, in sometimes creepy and different ways. At this point I became really confident in what I was doing...not afraid to show the world who I really am. I walked through all the negative looks I got the next following weeks, proud of who I was becoming. 

July 2011.

Marks a really, really special moment in my life. I'll never forget this picture, this dress and what I felt at that time. 

November 2011

I am most proud of this picture. I am happy with every part of it, and it relates to my life so much. Just a very powerful picture for me, and made me realize nothing is impossible, and art is the most beautiful escape.

January 2012

I am so passionate about what I do. I'm learning every day. Photography is part of my every day life somehow...and it's always in my thoughts. I'm so inspired by the way you can create a moment in time. A moment in time that was only ever present in your imagination. I never want to stop...and hope you guys keep following me on this amazing journey xx