Amy Wenzel Workshop Giveaway! {I Heart Faces}

So, the amazing and inspirational Amy Wenzel is doing the most extraordinary giveaway at I Heart Faces this week and my heart is soring with excitement and .... hope?! :) To be able to tell my "photography story" and have a chance to have the privilege of possibly getting to attend her upcoming workshop is completely out of this world to me and would absolutely land me in paradise! It is something I would always want to do...have a fantasy of doing...and not at all be able to afford!!!!

I am a young 21 year old mom with an incredible husband and twin 1 year old boys that keep me constantly busy and, of course, constantly snapping pictures!Photography is something I LOVE doing on the side of being a stay-at-home mom! There is so much in life just waiting...begging....to be captured forever!

Growing up through my teen years, photography was a crazy passion of mine that I played around with and dreamed over. My family never could afford a "well-to-do" camera for me so I lived with my faithful, lil', VERY well used, Cannon point and shoot that I would use to do "photo sessions" of anyone or anything that would "let" me! :) For my 17th birthday, my boyfriend (who is now my husband! ...and no it didn't have anything to do with the fact he took a dip out of his savings to make MY dream come true!!! :D lol) surprised and shocked the livin' daylights out of me with a Cannon Rebel XTI and that is when my photography began to blossom and get very excitedly "real" for me.

I do sometimes wish I could say that I had photography classes to list, degrees and big accomplishments to claim, but I don't. I have learned from reading, experimenting, getting my own experience, failing and trying again until I have gotten where I am today. I learn new things every photo shoot, every article I read, every inspirational photographer I meet and that is what I want to continue to do! To stay a constant learner. To constantly better myself at photography AND at being a photographer!

To get to capture other people's lives is a privilege, honor and a responsibility, in my eyes, that should not be taken lightly! To capture for them the best pictures to your ability that you are possibly capable of is very important to me. Who knows how or where your pictures will or may go and what impact they might make! The desire to learn more, know more, is always flaming inside of me and getting to attend this workshop would better me, challenge me, and give me a confidence booster that I know is what I really need! I wanna shoot to the stars!!! :D

I do want to spend the rest of my life capturing creative, always changing life around me and my kids' every move as they grow. I want to be able to look back on beautifully captured memories and moments that I would have else wise forgotten and I want to be able to do the same for everyone else I meet!