I grew up in the Pacific Northwest in Washington State. I watched my grandparents as they took pictures of nature, the grandkids and brought us along to many outdoor adventures. My grandpa loved video recording all the special moments and always said “You’re going to want to watch this again some day”, while I didn’t agree when I was younger, I full heartedly agree with this now. When I was entering my teenage years, I was gifted a pink point and shoot camera and I took that thing EVERYWHERE. This is where my love for photography started. After many years of going through the phases of taking pictures of every genre under the sun, I decided on what I wanted to capture -