I don’t get caught in too many pictures, so I thought this one below was pretty entertaining. I set my camera’s timer on continuous, so it took about 20 pictures in a row while we were getting our annual Daigle family Christmas photo. I promise…Grace wasn’t harmed in taking of this shot (it looks like I’m being a little rough, huh? 
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The short version
In the last few years, I’ve felt the need to be creative in many ways but have truly fallen in love with photography. I can’t get enough. I read, I practice, I participated in a workshop…and it seems I can’t learn enough fast enough. I LOVE learning about , and there’s something magical to me about capturing a moment…Especially when it’s my friends and family. I have recently invested a great deal of time and effort into this hobby of mine…and it’s given me happiness I can’t even begin to explain.
I’m so excited to be photographing other people’s children recently. I’m so lucky to get to be around so many of them all the time thanks to my friends and cousins I remain very close with. Thanks for taking a look on my blog, and I hope you’ll check back with me to see my work as I blog about my life, learning, and adventures with photography.
The long version…deep breath…My love for photography
I’ll never forget Mrs. Larose at Terrebonne High School who graduated (retired) with the class of 1998. I remember feeling super special and beyond excited when she chose me as one of the lucky ones to work in the darkroom for the yearbook. To add to that excitement, my very best friend in the whole world since Kindergarten (or birth as we like to say since we were born 2 days apart) was also chosen. Kelly…you really are the best, and I miss getting to be silly with you on a regular basis.
We began learning the basics about film and how to process it. I believe we spent about 1.2 million hours in pitch black … cracking up laughing and trying to master rolling film onto a wheel. I find it so amusing that my husband spent his senior year doing the exact same thing…he really is my soul mate!
Now…don’t get me wrong here…we WERE 17, and by no means did I believe these small instances were affecting who I would be as an adult many years later. AND, we did our fair share of goofing off and missing out on all the knowledge Mrs. Larose had to offer. We still managed to learn lots about f-stops, exposure, composition, developing and processing film. It was the first time I ever used a SLR (single lens reflex) camera.
I have to say I enjoyed using the camera more than processing the pictures. We would get so frustrated, and would continue to over or underexpose the paper with the ancient light machine (i’m sure that’s not the technical term). I believe I thought Mrs. Larose could rule the world when she strolled in there one day to relieve us of our frustration and quickly looked in the machine, slapped a piece of paper down and turned the light on and off. The picture was perfect, and she said…”just use this one for the layout, …but keep trying”. To this day I feel aweful about the boys basketball layout because I was determined to not ask for help with the camera or the processing. I SO NEEDED IT!
At that point in my life, I really thought I was going to be in a profession where I would get to be creative on a daily basis, but photography never really occured to me. I really don’t think you could convince the 17-year old version of me that she would be a Geometry teacher.
At the time, film was expensive and SLR’s just weren’t as widely used as they now are with digital SLR’s. I used Sean’s mom’s SLR at our engagement party, and I was BEYOND excited to see the results. They were the most fabulous portraits of each person serving in the wedding making funny faces. Little did they know, they became their seating card at the reception…sorry guys!
