Hi Everyone, Carly here
This is my first entry and so I'll tell you some things about myself so we can get to know each other a little better. I'm 21 years old (the big two two in a couple weeks) and I've lived in Winnipeg all my life. I became interested in photography when I was little looking through my dad's photo's and slides. There were thousands of them and I spent endless hours looking through his albums and holding up the negatives to the light to see the images clearer. My dad had his long elaborate (he can really talk an ear off) stories and for a little person I had incredible patience. I was fascinated by all the places he had been and what he had seen. Soon after my parents bought me my first film camera. It was a minolta and nothing special really but something to start off on. I took pictures literally everywhere I went and it became my little hobby. From then on and through junior high and high school photography remained one of my favorite hobbies but nothing more than that. Near graduation I thought seriously about persuing a career in photography but instead tried a year at Red River in Technical Communications (which I later discovered was actually one of the most boring careers possible for my personality - most technical communicators end up in a cubicle writing manuals and other extremely disinteresting things) and one year at U of M. After the two years I realized that I was still in the same place... I knew I had an interest in Biology but couldn't see myself making a career out of it... and I really liked taking pictures. So I looked into local photography schools and found Prairie View. I really liked how PV was exclusively a learning environment for Photographers and everyone was really friendly and welcoming when I came for my interview. I was extremely pleased when I found out that I had been accepted! I'm very excited about the program and looking forward to learning all I can but specifically about the darkroom, portrait photography and HDR.
