art is life

I’ve always had a passion for writing. I’ve written ever since I was seven. I started out with an old gray typewriter my parents set up in my bedroom. I still have all of my old work tucked away in Manila files.  As I grew up, I still longed for writing but my father bought my first camera as a teenager and fell in love with being behind the lens.

To me you can tell the same story with the lens as you can with words. The stories are painted by capturing one moment in time you will never get again. Over the years, this love got stashed away — just like those stories I kept from childhood. Ironically it was my future career in journalism that made me find the camera again and I haven’t put it down since.

I started a business called artsbyjphotgraphy.com back in 2007. It really began as just an outlet for my portrait work, then it grew into a few exhibits and then weddings. There is nothing like covering such a significant event is someone’s life. It can be scary and exciting all at once and I absolutely adore the finished product. And I’m still learning, growing and being inspired.

Both of these parts of my life, journalism and photography, are dear to my heart but only one has BECOME my heart. I owe everything I do, and have achieved, to a higher power that continues to bless me with opportunity.

self portrait