12/09/2023
I'm honored to share that my image and story was selected by Sony Alpha Female for the micro grant theme "Favorite Place." What a great way to start the weekend!
Here is the story I submitted:
"I was lucky to grow up visiting Yosemite National Park every year with my family. My grandparents started camping before they had children. It became a family vacation destination once children were in the picture. I have a few cherished film photographs that my Grandfather took of my Grandmother with her Aunties. They had snowball fights, visited Jeffrey Pine, and the Native American Village of the Ahwahneechee.
My parents made Yosemite our annual summer holiday which started when I was just a baby. As a young pre-teen, my love for photography blossomed in Yosemite Valley. I was always carrying around a film point and shoot camera. It was common for me to get up before sunrise to shoot long exposures of the Merced. I skipped dinners to shoot alpine glow on Half Dome.
My husband and I were excited to share Yosemite with our son last fall, when he was 14 months old. He loved throwing rocks into the Merced and watching the ripples in the water. He found joy in picking up leaves and playing in the dirt."
