About me

Photography is the practice of a culmination of my Engineering classes. Going through my engineering classes has made me fall in love with photography and, in return, my engineering classes since they explained everything about cameras and lenses. I took my first photo class in college and was a black and white analog. I thought I was entirely out of my element. We did everything from taking the photos to developing the film and turning it in. I was also taking chemistry at the time, and we were talking about wavelengths of light. That was the first connection I had between the two. The semester after I took physics two, which covered optics, I had a lecture in my View Camera class explaining what Bokeh was. I was the only one that knew what our prof was talking about when he pulled up the Ray Diagram. By the time I got into digital photo classes, I had programming experience with data from photos in MatLab and some other Circuits classes. My photo professor helped me try to explain to the class what happens to photo files when you don't capture in 16-bit. Photography has helped me stay engaged with engineering, showing me the different applications that all my classes have. It's hard to see those applications with the courses that first, second, and even third-year students take because they are so abstract.

I was born and raised in the Seattle area. I went to High School at Kamiak. While I was there, I went to the Robotics program at Sno-Isle Skill Center in 2013-2014, then graduated Kamiak in 2015. Always will love the Pacific Northwest but decided to go somewhere very different for college. I landed at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. I’ll be Graduating in spring 2021 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Mechatronics and Photography.