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With graduation fast approaching, it seems like a senior hears the same sets of questions at least once everyday: “Are you excited to graduate?” “Are you scared of the future?” “What schools are you looking at and have been accepted to?” ..and then the big one, “What are you going to school for?”

While everyone else is talking about being nurses, math teachers, engineers, and doctors I calmly say that I would like to be a photographer.  I’m used to their reactions by now, its always something along the lines of “oh, is that realistic?” “is that a career nowadays”.  Its obvious to me that they have their reservations about my success and they question if I even have a future ahead of me, but where these doubts might affect others, they give me a reason to push onward and prove them wrong.  I know behind a camera is where I belong, I’ve felt it since a very young age.  Even on elementary school field-trips I loved photographing everything, taking multiple disposable cameras with me and taking a picture of everything, the satisfying click and then the clicking of the dial as you advance to the next photo. I loved it, I loved exploring the different functions of my family’s film camera, rewinding the film to take pictures over the exposures already made and loving the results.  I had so much joy for my new creations, my grandmother on the other hand was always dismayed that I “ruined” another set of film with pictures of my baby brother.  As cameras changed and I grew older I tried new interests, writing, cooking, and even babysitting.  I could never finish a story or journal, all my meals turned out burnt and a mess, and I loved kids but I could never find their off switch.  It was when I picked up a camera that I had that feeling, that feeling like finding a long lost friend.  In high school I took classes and found all the hidden secrets of working film and editing digital prints that I had never known before.  High School even led to my photography editor position on the school newspaper, where I admittedly took a mothering role over the equipment.  Every scuff I found on the Canon Rebel hurt, and I was harsh on those who mistreated it.  Photography classes led to art classes and I found that I loved both, but I definitely chose my favorite, it was the click of the shutter I longed for.  I liked the idea of my work moving someone, making a change.  Growing up with severe anxiety, depression, and agoraphobia led me on a mission to make a difference in life, cause a change and that’s what I was gonna do, with my camera in hand.  Videos are great and all, I watch Andrew jenks, the Kony 2012 videos, and think how they change people but lets give myself a challenge. I have one shot, one still frame to make a difference, that’s what I long to do, that’s why I want to be a photographer.  I want to make a difference, and if that means becoming a photography teacher I’ll do it.  My art teachers have made the biggest changes in my life, they’ve made their difference and when I’m doing being a “rolling stone” with my camera I’ll sit in the classroom and I’ll let the kids teach me, and I’ll give them the life lessons I’ve learned to help them as they grow in life.  That is why I’m becoming a photographer, that’s what I want to do with my life 

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