Seeing the world through a lens

My name is Seaason, I am 30 a something woman, with five beautiful children, and an amazing husband. I am Australian and moved to Vermont two years ago with my family. My husband is a Native Vermonter, and it didn’t take long for me to fall in love with the ever changing scenery and laid back, but at the same time, hard-working lifestyle.

My love of photography goes back to I when I was 15 years old, and living on the streets. One day, to escape the torrential rains, I ducked under the canopy of a storefront, to discover it was a Peter Lik gallery.. I was in awe! I hadn’t seen such beauty in a photograph before. I wandered around the gallery for hours. I knew, one day, I wanted to make people feel the way I was feeling right then. To make them forget the rain, and feel the beauty. Since that day, I have looked at the world differently, I see the world through a lens. And here in Vermont there is a lot to see all year round. Growing up in Australia, the daughter of a Navy officer, I have been lucky enough to have seen some breathtaking landscapes, animals and plant life, photography has been an important part of my life, it has helped me fight depression. My 4 child was born with a Hirschsprung’s disease, a congenital bowel disease, and had surgery at 2 weeks old to have a colostomy formed. Photography became a tool for sharing our journey with family and friends overseas, and it also gave me an outlet to go outside and find something pretty to focus on for a little while.

I started taking my first photos with a cheap disposable camera, buying my first digital camera, a Sony Cybershot with 2.0 megapixels in 2002, today (about 10 cameras later) I have “Delilah”, a Nikon D5200 my first DSLR with 24.1 megapixels. Today I am living my artistic dream! I am finally evoking that feeling I longed to share. If there is one thing I want people to walk away with, after seeing my images, is that there is beauty in everything not always where you expect to find it.

For more of my photos, go to https://www.facebook.com/pages/4-Seaasons- Photographics/209890445690103

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