03/11/2020
Hello everyone,
I wanted to thank everyone who has managed to follow, like, and even share my photography page. It truly means a lot to me and makes me so happy. I wanted to share a little bit more information about me and about my love for photography, along with why I quit what I love doing so much...
My love for photography started when I was a freshman in high school. I remember signing up for classes and having to choose an elective. So obviously I took photography. My first year photography teacher was truly one of the best teachers I had, she taught me the different ways I could make my photos more unique, she loved my work, she taught me how to love something I was just learning so quickly. Because of this teacher I continued taking photography freshman year through senior year.
My parents encouraged my love for photography, they purchased my very first camera. (A Canon Rebel EOS T3!!!) Of course the moment I got that camera I couldn't put it down. I was thrilled and so exited to see where I could go with the camera and to show it off too all my friends and my photography teacher at school.
My images would always get displayed in art shows or even the display cases in the stairway hall. A bunch of people loved my work and I even got told I have an eye for photography.
Of course getting so many comments about my work and so forth I wanted to pruse a career in photography. I wanted to become like my cousin, Autumn and take these amazing pictures, I wanted to even be the photographer at NFL, College Football, College Basketball, and so many other events. I wanted to be something amazing with my work but all that changed so quickly.
That dream of mine quickly changed my senior year in high-school. My heart was shattered. The teacher I had my senior year crushed my dreams and told me that I would never amount to any famous photographer because my images we not amazing, they were not great, they were nothing, and not even looking at... That killed me and hurt me so badly. So, I gave up, I stopped event trying anymore, and the rest of the year I would just turn in photos that I didn't even try to make worth looking at. Most times I would take a thousand pictures of the same object but I'd just take one single image, regardless if it was blurry or just not good enough. I even remember coming home that day she told me all of that and I threw away each and every single one of my photos I worked so hard on, even the ones from the beginning. I remember getting out my class ring and never wearing it again because I got a camera put on it because I had dreams of making photography into something more than just a hobby but something I can do for the rest of my life, a career. I hated myself and started hating the one thing I loved so much. I threw it away like it never happened. I put my camera away and never touched it, for years I did not touch my camera.
Just recently I started working at "The Habitat Store" and started working on the "E-Store." Which is their website to post pictures of items they have in the store that are ready to purchase over the website or even to come into the store to see. I was just taking the photos on my iPhone but I was getting tired of using so much storage on my phone so I got my camera out and brought it to work. I started getting this very familiar feeling inside me again, the same exact feeling I got when I first got my camera years ago. That weekend I went outside with the pups and Colin to take some photos. ( Album is already posted under "Cap & Ava") I posted them to my personal page and I received so many positive comment and so much more.
So, I ended up creating this page. I created this to start something that I once loved and making it into something more than just a hobby but maybe some day a career.
After all of this I can truly say how disappointed I am in myself for letting this talent of mine go all because I let a teacher get to me... I let her harsh words put me down so much but now that is all in the past and now I am here.. I am going to continue to do what I love and I will not listen to the negative words people have to say about my work.
So again thank you all for your support and love.
It means the absolute world to me.
Much love,
Madison Simmons ❤️
