tonydonovanphotography
tonydonovanphotography
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| Member | Oct 7, 2013 (13 years) |
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Bio
As a young teenager I once climbed a tall tree with my mom’s point and shoot camera and haphazardly shot a few trees around a pond. Given we were not in the digital age, I placed the camera back in my parent’s room and forgot about the incident all together. Given my family wasn’t consistent with taking pictures, it was several months before that roll of film was developed and brought home. It happened around the time my mom had a get together with some co-workers. They had their turn going through the developed film before I did. I remember when it was my turn I was flipping through and my mom had mentioned how one of her friends picked up a picture from atop the tree and mentioned how she liked the composition. My face lit up with excitement, and thinking I was now a professional photographer, I ran that picture to the first photography competition I could find. After submitting my entry I waited patiently anticipating my prizewinning moment. As soon as the results were posted I haughtily scampered over to the posting to give it a read. Confused when I didn’t see my name at the top spot I kept searching. It was not long before I found my name at the very bottom of the list. I came in dead last! As much as I yearned for the sweet taste of victory, what I got was even better; I developed a passion for photography.
It took a few years before I could finally afford my first camera. It was around the time when I started going to university. I was studying Peace and Conflict Transformation. This had as much of an impact on my artistic vision as it did on my ethical viewpoints. Following my graduation I started working with adults living with disabilities, I married my beautiful wife and we had a child together. The three of these things together had a profound impact on me. I was humbled, and became incredibly grateful for the blessings in my life and became hyper aware of my visual surroundings. I became constantly in awe of things I used to disregard. It became my goal to document these moments exactly how I saw them and exactly how I experienced them. As many of us know, picking up a camera to snap a picture of something that interests us usually doesn’t capture the moments like we experience them. Up until this point I was entirely self-taught, but it was this passion to capture the moment that led me to pursue a mentor. Wedding photographers are notoriously good at capturing the moment, so it was an obvious choice for me to enlist in the mentorship of the very talented Winnipeg photographer, Curtis Moore. It was here that I not only learned how to understand the subtle nuances of light, I also developed a passion for documenting love stories.
I assisted in shooting several weddings in the year 2012, and in 2013 I decided to start shooting weddings on my own. What I love about shooting weddings the most is capturing the awe-inspiring moments with the added twist of being able to capture feelings and emotions. It is an amazing feeling to be able to go to work, be part of someone’s love story and then be able to see the looks on their faces when they get to see their own story captured and preserved.
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