A Spring Season Journey as an Amateur Photojournalist

In the spring of 2011, I was contacted by an editor from Holmdel Patch.com, who stumbled upon some of my spring images I had available on my website and took at Holmdel Park the year before. She asked me if I would be interested in sharing these images with their readers and include a how-to article offering some basic photography tips.

Digital cameras were becoming widely popular and I was one of those people who not only embraced this new digital photography hobby, I became very passionate about photography and ended up taking an online photography class through the local community college in 2008.

Having the opportunity to do that article was something I just couldn’t say no to, even though I had no prior photo journalism experience. So I did the article and what followed was a new business relationship with the editor throughout that spring covering events in that area.

Over the next few months, I provided all the photographs for the following articles published. I was so nervous each time I arrived at an event, but when I would pull my camera out of the camera bag and threw it’s strap behind my neck it did turn into a fun day. A busy one but definitely fun. It all was a wonderful learning experience. I met a lot of interesting people and interacting with a lot of the kids was great too. Memories I will always cherish.

Join me in celebrating this 10-year anniversary of an impactful milestone in my life by having a look at the articles.

In the 2 additional articles, credit went to the writers I collaborated with.

Articles:

• Mother’s Day at Holmdel Cemetery and Mausoleum
• Earth Day Celebrated at Bayonet Farm
• Over 300 People Celebrate Spring With the 32nd Annual Easter Egg Hunt at Victory Park
• Egg-cellent Eggstravaganza
• Opening Day of Trout Season, and the Fish Played Hard-to-Get
• The Cherry Trees Are Blooming in Holmdel Park. Go Take a Picture!

Additional articles:

• The Cancer Ball: Fedoras, Feathers & Fringe (Note: Tech issue, images are not currently being displayed on the available page, but can be seen in print view.)
• Enter the Rain Garden, at the Village Elementary School

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Newest Mandala Inspired Design Uploaded

My newest upload titled “Stained Glass Flower” is a unique design that was created with inspiration coming from stained glass church windows, Easter and mandalas.

This piece took a while to complete as my first few times working on it didn’t produce the results I wanted from it. Color selection was tricky too, but I do like my work to look different then what you would typically expect from things that most of us are familiar with and the Easter pastels chosen worked for me and I think finished off the piece nicely.

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