Dnkpix

My story...
When I was about fourteen years old I got a hold of my mother's camera. She had a little fuji film camera, I remember the first time I used it. She had asked me to take a picture of her and my father before they went out that night for a gala of some sort. I didn't care much for photography at the moment or let alone think that it was a possibility for a job one day. I thought taking p

ictures was ONLY a hobby people had to express themselves through art...or family pictures. Anyways, I took her camera and proceeded to take a picture of her and my father. The up coming week my mother printed out the picture and put it in a frame in our living room. When I saw my picture in the frame I felt a feeling I had never felt before. MY picture that I took myself was being showed in my own living room and all our guests were going to see that picture and ask who took it. I remember feeling so proud of myself. That's when I knew I wanted to feel proud like I did then over and over again. SO I then asked for a camera for my birthday. My parents got me a Canon EOS T4i Rebel with a portrait lens and a zoom lens. It was safe to say that my little sister quickly became my personal model. I used to dress her up, do her makeup, do her hair and BEG her to be my model because I just HAD to take pictures. As I grew older I then started taking pictures of my friends and family, then their friends and family. In grade eleven, I enrolled in a Focus Photo program that was held at Collège Catholique Franco-Ouest (Nepean, Ontario). It was a 4 credit program with a COOP experience that lasted a whole semester and only concentrated on photography. The year after that one was my senior year, and it was the first year they had a photography class to choose from in the class choices. FINALLY there were enough people enrolled in the class to not have it cancelled like the years before.To continue, by the time I was 16 my parents had gotten me a new camera for my birthday; a Canon EOS 70D. After my experiences with the Focus Photo program and the photography class in high school, not to mention my passion for photography I new I wanted to add to my knowledge and keep studying in that domain. With that being said, I then applied to La Cité Collégiale (Ottawa, Ontario), Algonquin College (Ottawa, Ontario) and Durham College (Toronto, Ontario) in their photography programs. I got accepted to all three colleges and was ecstatic. Needless to say I chose to study at La Cité Collégiale (Ottawa, Ontario) because I had completed all of my previous education in a french school and so I wanted to keep studying in french as a personal preference. Now, I am currently a full time photography student at La Cité Collégiale (Ottawa, Ontario) and I will be graduating in August 2017.