Discovering passion through a lockdown
If you had asked me 8 years ago what I loved to photograph the most, I would have never said cars. When first exploring the world of photography, I was heavily influenced by the work of Annie Leibovitz, Ansel Adams, Sue Bryce, Richard Avedon and countless local photographers in the Nova Scotia area. I have always wanted to work with people, I love getting to know them and their stories, it truly was, and still is a huge joy of mine to create gorgeous portraits for my clients to keep forever.
Fast forward to March 2020 and Nova Scotia had just entered into our first lockdown due to COVID-19. I had just sent out final galleries for a boudoir session when the stay at home order first came and now my job was to stay home for what we thought would only be a two week break. Two weeks became 3 months and I was itching to get my camera out. At the time, my then-partner had been customizing his 2017 Chevrolet Silverado and that became both his project of the quarantine, and my new personal photography project. Throughout the lockdown, photographing his truck gave me a reason to bring out my camera and explore a new world of photography. It was an exciting challenge, learning how to set up the truck, the best angles to photograph it, and even the editing was a whole new ball-field. By the time restrictions lifted, we had already been in contact with a local truck group, Truckology, and we were hitting up car shows and truck meets almost weekly and photographing the different cars gave me something to look forward to when I couldn't photograph human subjects.
While automobile photography may not be my prime photographic passion, it's definitely starting to get up there. Do you have a car you want photographed? Fill out the contact form here and I would love to get in touch with you.
