I did it! Thanks to
Naomi Masina who is the most awesomest person ever! She is an amazing photographer who has been giving me some tips and advice on how to get started in this biz...There is a funny story surrounding my unofficial intro to her so I have to share. So since I have just started into the whole photography thing, I constantly check my friend/photographer Natalie Norton's
Picks and Kicks blog. My favorite posts are her "What's in your bag" stuff--where she interviews photographers on their photo processing, etc. Anyway, she interviewed Naomi the other week, noticed that she was from Hawaii and living here in Utah so I checked out her blog and website. Needless to say, she is an amazing photographer and I love her stuff...Robbie saw me checking out her blog and pointed out that he knew the girl on the website. I was like, "what? you know her? she's the photographer..." He told me that they were in a Physical Science study group back at BYU and that this guy Ashley (yes...a guy, not a girl) was head over heels in love with her. He thought it was pretty funny....anway, since he knew her, I decided I should try to e-mail her and tell her the scoops...as well as get tips on how I should start out, etc. There are a lot of photographers out there not willing to share, as if you were going to steal their business or something....rain on their parade...whatever..I think it's all bogus. The way I figure, if you are confident in your abilities as a photographer, there is no need to be so secretive about your work. Your work is unique and no one can recreate "your look" (which I'm still trying to nail down myself). Anyway, Naomi was that CONFIDENT, self-assured DOPE, RAD, ON-POINT photographer who was so kind and gracious enough to write me a response and answered all of my questions the very next day. Now that is totally rad in my book of special people. Because since then, I've bombarded her with even more questions, and each time she has graciously returned my e-mails SO QUICKLY. I love this girl--and we haven't even officially met in person. I really do hope that I will get to meet her sometime soon...her latest tip for me on how to enlarge my photos on blogger was so helpful. I swear I tried to figure it out for like 2 hours, and one quick e-mail to my girl and the answer was solved. bada bing...bada boom.... OKay...I promise not to bug you too much Naomi...but you gotta know that you are truly my ROCK STAR PHOTOG now!
