Photo Profile: Christina Spade

Photography to me is something that can never be replaced.

Walking through life I have never had that divine moment or direction on where to go with it. I have gone through the motions, and took jobs because I needed to. Returning to school at the age of 30, I quit soon after because I didn’t have a goal, a purpose, which drove me to be ambitious. That is until photography. I have always liked taking pictures, but the last few months’ photography has become a part of me. I quit my current job, and applied to a photography studio. I study on my own, and have received a grant to go back to school. My passion for animals, nature, light, and dark, are combined into one art…photography. Now at the age of 33, I am finally starting on a path that is my very own, and it feels great!

My first camera, a Christmas gift, was a Sanyo 6MP sturdy thing that I still have. Bam! It begins! A couple of years after that I “bit the bullet” and bought a Nikon 8100. The first outing with that camera started a series of events that would place me where I‘m at today. I showed my good friend the pictures I took, and she started printing my pictures and putting them as displays at her job in the Wal-Mart photo lab. Then her department had a camera closeout and I bought my first DSLR, a Canon Rebel XS. I have been using both cameras for about a year, and one or both almost always travel with me. I photograph mostly landscapes, seascapes, animals, pretty much anything that catches my attention. I made a recent trip to Blessing, TX and met friends of my mother, now dear to me, and they gave me the encouragement that produced the confidence to push forward with photography. Now, I can’t imagine myself without a camera in tow.

In closing, I want to say it is so much fun to photograph an object that others may think is normal, and sees the beauty it could be. Photography, in my eyes, is a wonderful world of ideas waiting to be captured. I use Flickr a lot, and all the fantastic photos from around the world are simply without words. The best thing is the photographer’s personality shines in their choice of photos to be displayed.