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Where did the vision come from? Because it would be easy to do headshots just like everybody else,

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you know, or just kind of keep the status quo. So what drove you to

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change it up a little bit and make it different?

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So the this approach came from me being a creative person before photography. So I am 35.

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Yeah, 35. You know, after 25, you start forgetting what age you are. So yeah, I'm 35.

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Yeah, no, I've got you beat by one year on that. So you got me beat by one kid,

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I got you beat by one year. So I've always been a creative individual. My whole family is very

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blessed with creativity. My two older brothers and I, we're all drawing like nerds. We do always

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drawing Legos just and then I got into 3D graphics, which led to Photoshop, which then led to image

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manipulation. And so around middle school, I was tinkering around with Photoshop, composite editing

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and special effects and even 3D graphics too, which is way ahead of my time. And so that was

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like the foundation for what would come later, which is in high school, I discovered photography.

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And the camera to me was like this new awesome art and pencil and paper, it was a new art medium

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that I could create imagery on. And, you know, I didn't even think of myself as a photographer,

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I was taking pictures that I so that I could edit those in Photoshop and do cool stuff with them.

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And that's sort of where it started. But then fast forward about 10 years, I'm pretty deep into

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portraiture. I discovered, I love portraits, I love people, I love their stories and their unique

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beauty. And I can capture that with photography, you know, among other art forms, photography for

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me was the easiest and most immediate, you know, instead of sitting and painting for an hour, it's

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like take a picture and it's done, mostly. It was quick and it was immediate gratification. But I

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discovered portraiture. And then I think it was around 2014, my best friend and I, he said,

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hey, let's go to Comic Con. Let's do pictures at Comic Con. I was like, I never been to one. I

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never even I don't even know what that is. Like I'm a nerd. I love all things. I actually changed

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out of my Star Wars shirt just to be a little more professional. But I love Star Wars. I have

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four lightsabers. I know way too much about Lord of the Rings. I'm a huge geek through and through.

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So there's that. But that crossroads met with my photography and around 2014, 2015, when I started

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doing cosplay photo shoots, and I loved it was so fun. And every cosplay, by the way, cosplay stands

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for costume play, generally is for adults as well, where they're dressing them as a character from

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a book, a movie, an anime, a comic book, whatever. And there's also themes like you could just dress

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up as a Renaissance person or, you know, a 80s person like that could be cosplay in a sense, but

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mostly cosplay is a specific character. So anyway, cosplay photography became my specialty and still

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is and I love it. It's so fun. But each cosplay shoot is very unique because every character is

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different. So I kind of brought that into my other photo shoots, like my family sessions,

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my senior photo shoots of graduates, even like kids photos. And I started asking these questions

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like what, what do you love? What are you into? You know, mostly for seniors, this really applies

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to seniors. Awesome. What are you into? What do you love? What entertainment do you like? What are

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your goals and dreams? What's your personality? What's your style? Like all these questions I

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start gathering and that that allows me to craft a unique experience for them that captures their

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unique personality because every person is very different. And I try not to be that cookie cutter

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photographer where, okay, we, we, everyone hires me, we all need it to either one of these three

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parks. And I only do park photos. I only do sunset time. I only do these, these specific style. And

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if you hire, if you want that, you hire me. There's nothing wrong with that. Most of my friends do

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that. And I do a little bit as well, but I started going beyond that equation, that cookie cutter

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and saying, all right, what awesome epic stuff could I make that's different? And it'll stand out.