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When I was in kindergarten, my dream job was to be an "artist." My parents were concerned that artists could struggle to put food on the table and would steer me down more "practical" paths. As I grew older, my dream narrowed from "artist" to "interior designer." I wanted to take my creative passions and sharp eye for color and design residential concepts that moved people - impacting moods and forging interiors as beautiful as natural exteriors was what ignited my soul. Of course, I didn't pursue this dream until after I completed Business School (the orderly and grounded foundation for a "creative soul" to fall back onto) at CU Denver, with all the achievements and recognitions that I could seize there. I continued on as top student in the interior design program at Colorado State University. I landed a dream job building a top-100 tech company in the interior design industry at the mere startup phase through to its growth and expansion phases. I headed a non-profit in Downtown Denver that filled a hole for non-existent art programs at primary schools, which also merged the equally art-hungry students with their like-minded elderly companions to achieve the same end goals. Yet, I was still always taking photography gigs on the side. I was branching into real estate photography, and before I knew it, I was organically busier with my personally photography than my full-time interior design job. I was fulfilling yet another "artist" role in myself that made me happy to the core.

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Photography has been a hobby for me as long as I can remember. I was a teenager when Apple came out with their first set of photo filters on their mobile devices, and we'd flock to their stores and play with the store displays for hours. I took my first photography class in high school. Though I didn't enjoy the teacher much, I was hooked. From then on, practicing photography became second-nature. I'd never take just one photo of a subject, and just about everything I did was documented by a photo. You wouldn't believe the hundreds of thousands of photos I have in my phone gallery at any given time. I have a constant internal pull to take "the perfect picture," and my photos have always tried to best capture the details of reality as close to the most pristine and authentic version of the scenery around me that I could replicate.

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My photography career started out with portraiture. I have taken paid side gigs of headshots, engagements and family photos for as long as I've held other paying jobs. Over the years, I have taken a number of photography classes across all subjects, with my most memorable one being an intimate small group getaway set in nature with famous Colorado landscape photographer, John Fielder. My favorite type of photography is landscape, but real estate photography brings me back to my enamored interior design roots. I choose real estate photography over interior design because I get to be on site and inside houses on a daily basis, rather than being on a computer for the majority of the time and being less hands-on with clients. I still get to witness interior residential beauty in all sorts of ways, and I still have a creative outlet that's equally, if not moreso fulfilling. I especially love being self-employed, creating meaningful relationships with my own clients and pushing my personal limits every day. My photography career fulfills me in countless ways, and I am forever grateful for the opportunities, as well as challenges, that it brings me!