Through Tam's Eyes

I majored in Agricultural Communications at Texas Tech University.  For my curriculum, I needed to take a film black and white photography class at South Plains, in Levelland, Texas.  From the moment my father-in-law allowed me to borrow his old, completely manual, Minolta, I fell in love with the art.

In 2002, for about a year or so, I worked in a studio setting.  In my photography class, I learned the rule of thirds and how to compose a picture to make it speak to the looker.  In the studio, all of my studies were thrown out of the window.  I was told to “center, center, center EVERYTHING.”  I was treated like a “dime a dozen” and after a year, I quit that job.  Because of my experience there, I stopped taking pictures of people and started working on nature and objects again.

I currently own a manual Minolta (my father-in-law gave me the one I learned on), a completely auto SLR Nikon, and now a DSLR – the Nikon D40X.  I have decided to start taking people photography again and am throwing out everything that studio taught me.  I am currently trying to find my style again.

Join me for my journey to find “me” again.  Look at the world from a different perspective.  Take a look through my eyes.